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44 44 Interview with Kalle Lasn by Peter Vanham, Vancouver, Canada, March 2012.
45 45 “World Inequality Report, 2018,” https://wir2018.wid.world/files/download/wir2018-summary-english.pdf.
46 46 “How Unequal Is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980–2017,” Thomas Blanchet, Lucas Chancel, Amory Gethin, World Economic Database, April 2019, https://wid.world/document/bcg2019-full-paper/.
47 47 EU income inequality decline: Views from an income shares perspective, Zsolt Darvas, Bruegel Institute, 2018, https://www.bruegel.org/2018/07/eu-income-inequality-decline-views-from-an-income-shares-perspective/.
48 48 “Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data,” Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2016, http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/SaezZucman2016QJE.pdf.
49 49 “Share of Total Income going to the Top 1% since 1900, Within-Country Inequality in Rich Countries,” Our World in Data, October 2016, https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality.
50 50 “How America's 1% Came to Dominate Equity Ownership,” Robin Wigglesworth, Financial Times, February 2020, https://www.ft.com/content/2501e154-4789-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441.
51 51 It is nevertheless interesting to note, as Branko Milanovic has done, that while wealth inequality—driven primarily by stock ownership—is large and growing, there is no longer a true “capitalist” class as Karl Marx alleged in the 19th century. Wealthy households do get a large share of their wealth from “capital,” but not all of it: as a matter of fact, most “wealthy” people do also work for a living, having often well-paid positions in finance, legal, or medical industries.
52 52 “The American Economy Is Rigged,” Joseph Stiglitz, Scientific American, November 2018, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-american-economy-is-rigged/.
53 53 “Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century,” Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Brookings Institute, March 2017, https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/mortality-and-morbidity-in-the-21st-century/.
54 54 “Deaths of Despair, Once an American Phenomenon, Now Haunt Britain,” The Economist, May 2019, https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/05/16/deaths-of-despair-once-an-american-phenomenon-now-haunt-britain.
55 55 “Variation in COVID-19 Hospitalizations and Deaths Across New York City Boroughs,” Journal of the American Medical Association, April 2020, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765524.
56 56 “Total Public and Primary Private Health Insurance,” Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_STAT.
57 57 “Global Social Mobility Index 2020: Why Economies Benefit from Fixing Inequality,” World Economic Forum, January 2020, https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-social-mobility-index-2020-why-economies-benefit-from-fixing-inequality.
58 58 “Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations around the World, 2018,” The World Bank, https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/publication/fair-progress-economic-mobility-across-generations-around-the-world.
59 59 “ibidem”.
60 60 “Some Notes on the Scientific Methods of Simon Kuznets,” Robert Fogel, NBER, December 1987, https://www.nber.org/papers/w2461.pdf.
61 61 These two sentences are adapted from “The World Economic Forum, A Partner in Shaping History, The First 40 Years, 1971-2010,” http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_First40Years_Book_2010.pdf.
62 62 The Limits to Growth, p. 51, http://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Limits-to-Growth-digital-scan-version.pdf.
63 63 Ibidem, p.53.
64 64
