id="ulink_49e2a711-2705-5858-933d-55792d18b24b"> Why We Need Intermediate Organizations
Have Intermediate Organizations Declined?
What’s Immobility Got to Do with It?
7. Why Libertarians Should Care about Income Immobility
8. Why Everyone Should Care about Income Immobility
Wealth
Happiness
Things We (Mostly) Can’t Change: Technology, Taxes, Welfare, Culture, Genes
9. The Move to an Information Economy
Is Technological Change Skill-based?
Has Technological Change Recently Increased?
A Supply-side Explanation?
The Loss of Low-tech Jobs
The New Global Super-rich
11. The Limits of Public Policy
Stingy Welfare Benefits?
Low Tax Rates?
Campaign Finance Reform?
Inherited Wealth
Environment and Culture
Genoeconomics
Things We (Mostly) Can’t Change: The Aristocrat Abides
The Bequest Motive
Relative Preferences
Spite
Reciprocal Altruism
Green Beards, Networks, and Reputations
Class Markers
Politics as a Green Beard
Maypoles on the Village Green
Heroism and Hubris
Sealing the Deal
The Promise Made
The Promise Broken
The Enemies of Promise
A Nation of Immigrants
The 1965 Immigration Act
Opportunity Costs
Benign Neglect
Licensing Entrepreneurs
Romancing Wall Street
Tax Subsidies for the Rich
Coporate Law Malfunctions
19. Criminalizing Entrepreneurship
The United States of Crime
A System Designed to Convict
Enemies of the People
A Wish List
Endless History
Reversing
A. Income Inequality
B. Piketty’s Law of Accumulation
C. Regression Analysis
D. Altruism and Evolutionary Fitness
“Dick is . . . smart enough to profit from the book’s simple messages: that all labor is respectable, that poverty is no bar to advancement, that getting ahead requires education and saving one’s money.” Page 4.
ALL PHOTOS: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
“The Carter’s Grove [pictured above], Sabine Hall, and Shirley plantations of the Carters, the Westover of the Byrds, the Stratford of the Lees and the Mount Vernons left no doubt that their owners were masters of large fortunes.” Page 23.
“Lincoln joked that he had not a platform to stand on, whereupon someone brought him an empty dry-goods box.” Page 39.
“Solving the travelling salesman problem [pictured left] turns out to be crucially important in keeping costs down.” Page 102.
“[Self-driving] vehicles rely on Google Maps and Street View as well as radar and video messages that are fed into a computer, and have been said to provide a safer drive than any a human driver could provide.” Page 104.