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Plutocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plutocracy (plutarchy) is rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth. In a plutocracy, the degree of economic inequality is high while the level of social mobility is low. This can apply to a m...
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Plutocracy: (1) government by the wealthy, (2) a controlling class of the wealthy. From the Greek ploutokratia, from ploutos, wealth, and kratia, advocate of a form of government. ... Unfortunately, a relatively small number of corporate managers and stockholders of the new plutocracy control the corporate state, and it is...
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Our primate male dominance hierarchy is our principal social organizing mechanism. Authoritarian government and plutocracy, governance by the wealthy, are its cultural expression. ... Chapter 1; Dominance and Plutocracy ... What makes a government legitimate? What is a good society? These are some of our oldest and most...
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The focus here is principally on a particular demos to be added to the American federal government. But the problem of plutocracy plagues all governments. Adapted to the specific needs of other locales, a demos could and should be added to every government in the world and to every level of government.
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Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, views our present political and economic systems as dysfunctional. ... Working-class people have lost faith in government, and "when democratic counterweights are weak, the power of money prevails." The burgeoning levels of income inequality Kuttner describes,
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1st ed. Pp.176, v.small name to fep. Purple cloth very rubbed, original paper label to spine. G. London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson,1920. ... G. brown democracy cobden sanderson sovreignty equality equity representative government legislative plutocracy liberty politics 07864 ; Price = 12.00 GBP...
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