Sentences with phrase «concentration of wealth as»

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Today's must - read story is by Fortune's Chris Matthews, who reveals that wealth concentration is growing as millionaires take over an even bigger chunk of the world's wealth.

As with income, these data show a long historical decline in the concentration of wealth from the late 1920s into the late 1970s.

Crude demand sure to fall with low industry growth, people getting poorer (as a result of concentration of wealth in few hands) and increasing CNG and electric powered cars.

Historically, these taxes have been seen as a way to break up «unhealthy» concentrations of family wealth, and as a backstop to tax gains missed by the income tax system, such as unrealized capital gains at death.

Bertolini has raised the minimum hourly wage for Aetna employees to $ 16, offers wellness programs that include meditation and stress reduction and gave as a Christmas gift to his leadership team French economist Thomas Piketty's «Capital in the 21st Century,» which documents the concentration of wealth and income.

As a result, considerable concentrations of wealth and power are required by the mass media of communication.

As we have noted, the current distributional pattern characterized by gross concentration of land in the hands of the few is the basis for the concentration of both wealth and political power.

Thus, impeding the extreme concentration of wealth was / is seen as a virtuous endeavor to enshrine US meritocracy.

Is the rising power and capital accumulation of FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon) together with advances in block chains and artificial intelligence leading to the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands, obsolescence of manual labour and even the destruction of capitalism, as Karl Marx believed in the 19th century?

Non-polar glacial ice holds a wealth of information about past changes in climate, the environment and especially atmospheric composition, such as variations in temperature, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and emissions of natural aerosols or human - made pollutants... The glaciers therefore hold the memory of former climates and help to predict future environmental changes.

Inequalities of wealth and income have risen steadily for three decades, racial segregation continues, class segregation has deepened, and middle and working class families are fracturing in the face of this economic onslaught, but rather than face these fundamental realities politicians keep pandering to the public and putting forth an endless stream of quick fixes that don't cost any money and don't require real change & mdash as if cosmetic changes in schools are somehow going to offset decades of disinvestment in the public sphere and rising concentrations of poverty.

We've stood by as the concentration of wealth have made it possible for small groups of extremely wealthy people to wield power far disproportionate to their number, leading to inaction on issues as broad - ranging as climate change to gun policy.

Drawing on his experience as a health psychologist and using a wealth of cultural, historical and literary references that range from the Buddha, to Nazi concentration camps, to Dorothy in the land of Oz, he leads us to examine ourselves.

All of this is of a very high standard and with the hotels located all around the city, the main concentrations of hotels which are actually of the most interest are the hotels located around what is known as the golden triangle where almost all of the large conferences are held an there are wealth of luxury international hotels all offering incredible accommodation as well as unbeatable business and conference facilities.

Mega-galleries such as Hauser & Wirth have benefitted disproportionately from the growing concentration of wealth in the hands of a small sector of the global elite, giving them the resources to take on many of the functions that were previously the domain of curators, academics, and museums.

Huang and Chen are fascinated with the myth of New York as an ethnic mosaic and its reality as one of the world's most intense concentrations of wealth and poverty, materialism and spirituality, cultural interaction and ideological strife, immigration and racism...» - Huang Yong Ping, Chen Zhen, and France Morin, exhibition brochure.

Presumably, the CO2 enriched atmosphere was also a factor and as the CO2 emissions from burning carbon laid down in the distant past increases (as it inevitably will) and the temperature sensitivity of the atmosphere to increased concentrations decreases (it's probably quite low now anyway), the biosphere will thrive while the human population stabilizes due to increased wealth and education.

«I don't necessarily see cryptocurrency over the long term as democratizing the world... there will be different concentrations of wealth and different governance.»

Dr Cassandra Goldie, CEO of ACOSS, noted when launching the report that growing inequities in income and wealth are a «problem both socially but also, importantly, economically as the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has alerted us to, with an important report just last week, that if we're serious about economic growth, concentration of income and wealth in the top is bad for the economy».