Millionaires for Humanity advocate for wealth taxes on themselves … Hmmm… do read it!

To recover from the crisis, tax the wealth of multimillionaires like me – Development Matters (oecd-development-matters.org)

‘The business of medicine’ … The Economist talking … Read the article

Intellectual property rights’ as the foundation of ‘free’ markets is a notion difficult, intellectually, to sustain.

Read the article by Ugo Pagano

“… such reforms do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment.
Our results therefore provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy.”

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The decline of multilateralism and the substitution of bellicose rhetoric for genuine dialogue are potent threats to humankind as the limited ambitions shown for the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty at the UN in New York this month demonstrate. The structures, institutions and processes which developed following the second half of the last century served to prevent global conflict for decades, but they failed to prevent many local and regional conflicts and are now under threat as never before.

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Why is it that international organisations want to ‘fight poverty’ more than they want to look at inequality?

Inequality | Wall Street International Magazine (wsimag.com)

The most recent report of GFI on illicit financial flow in developing countries! Work to be done!

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