Add to ORKGOne of the most contentious issues in American politics concerns the concept of the freemarket. One side touts the free market against government interference, whereas the other admits a definite role for government. However, if we use the linguistic concept of framing, it is clear that even free markets involve quite a bit of government interference. However, counter intuitively, the interference actually is for the benefitof the already wealthy. It can be characterized as a sort of reverse Robin Hoodism. This paper explores this assertion
__Abstract__ If I agree to do a job for a friend for $100, my friend and I would get very upset...
This essay investigates and ultimately rejects the claim that the United States’ comparatively heavi...
If we take a moment and observe our current societal landscape, we may be intrigued by what we find....
One of the most contentious issues in American politics concerns the concept of the freemarket. One...
The growing acceptance of neoliberal tax cuts, concessions in redistribution and increasing inequali...
What should the role of government be in regulating the economy? Through this paper the reader wil...
People who spend their lives studying economics often develop odd attitudes towards government. Econ...
The United States witnessed an increase in pre-tax inequality, a rise in the wealth-to-income ratio,...
The ideas that governments ought to operate on business principles and that citizens are no differen...
The more things change, the more they stay the same. A human activity almost as venerable as the acc...
Americans have a noted ambivalence about their relationship to government. At times, government is ...
The familiar saying “money is power” carries two meanings: one is common in the United States today;...
There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four dec...
Published as Chapter 1 in Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Every...
The rich have two defining capabilities: independence from and command over others. These make being...
__Abstract__ If I agree to do a job for a friend for $100, my friend and I would get very upset...
This essay investigates and ultimately rejects the claim that the United States’ comparatively heavi...
If we take a moment and observe our current societal landscape, we may be intrigued by what we find....
One of the most contentious issues in American politics concerns the concept of the freemarket. One...
The growing acceptance of neoliberal tax cuts, concessions in redistribution and increasing inequali...
What should the role of government be in regulating the economy? Through this paper the reader wil...
People who spend their lives studying economics often develop odd attitudes towards government. Econ...
The United States witnessed an increase in pre-tax inequality, a rise in the wealth-to-income ratio,...
The ideas that governments ought to operate on business principles and that citizens are no differen...
The more things change, the more they stay the same. A human activity almost as venerable as the acc...
Americans have a noted ambivalence about their relationship to government. At times, government is ...
The familiar saying “money is power” carries two meanings: one is common in the United States today;...
There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four dec...
Published as Chapter 1 in Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Every...
The rich have two defining capabilities: independence from and command over others. These make being...
__Abstract__ If I agree to do a job for a friend for $100, my friend and I would get very upset...
This essay investigates and ultimately rejects the claim that the United States’ comparatively heavi...
If we take a moment and observe our current societal landscape, we may be intrigued by what we find....