"Trickle Down Theory" and "Tax Cuts for the Rich"


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This essay unscrambles gross misconceptions that have made rational debates about tax policies virtually impossible for decades.




Does "Trickle Down" Work?


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The authors explore a new framework for evaluating economic development projects. This framework is based on a job-chain approach. Each new job created by an economic development incentive is filled by an employee who leaves behind another job. In turn, that job may be filled by someone who leaves behind their old job, etc. Such job chains end when an unemployedworker, someone not previously in the labor force, or an in-migrant to the labor market takes a vacancy. Job chains are the mechanism for observing and measuring "trickle down". The job trains model developed in this book presents new insights into local economic development evaluation and strategy.




History of Economic Analysis


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At the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter was working on his monumental History of Economic Analysis. Unprecedented in scope, the book was to provide a complete history of economic theory from Ancient Greece to the end of the second world war. A major contribution to the history of ideas as well as to economics, History of Economic Analysis rapidly gained a reputation as a unique and classic work. As well being an economist, Schumpeter was a gifted mathematician, historian, philosopher and psychologist and this is reflected in the multi-disciplinary nature of his great endeavour. Topics addressed include the techniques of economic analysis, contemporaneous developments in other sciences and the sociology of economics. This inclusiveness extends to the periods and individuals who figure in the book. As well as dealing with all of the major economists from Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes, the book considers the economic writings of Plato and Aristotle, of the Medieval Scholastics and of the major European economists. Throughout, Schumpeter perceived economics as a human science and this is reflected in a volume which is lucid and insightful throughout.




The Difference Between Trickle Up Economics And Trickle Down Economics, Why Trickle Down Economics Does Not Work And Leads To Chronic Poverty, And How To Create A Trickle Up Economy That Benefits Everyone And Raises The Standard Of Living


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This essay sheds light on the difference between trickle up economics and trickle down economics, demystifies why trickle down economics does not work and leads to chronic poverty, and elucidates how to create a trickle up economy that benefits everyone and raises the standard of living. Additionally, why corporations will never concede to paying a livable wage to their human employees is explicated, why human employees are extinct and why humans have become outdated horses in the age of automation, and why employee jobs are so brutally dreadful and lead to wage slavery and extreme poverty is revealed in this essay. Moreover, and how to generate extreme wealth online on social media platforms by prolifically creating ample lucrative income generating assets is elaborated upon and the utmost best income generating assets to profusely produce in order to generate extreme wealth online are identified in this essay. Furthermore, how to become an exceptionally successful influencer online on social media platforms in the digital era is meticulously expounded upon, the litany of benefits of becoming a successful influencer online and attaining extreme fame leverage are revealed, and how to earn substantial money online so that you afford to inexplicably enrich every facet of your life is demystified in this essay. The difference between trickle up economics and trickle down economics is not only ineffably vast, but it is able to shed light on the utmost consequential reason as to why one nation's economy is prosperous and robust while another nation's economy is stagnant and dull. The system of trickle down economics creates a centralized economy in which wealth is concentrated in the hands of relatively few people whereas the system of trickle up economics creates a robust decentralized economy in which wealth is dispersed into the hands of many. The premise of the system of trickle down economics is that concentrating wealth in the hands of so few people will preponderantly benefit the economy more so than the dispersion of wealth. "Trickle down economics is a theory that claims benefits for the wealthy trickle down to everyone else. Trickle-down economics assumes investors, savers, and company owners are the real drivers of growth. It also assumes that they will use any extra cash from tax cuts to expand businesses. Under this assumption, investors will buy more companies or stocks, banks will increase lending, owners will invest in their operations and hire workers, and all of this expansion will theoretically trickle down to workers. The workers will spend their wages to drive demand and economic growth" (Amadeo, 2019). In reality, a system of trickle down economics does not have such benefits for increasing the standard of living nor for spurring economic growth since corporations view employees as exploitable, expendable labor cost liabilities who are a dime a dozen. Companies will never pay their employees a penny above minimum wage, irrespective of how credentialed they are, even though companies now have market caps exceeding $1,000,000,000,000. One of the underlying principles of trickle down economics is that "targeted tax cuts work better than general ones. It advocates cuts to corporations, capital gains, and savings taxes. It does not promote across-the-board tax cuts. Instead, the tax cuts go to the wealthy and the benefits ostensibly trickle down to everyone else. It is also contended that the tax cuts offered to the wealthy provide a powerful multiplication effect" (Amadeo, 2019). It is posited that "this will create a more prosperous economy and a larger tax base" (Amadeo, 2019) under this system of trickle down economics. Trickle down economics has profusely increased the income disparity and does not increase customer spending since tax cuts for the wealthy does not increase the purchasing power of the average private sector employee who does not even earn a sustenance wage for affording housing.




The Trickle-up Economy


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"Documents the everyday, institutionalized ways that income and wealth are transferred upward in the United States-how the bottom subsidizes the top"--




Trickle Down for Dummies


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Did ancient Egyptian Kings allow their wealth to Trickle Down to the slaves pulling the granite boulders to the pyramids ? Are you part of the upper one tenth of one percent who got ten times richer since Ronald Reagan? While outsourcing over five million good paying manufacturing jobs to China? Do you think you can amass enough wealth with Hard Work to compete politically with the inherited wealth of Donald Trump and friends? A slew of leading economic warnings including Saving Capitalism by Robert Reich are warning of the end of the Middle Class in America. Billion dollar firms buy our entire government.Half our college grads work as clerks. Are we a nation of sheep?




Basic Economics


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The bestselling citizen's guide to economics Basic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Bestselling economist Thomas Sowell explains the general principles underlying different economic systems: capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the goals they proclaim. With clear explanations of the entire field, from rent control and the rise and fall of businesses to the international balance of payments, this is the first book for anyone who wishes to understand how the economy functions. This fifth edition includes a new chapter explaining the reasons for large differences of wealth and income between nations. Drawing on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history, Sowell explains basic economic principles for the general public in plain English.




Hollowed Out


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For the past several decades, politicians and economists thought that high levels of inequality were good for the economy. But because America’s middle class is now so weak, the US economy suffers from the kinds of problems that plague less-developed countries. As Hollowed Out explains, to have strong, sustainable growth, the economy needs to work for everyone and expand from the middle out. This new thinking has the potential to supplant trickle-down economics—the theory that was so wrong about inequality and our economy—and shape economic policymaking for generations.




World Inequality Report 2022


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World Inequality Report 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of global trends in inequality, providing cutting-edge information about income and wealth inequality and also pioneering data about the history of inequality, gender inequality, environmental inequalities, and trends in international tax reform and redistribution.




Woke Capitalism


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This book delves into the corporate takeover of public morality, or ‘woke capitalism’. Discussing the political causes that it has adopted, and the social causes that it has not, it argues that this extension of capitalism has negative implications for democracy’s future.