Stiffed
David Runciman: Occupy, 25 October 2012
The Occupy Handbook
edited by Janet Byrne.
Back Bay, 535 pp., $15.99, April 2012,978 0 316 22021 7 Show More
edited by Janet Byrne.
Back Bay, 535 pp., $15.99, April 2012,
“... There is some competition to be the person who inspired the slogan of Occupy Wall Street: ‘We are the 99 per cent.’ Joseph Stiglitz thinks it might be him, on the back of an article he wrote for Vanity Fair in 2011 entitled: ‘Of the 1 per cent, by the 1 per cent, for the 1 per cent.’ Others think it was the economist Emmanuel Saez, who helped popularise the idea that 99 per cent of American households have been watching their incomes stagnate or fall while the top 1 per cent pulled away ... ”