- Bank Report Reveals Where Ruling Class Lives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
The 2019 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report provides a glimpse at the inequality that the neoliberal era has produced, who has benefitted and those who have been left behind.
- Billionaires, Crime, and Corruption
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
What does it really mean when somebody claims to own hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars? What is a billionaire like David Rockefeller really telling us? He's saying that land he may never have set foot on, but which thousands of other people spend their lives farming, belongs to him alone. He's saying that buildings and machinery which he probably has never seen and certainly has never worked at, but which whole communities of people spend their lives working at to produce goods like clothing and automobiles, belong to him alone.
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- A Challenge to Canada’s Wealthiest 0.1%
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- China censors reports about elite's hidden funds
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Access to the websites of Le Monde, The Guardian, Global Mail, El País and Süddeutsche Zeitung were blocked in China after they and other international media reported the results of research into the accounts held by members of the Chinese elite in offshore tax havens. The entire Chinese Internet also went down for several hours after these reports appeared online.
- Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
- The Ecology of Freedom
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
- Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
- Forbes 400 list of world's richest people highlights growth of social inequality
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Forbes magazine published its 28th annual list of the world's wealthiest individuals and families on Monday. In all, the research team behind the Forbes Billionaires list found a total of 1,645 billionaires worldwide, with a combined net worth of $6.4 trillion, an increase of $1 trillion from 2013. The number of new billionaires, at 268, was the highest figure in the report's history.
- Global inequality, illustrated, described, explained
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Global inequality depitcted through images and quotes.
- How Rich Are the 400 Richest Americans?
And What They Do With Their Money
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
According to Forbes, a leading business magazine, the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans has now reached the staggering total of $2.3 trillion. This gives them an average net worth of $5.7 billion – an increase of 14 percent over the previous year.
- Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
- Maybe 99% is a bit much, but...
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
It is a fact that over the last couple of decades, much of the growth in total income in the U.S. has gone to the upper reaches of society.
- The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
- Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Tax Evasion
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- The Paranoia of The Superrich And Superpowerful
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The United States is in favor of stability. But you have to remember what stability means. Stability means conformity to U.S. orders. We “stabilize” countries when we invade them and destroy them.
- Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Essays looking at American political ideology.
- Plutocracy in America
Runaway Exploitation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Arguments for categorizing America as a plutocracy (a government of the rich and for the rich).
- Quotes about Wealth and the Rich
Resource Type: Unclassified
- The Rich and the Super-Rich
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- The rich get richer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
- Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Agrarian Political Movements
The Ontario Origins of Agrarian Criticism of Canadian Industrial Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Some Lives
A GP's East End
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
The author, a Marxist and a doctor, writes about the patients he treated in Canary Wharf - a community in East London plagued by poverty and crime.
- State of Power 2014
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A report with iinfographics and essays that expose and analyse the principal power-brokers that have caused financial, economic, social and ecological crises worldwide.
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Targeting Iran
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
- Three Big Lies of the Super-Rich
Why Being in the Highest Class Doesn't Mean You're a High Class Person
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The conservative spin of the media is designed to protect the rich from challenge.
- Top 1 percent own more than half of world's wealth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A new report issued by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse finds that global wealth inequality continues to worsen and has reached a new milestone, with the top 1 percent owning more of the world’s assets than the bottom 99 percent combined. Of the estimated $250 trillion in global assets, the top 1 percent owned almost exactly 50 percent, while the bottom 50 percent of humanity owned collectively less than 1 percent. The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world's wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population.
- The Trouble With Billionaires
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
- Wealth: Having It All and Wanting More
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in a few important economic sectors, including finance and insurance and pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Companies from these sectors spend millions of dollars every year on lobbying to create a policy environment that protects and enhances their interests further.
- Wealth, Income, and Power
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, and explains how we can use these two distributions as power indicators.
- The Wealthy Banker's Wife
The Assault on Equality in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
- What Great Recession?
Global report finds nearly 11million 'cash millionaires'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The richest people on the planet have now recouped the losses of the 2008 world markets crashed. High Net Worth inidviduals have at least one million in readily available funds, and there are more of them than ever before.
- Who do we try to rescue today?
Canada under corporate rule
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
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