The Future of Democratic Capitalism: A Discussion with Martin Wolf
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Immigrant Crisis in the United States
What bothers me troubles me more is that people seem to almost love the the vulgar rich often. What they really hate are the people below them and so social response to an economy a society like ours which is quite unequal is also often very unpredictable and quite puzzling. How important is the immigration issue how do you see changing it? Well I put forward a fairly fundamental point which is and I'm obviously controversial with many people. Citizens are an exclusive group they don't include everybody in the world They include people with what is a political entitlement to a say in the decision-making of a particular jurisdiction. citizenship is not a right it's a privilege.
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