How The Rich Keep Getting Richer

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Published on Jul 23, 2012

Richie Rich Gets Richer: The widening gap between the world’s rich and poor

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As countries like Greece and Spain struggle under massive debts that are impoverishing its people, the elites around the world are getting richer and richer. This report looks at the ever widening gap.

“There are customers that have all the way up to 100 vehicles in their garage.” Torsten Muller-Otvos from Rolls Royce tells us. Each one costs about half a million and last year Rolls Royce sold more cars than ever before in their 100-year history, but then the luxury industry knows no crisis. Since 2009 the rich have become on average 6 percent richer. So while one in six Americans now has no health insurance, Manhattan’s 58 billionaires have gotten richer. As Manuel Koch points out the ratio of return expected by the rich has totally shifted, “People used to be happy making three million profit. Today companies like Apple account for 6 billion profit. That’s profit! Not turnover.” But despite their greater income the super-rich aren’t too happy about the idea of their tax loopholes being closed. In their minds they give back, even if its not through taxes. “I know a lot of rich friends who have charities…when they reach a certain level they give back to the community. So I think less tax is always better than too much.” But as the world struggles through a financial crisis and the globe-trotting elite continue to grow wealthier, there’s not much evidence they have their communities interests at heart.

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Consumed – Is Our Consumer Culture Leading to Disaster?

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Published on Aug 9, 2013

Consumed: Discover how the secrets of the human mind are destroying our world

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Consumerism has become the cornerstone of the post-industrial age. Yet how much do we know about it and what it is doing to us? Using theories of evolutionary psychology to underpin a bold narrative of our times, this film takes a whirlwind tour through the “weird mental illness of consumerism”, showing how our insatiable appetite has driven us into “the jaws of the beast”. Both an apocalyptic and redemptive view of the human condition.

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Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis

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Published on Jul 2, 2012

Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis. Award-winning youtube hit giving fresh insight into the greatest economic crisis of our age: the one still awaiting us.

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Fueling the Food Crisis

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Published on Oct 10, 2012

Tim A. Wise: Bio-fuels are driving up the price of food everywhere and costing developing countries billions

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Resolving the Food Crisis: Research for Global Policy Reform

In their January 2012 report, “Resolving the Food Crisis: Assessing Global Policy Reforms Since 2007,”

Timothy A. Wise and Sophia Murphy argued that the recent crisis has been a catalyst for important policy reforms, but the international community had thus far avoided deeper structural reforms, leaving the world vulnerable to further crisis.

The report launched a GDAE research program on the causes of and policy solutions for the current food crisis. Research includes ongoing work on:

• the ever-closer links between food, fuel, and financial markets;
• the reliability of projections that we will not be able to feed the world in 2050;
• research into the impacts of U.S. biofuels policies on developing countries.

The report, “Resolving the Food Crisis,” is based on a comprehensive assessment of the policies and actions taken since 2007 by four international groups of actors: the UN, the G-20, the World Bank and international donors. The authors warn that policy reforms fall well short of what is needed to meet the world’s current and future food needs in a sustainable way, particularly in the context of rapidly changing climate.

Several issues received priority attention in the Food Crisis report, and they are the focus of ongoing GDAE research:

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Timothy A. Wise on Dumping of Agricultural Products into Mexico

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Timothy A. Wise, Director, Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE) Tufts University on dumping of agricultural products into Mexico.

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Violence Against Women is a Necessary Outcome of the Athletic Industrial Complex

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Published on Sep 11, 2014

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Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation, talks with Dennis Trainor, Jr. about the one reason Roger Goodell will be forced out as NFL Commissioner, Violence in the NFL, Domestic violence

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Conversation: Brooke Gladstone’s ‘The Influencing Machine’

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Brooke Gladstone is the long time co-host and managing director of WNYC’s On The Media. Her new book about media and society is ‘The Influencing Machine,’ a comic book illustrated by Josh Neufeld.

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Classified pages of a 9/11 report may implicate key ally

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Published on Sep 11, 2014

Thirteen years since September 11, 2001, some revelations of a joint congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks remain classified. But some lawmakers argue the secret pages reveal little about national security and a great deal about Saudi Arabia’s role in the attacks. Lawrence Wright, whose article “The Twenty-Eight Pages” appears in The New Yorker, talks to Jeffrey Brown.

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Harvard President Faust details University’s climate action, role in society | Divest Harvard

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Last October, in the wake of strong student support for divesting University investments in companies engaged in producing fossil fuels (part of a campaign to promote this idea nationwide), President Drew Faust announced to the community that Harvard would not take that step. She pointed instead to the “University’s distinctive way of serving society” through education and research, in pursuit of which it was appropriate to be “very wary of steps intended to instrumentalize our endowment.” She sketched “significant and growing” teaching and research on environmental and climate issues, a “strong institutional commitment to sustainability,” and steps to “strengthen and further develop our approach to sustainable investment.” Those priorities, as summarized then, were not accompanied by further details—and student and alumni interest in divestiture continued apace, at Harvard and elsewhere (see this Yale Daily News account for a report from New Haven).

In a letter to the community this afternoon, Faust filled in more of the picture.

Research. In fields spanning “climate science, engineering, law, public health, policy, design, and business,” Faust wrote, The Harvard Campaign has made energy and environment a priority, and has raised $120 million toward this end. (A $31-million gift to the Center for the Environment, within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences campaign, may be a part of this total, as reported here.) Details of that philanthropy were not provided, but the president’s message linked to a display of the numbers of courses offered, faculty working with the Center for the Environment on pertinent research, and certain programmatic highlights, such as climate-change research in the Amazon, Business School scholarship, policy investigations of fossil-fuel subsidies, and more. To “catalyze” research, focusing on the “transition to a sustainable energy system,” the president is adding a new arrow to the quiver of innovation grants like those associated with the Harvard iLab, with a $1-million Climate Change Solutions Fund, effective July 1; it is meant to encourage faculty and student innovations, and, Faust wrote, should anchor a fund that she hopes alumni will underwrite to the tune of $20 million. (Among recent Harvard Magazine features on climate-change research at the University, see “Time to Electrify,” “Buffering the Sun,” “Reefs at Risk”—with photographs by David Arnold ’71— “The Water Tamer,” “Greening China,” and “Fueling Our Future.”)

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