Gilder (a friend and mentor) also restates a defining, contrarian, and still-too-little-understood theme of the original Wealth and Poverty.
Safe property rights, secure contracts and sensible economic policies make all the difference between wealth and poverty, he said.
Why, she wonders, is this juxtaposition of wealth and poverty considered a moral problem and not a practical one?
Median figures strip out the extremes of wealth and poverty, and are a better reflection of a typical, middle-class household.
The great social questions of the 19th century, including wealth and poverty, prostitution, childhood mortality and philanthropy, will also be examined.
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Gilder plunged deep into nerdville about 15 years ago, when doing research for a sequel to his bestseller, Wealth And Poverty.
Greed, as I put it in Wealth and Poverty, leads as by an invisible hand to an ever-growing welfare state to socialism.
There are other reasons of course beyond Iowa and New Hampshire why U.S. policy seems to favor farmers over city dwellers and why it cares so little about extremes of wealth and poverty.
Once in Naples, Caravaggio fitted in like a native, embracing the metropolis that was three times the size of Rome, riven by extremes of wealth and poverty, light and dark, palazzi and shantytowns.
Just as the primitive man was confused by and fearful of storms and earthquakes and drought and disease, progressives are befuddled by the rise and fall of industries, booms and recessions, wealth and poverty.
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Can transform whole nations into prosperity and wealth or poverty and economic hardships for most all.
Since it was discovered by Columbus in 1492, Hispaniola has known great wealth and deep poverty.
Technological Knowledge can be used to create wealth and alleviate poverty in Africa.
Yet the combination of rising mineral wealth and continuing poverty is explosive.
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They are not, as you might guess, as interesting to watch in relative poverty as in obscene wealth, and the poverty part goes on much too long not just for them, but for us watching them.
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Afro-Uruguayans are among dis-advantaged groups in the country with access to cultural wealth hindered by poverty and lack of infrastructure.
Just changing the way business is done, if only by a few companies, can change the flow of wealth, ease and eliminate poverty, and leave us all with something better to worry about.
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Only the creation of wealth can truly overcome poverty and this depends on individual effort.
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Yet question marks remain over whether India's economic boom can last, or whether it is simply a thin sheen of prosperity in a country still stricken by extremes of poverty and wealth.
In terms of natural resources, mainly oil and gas, Kazakhstan's and Turkmenistan's relative wealth contrasts with Kirgizstan's and Tajikistan's poverty.
That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between blacks and whites, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persist in so many of today's urban and rural communities.
The profusion of wars in Africa is often ascribed to the continent's unique combination of widespread poverty and great natural wealth.
With good reason, of course: The more Americans fear poverty and sock away wealth, the more money they pay to Wall Street.
Instead, single-minded pursuit of GNP has led to great inequalities of wealth and power, fueled the growth of a vast underclass, trapped millions of children in poverty, and caused serious environmental degradation.
So many signifiers of coolness clothes, birthdays, activities, cars, housing are really signifiers of wealth, and in a deep and prolonged recession, poverty makes you socially as well as materially vulnerable.
If the African-American community also sees the power of the ballot to overcome other historical obstacles such as entrenched poverty, widening wealth, education gaps and safer streets where it's not as easy for a criminal to get a gun as it is to buy a cigarette, then this expansion of its voting power will be a more permanent fixture on the political scene.
The result is fewer investments, less wealth creation, less opportunity, fewer jobs, and more poverty.
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The state is also in charge of national planning, eradication of poverty, and making sure that national wealth is distributed in an even manner among its citizens.
Dr Williams went on to acknowledge that "loosening up a financial regime" was sometimes needed to foster enterprise and create wealth to "draw whole populations out of poverty".
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