The political economist who has served in three US administrations, most recently as labour secretary under former president Bill Clinton, is a longstanding vocal opponent of the kind of neo-liberal economics that have influenced policy in the US and the UK since the early 1980s and fostered soaring levels of inequality and entrenched poverty. He dismisses as nonsense the notion that if the rich get richer wealth will trickle down to the wider population.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:45:19 +0000
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