Posts Tagged ‘Irving Kristol’

Capitalism results in Inequality, by Necessity

Posted by Eric B. on September 20th, 2009 under Economics Tags: , , ,  •  No Comments

In the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal was a memorium for Irving Kristol.  The memorium took excerpts from several of Kristol’s famous articles, and I liked this one the best:
“Income Inequality Without Class Conflict, Dec. 18, 1997
It is often said that capitalism—that is, a market economy—is morally obnoxious because its “trickle-down economics” inevitably [...]