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2002 : WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION? ... WHY? [1]

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John Markoff [6]
Science Journalist; Covers cyber-security for The New York Times; Author, What the Dormouse Said; Co-author, Takedown.
Can wealth be distributed?

Even with productivity showing startling increases as a consequence of new information technologies everything suggests that the gap between rich and poor is growing dramatically globally and even beginning to increase again in the U.S. So much for trickle down economics.

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