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An interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder of the International Society for Ecology and
Culture, regarding globalism, new world economics, and their effects on the consumerist society.
http://www.unitedearth.com.au/HNHinterview.html
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Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
The Justice and the World Economy (JWE) program provides resources and an inter-professional and
interdisciplinary forum for discussions concerning the justice of various global institutional
arrangements.
http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/globaljustice.php
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United for a Fair Economy
U.S. national, independent, nonpartisan organization concerned about the growing income, wage and
wealth inequality in the United States. Specific issues include wage inequalities and "tax
cuts for the rich".
http://www.FairEconomy.org/
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The University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP)
The UTIP is a research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in
wages and earnings and patterns of industrial changes around the world. Techniques are applied to
data from the United States, the OECD, and UNIDO, with interesting results for both developed and
developing countries.
http://utip.gov.utexas.edu
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CONVERGE project
Organization dedicated to analysis of Economic and technological regional convergence in Europe.
Provides conference descriptions, case studies, and research.
http://www.iseg.utl.pt/cisep/converge
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Capitalist Policies
Position paper that such policies lead to social and economic inequality. By Ramin Farahmandpur.
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/issues/99/10.18/view.farahmandpur.html
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Earnings Differences Between Women and Men
Analysis of the difference in earnings by working women and men in the United States from 1951
through 1999, from Facts on Working on Working Women, U.S. Department of Labor.
http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb/public/wb_pubs/wagegap2000.htm
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Poverty, Inequality and Development: Research at Cornell University
Portal to research on poverty, inequality and development at Cornell University.
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/poverty
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The Conquest of Poverty
Drawing lessons from history and economics, Hazlitt shows how the Western world has nearly
eradicated poverty. But "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
http://www.hazlitt.org/e-texts/poverty/
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IGC articles on income inequality
A collection of online articles from various organisations concerning income inequality in the US
and abroad, claiming there is a growing gap, that this is bad, and that it should be
"fixed" by government force.
http://www.igc.apc.org/globalpolicy/socecon/inequal/indexinq.htm
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The L-Curve
Graphically describes and criticizes income distribution in the United States.
http://www.davidchandler.com/lcurve/
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The New Inequality (from Boston Review)
MIT's prestigious Boston Review discusses the rise of income inequality in the United States with a
variety of economists and proposes some remedies, all along socialist lines.
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR21.6/inequality.html
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A Brief Look at Postwar U.S. Income Inequality
Census Bureau 1996 paper pointing out the sharp decline in the percentage of income of the bottom
80% of American since the late 1960's, taking the whole thirty years as a block.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/p60191.html
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Growing Income Disparity and the Middle Class Squeeze
Catholic Social Justice takes a stand against income disparity, which it says is growing fast in
the US. Includes statistics.
http://www.justpeace.org/structures/squeeze.htm
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The Income Gap
National Public Radio's John Ydstie investigates the growing disparity in real income between
Americans in this special series from Morning Edition
http://www.npr.org.//hotnews/ydstie.html
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Addressing the Extremes of Wealth and Poverty
Outlines a proposals to reduce the disparity in wealth between poor and wealthy nations and
individuals, through taxation and redistribution.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/alan.waldron/
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Closing the Wealth Gap
A speech by P. J. O'Rourke, nationally syndicated columnist and award-winning author, on income
disparity.
http://www.cato.org/speeches/sp-pjo061897.html
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China: A Shared Poverty To Uneven Wealth?
A George Washington University analysis of how economic reforms (away from socialism) have caused a
widening income gap in China, and yet raised the standards of living of the Chinese people.
http://www.gwu.edu/~econ270/Taejoon.html
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The Causes of Income Inequality
Addresses the causes of the income gap, and some proposed solutions.
http://www.ncpa.org/~ncpa/pd/economy/ecob2.html
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