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Parsons criticized Wright Mills for interpreting power ‘exclusively as a facility for getting what one group, the holders of power, wants by preventing another group, the “outs”, from getting what it wants’, rather than seeing it as ‘a facility for the performance of function in and on behalf of the society as a system’ (Parsons 1957: 139).
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
Taxation, especially in small-coalition settings, redistributes from those outside the coalition (the poor) to those inside the coalition (the rich).
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
The preliminary sketches for this updated self-portrait are under way, revealing five broad shifts in how we can best depict our economic selves. First, rather than narrowly self-interested we are social and reciprocating. Second, in place of fixed preferences, we have fluid values. Third, instead of isolated we are interdependent. Fourth, rather than calculate, we usually approximate. And fifth, far from having dominion over nature, we are deeply embedded in the web of life.
Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth
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