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<DIV>From World War to Class War: The Rebound of the Rich<BR>Robert G.
Evans<BR><FONT size=1>Bob Evans is one of the developers of the "population
health" concept and a<BR>leading health economist in Canada. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=1></FONT><BR>Abstract:<BR>Incomes in Canada, as in many other
countries, are becoming increasingly<BR>unequal. In North America this process
has several notable features. First,<BR>after 40 years of stability, income
has since 1980 been increasingly<BR>concentrated in the hands of the top 0.01%
of earners. Second, this<BR>concentration correlates with an explosion in the
relative earnings of<BR>corporate CEOs, a sort of "corporate kleptocracy."
Third, the top earners<BR>have appropriated most of the productivity gains
over this period. The<BR>resources and political influence of the super-rich
underlie the growing<BR>prominence of the "elite" agenda: lower taxes, smaller
government and<BR>privatization or shrinkage of social programs. The marketing
of this agenda<BR>may explain much of the nonsense that contaminates health
policy debates.<BR><BR>FULL TEXT ARTICLE AVAILABLE AT:<BR><BR><A
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