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Book: Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
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  1. Thomas Sowell _ Wealth, Poverty and Politics:

    Piketty's crucial misstep is verbally converting a fluid process over time into a rigid structure, with a more or less permanent top one percent living isolated from the rest of society that is supposedly subjected to their control or influence. It is a vision divorced from demonstrable facts, however consonant it may be with prevailing preconceptions.
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  2. Thomas Sowell _ Wealth, Poverty and Politics:

    languages as Asians, who outnumber them nearly four to one.121 Linguistic diversity is not only a sign of cultural isolation and fragmentation, it contributes to the barriers"
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  3. Thomas Sowell _ Wealth, Poverty and Politics:

    Differences in habits and attitudes are differences in human capital, just as much as differences in knowledge and skills-and such differences create differences in economic outcomes.
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  4. Thomas Sowell _ Wealth, Poverty and Politics:

    isolation is a recurring factor in poverty and backwardness around the world, whether that is physical isolation or cultural isolation, for any number of particular reasons
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  5. Thomas Sowell _ Wealth, Poverty and Politics:

    Slippery use of the word "privilege" is part of a vogue of calling achievements "privileges"-a vogue which extends far beyond educational issues, spreading a toxic confusion in many other aspects of life.
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