Business and Society Review, Winter 1974
WEALTHY PERSONS in America enjoy security, privilege, power, and freedom from demeaning chores. Some of these benefits derive from wealth itself, others from its unequal distribution. It is the latter that are properly the concern of the non-wealthy.
The New Republic, November 10,1973
WHEN THE TENNESSEE Valley Authority was created by Congress in 1933, it was conceived of not only as an effort to revitalize an impoverished region, but also as an experiment in public enterprise. Forty years later the returns on TVA are pretty much in.
The New Republic, October 13, 1973
THREE of the four provinces in western Canada — Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia — are governed by socialist parties. With the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, these are now the only democratic socialist governments in the Western Hemisphere.
The New Republic, September 8, 1973
BOOKS BY POLITICIANS tend to be boring, staff-produced efforts designed to display The Boss as a thoughtful public servant. What sets Fred Harris’ apart is his unique angle of vision. He is the only major politician who says publicly and indeed vociferously that American capitalism is a shuck.
The New Republic, March 31, 1973
Our economy is controlled by an extremely small, largely unaccountable set of elites operating on behalf of a wealth-owning minority. To alter this pattern of ownership and control is politically unfeasible at the moment, but so are many things until enough people decide they want them.
The New Republic, March 24, 1973
UNDER the rolling plains of eastern Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas is one of the world’s last great energy reserves — nearly a trillion tons of lignite and sub-bituminous coal, about 35 billion of which are readily strippable. A good many ranchers, young people and others, however, don’t want to mine it.
The New Republic, October 21, 1972
WHILE a small minority of Americans siphons off more money than it knows what to do with, a fifth of our population remains perennially poor, and millions more teeter on the edge of poverty. Ever-increasing production won’t, by itself, correct this. We also need to share better.
The New Republic, September 30, 1972
WHAT IS WEALTH, who gets it, and why? More to the point, why — despite wars on poverty, progressive taxation, relatively high employment and widespread educational opportunity — does our economy so stubbornly perpetuate inequality?
The New Republic, September 2, 1972
THERE must be a broad commitment by the federal government to assist agricultural workers, rather than tax-evading doctors, to become farm owners.
The New Republic, April 27, 1974
THE VERY RICH, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, are different from us. They have pelf and power, exclusive schools, luxurious watering holes and above all, an abiding interest in preserving the economic system that so generously rewards them.
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