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John Markoff [5]
Pulitzer Prize-winning Reporter, The New York Times; Author, Whole Earth
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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