Uprisings: Bottom Up and Top Down
By Jared Bernstein
July 16, 2008
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Uprisings: Bottom up and top
down
By Jared
Bernstein
I think it was the British comedian Alexei Sayle who used to do
this routine riffing off of Tracy Chapman's song about revolution.
He'd play it for awhile, and then stop it suddenly right when Tracy
was singing "there's a revolution coming." And he'd shout, in a
very uppercrust accent, "No, there's not!"
Read the rest of this piece
here.
Jared
Bernstein is senior economist at the Economic Policy
Institute in Washington, D.C.
[ POSTED TO VIEWPOINTS ON JULY 16,
2008. ]
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