Archive: wealth

• Contested Development

  By brittany.t.coombs@gmail.com March 20, 2012

  This blog arrives in response to fellow gnoviser Colleen Valentine's insightful post about the relationship between Western culture and female reproductive rights. At the end of her blog, Colleen won

  Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog Tags: america, developed country, developing country, development, economics, first world, GDP, income, nationhood, third world, U.S., wealth

• Occupying the Dream

  By jrw68 October 24, 2011

  Posted up in a makeshift hamlet in a neighborhood park in Lower Manhattan, the 99 percent have mobilized in opposition to “the man” and his oppressive capitalist regime. The suits peer down from high

  Categories: 2011, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog Tags: 1 percent, 99 percent, 99 percenters, American Dream, capitalism, capitalist, capitalist society, kanye west, mayor bloomberg, michael bloomberg, New York, Occupy Wall Street, occupy wall street movement, rich, rich 1, the 99 percent, the american dream, the rich 1 percent, Wall Street, wealth, zuccotti park

• When Rich Meets Reality – Depicting the Benefaction of the Wealthy

  By jrw68 March 17, 2011

  In such a hyper-mediated society, it’s only fitting that watching television is one of America’s favorite and most time-consuming activities. The middle-class American family is a historic character of the small screen, immortalized in such classics as All in the Family and The Simpsons – reassuring the most robust, yet simultaneously fragile social class during bouts of racial strife and economic turmoil.  Yet, as wealth disparities grow and the middle class suffers, television offers a new type of reassurance – one that proclaims that rich people are just like us.

  Category: The Gnovis Blog Tags: Bill Maher, economic, media, middle class, Real Time, rich, secret millionaire, TV, wealth