Can we reverse these deeply rooted sources sources of inequality? Or are they just endemic to a capitalist economy? - Robert Kuttner

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.

In America, we build public housing by creating lucrative inducements to private developers, and then wax indignant at the public waste.

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.