Economic policies that do not include empathy toward the population can bring market failures and damage to the economy. Governments can positively offset market failures by adopting empathy into policies. Empathic growth benefits real people by adding security, prosperity and general well-being to their lives. 

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Redlining is the process by which some home loan lenders and insurance companies deny applications for loans or insurance policies to residents of some geographic areas.  

In contemporary discourse, cooperatives are often considered as vehicles for post-capitalist social transformation. 

Comprehensive overview in several  articles 

How does income inequality impact intergroup relations in the US? I used a multilevel modeling approach to test the effects of income inequality on attitudes toward US minority groups from the American Election Studies, from 1970-2008

Kindle, Peter. 2019. “Robert Wuthnow, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America (Book Review).” Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 34(1): Article 4. Available At: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jrss/vol34/ iss1/4

 This article discusses the rise of worker centers, worker ownership, campaigns for increased state regulation, and cross-border organizing in a modern economy. on here

Microeconomic analysis of a monopoly’s incentives to produce fewer products at higher prices

US Industries with Little Competition are listed here

 Federal Anti-trust Enforcement is Weak. Here is a Plan to Harnass 50 State Governments’ Power to Rein In Monopolies. 

‘As non-evangelical faiths lose adherents, it won’t be too long before the vast majority of Christians in America are seriously right wing’

Detailed description of 2012 trends in the Evangelical Movement and its impacts on the United States 

Radical discussion of rich keeping poor people poor. 

Real Property Ownership is One Critical Foundation of Wealth; It Was Damaged by Bank Failures in 2012. 

‘The maximum GDP growth occurs at a Gini coefficient of about 0.66 unless negative nominal interest rates or ongoing deficit spending is allowed; 2) Gini coefficients above 0.66 result in drastically reduced GDP caused by insufficient demand; 3) Below this point, there is excess demand which causes upward pressure on inflation and results in higher nominal interest rates; 4) At the current global Gini coefficient of about 0.62, real interest rates are near zero; 5) As inequality grows, the middle and upper middle classes shrink while the poor and rich classes expand.’

ABSTRACT ‘The Captured State: Selected Statistics Show Harms of Wealth Concentration to American Life’ This paper suggests that the historically large concentrations of wealth possessed in 2023 by American Billionaires and CEO’s create a blockage in the United States which interferes with our government’s attempts to change existing laws and regulations. The concentration blocks effectively the law making process granted by the Constitution in 1789. Our constitution gave American citizens the right to vote as a check on attempts to bend our laws and regulations toward the personal favor of any person or group. However, today concentrated wealth collectively prevents Congress from adopting proposed laws or regulations that correspond to the will of citizens. As a direct result of that blockage, Congress has been, and continues to be, unable to pass laws and regulations to benefit American voters’ social well-being. The United States has fallen behind many other countries in most measures of Social well-being. The paper presents several measurements of social well being and compares the United States’ scores to selected other countries. Many countries with very large imbalances of incomes and wealth have suffered violent revolutions including the imprisonment and assassination of the rulers. Author: Mike P. McKeever; Founding Editor of the Oakland School of Economics Journal, est 2021 Published in the Oakland School of Economics Journal December 2023.

Notes on the History of Policy Analysis, Robert G. Healy, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy and Public Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment and Terry Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University (Durham, NC).

Mass layoffs and Cyber Crime Call For Government Intervention

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