Referring to this piece on how the EU has more poverty and more inequality than the US, one of my favourite bloggers -- Norman Geras -- has this to say:

Wirtén's point of reference in the article is European perceptions of Europe's difference from America. Another one, as obvious, is the complacency of so many defenders of 'free market' ( Read more... )

One of the striking shifts in recent American politics is that the Democrats have increasingly become the Party of the rich.

There is nothing terribly surprising in this. Progressivist policies have increasingly become the politics of privilege and inequality.

Progressivist policies promote inequality in many ways. ( inequality )

The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism is a serious scholarly attempt to compare the three basic types of Western welfare policy regimes-liberal, social democratic and corporatist. The study centres on data from three compatible longitudinal studies from each of the three types of policy regimes. The US for the liberal regime, the Netherlands for ( Read more... )