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Book Review: Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality

Posted by By John West June 23, 2024Posted ineconomicsNo Comments

Nobel-Prize-winning economist Sir Angus Deaton is deeply concerned about the darkening of American society and the increasing “deaths of despair,” factors that are driving populism and isolationism.

Angus Deaton, 2015, from Wikipedia, Bengt Nyman, CC BY-SA 4.0.

“All men are created equal”, really?

Posted by By Frank Li April 13, 2022Posted inopinionNo Comments

“All men are created equal” – What a slogan in the “Declaration of Independence”!

It was very powerful and useful for America to defy the British King at the time. But its true validity has been in question ever since, with profound implications to date, not only for America but also for the world.

It is time to thoroughly clarify it: it is false!