Tag: Greg Easterbrook
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Sonic Boom: Dramatic Global Economic Growth
Carpe Diem: Sonic Boom: Dramatic Global Economic Growth WALL STREET JOURNAL — The big idea behind [Greg Easterbrook's new book] "Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed" is that globalization—celebrated, reviled and analyzed for at least a decade now—has hardly begun. The world, Mr. Easterbrook believes, is on the verge of a period of pell-mell integration…
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Rich Man’s Burden
New York Times: Rich Man’s Burden … One of these forces is America’s income inequality, which has steadily increased since 1969. We typically think of this process as one in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Surely, that should, if anything, make upper income earners able to relax. But it turns…