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[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-inequality-distorts-economics/ by Fred Block 2021 DISSENT] | [https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-inequality-distorts-economics/ by Fred Block 2021 DISSENT] | ||
One of the urgent challenges facing the Biden administration is reversing the ever-worsening maldistribution of wealth. The more billionaires we have, and the more zeroes added to the net worth of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, the less there is for everyone else. | One of the urgent challenges facing the Biden administration is reversing the ever-worsening maldistribution of wealth. The more billionaires we have, and the more zeroes added to the net worth of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, the less there is for everyone else. | ||
=====Migration and development===== | |||
[https://www.iom.int/sites/g/files/tmzbdl2616/files/2018-07/TP4.pdf by Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah 9/05 GLOBAL MISSION ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION] | |||
These mutual impacts are often in sharpest relief in the context of economic development. | |||
Here, what we might call the ‘development-migration-development’ nexus becomes of great | |||
interest. Put simply, we know that migration is often motivated by relative disparities in the | |||
economic development of sending and receiving countries (though generally not in the case of | |||
those move to seek political asylum). | |||
