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While exclusivity and overlapping business, social and political networks (demonstrated many decades ago by William Domhoff, 1967, 1983) still define elite experience, recent research has shown that vast income inequality exists within the richest 1 per cent (Piketty, 2014, pp. 315–321, 432–436). Hecht (2017) has also shown how inequality among the super-rich leads those at the top end of income and wealth distribution to experience “relative (dis)advantage” when comparing themselves to those wealthier than themselves.
Brazilian Elites and Their Philanthropy
Jessica Sklair
Following Haraway (1991), the key practice that grounds all knowledge is ‘‘position,’’ or where to see from. A way of seeing, or ‘‘vision,’’ to use her term, involves ‘‘a politics of positioning.’’ Rejecting the possibility of a universal vantage point, Haraway argues that only ‘‘the dominators at the top of the social structure can see themselves as self-identical, unmarked, disembodied, unmediated, [or] transcendent’’
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment - The Politics of Local Knowledge
Frank Fischer
The familiar conception, the Galbraithean way, makes assumptions peculiarly appropriate to market economies: that man’s wants are great, not to say infinite, whereas his means are limited, although improvable: thus, the gap between means and ends can be narrowed by industrial productivity, at least to the point that “urgent goods” become plentiful. But __there is also a Zen road to affluence, departing from premises somewhat different from our own: that human material wants are finite and few, and technical means unchanging but on the whole adequate. Adopting the Zen strategy, a people can enjoy an unparalleled material plenty—with a low standard of living.__
Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
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