Articles by Sam Pizzigati

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Can We Measure Inequality without Tallying the Wealth of the Wealthiest?
Sam Pizzigati | Inequality - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

31 Jul 2023 – Hundreds of prestigious economists don’t think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.

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Executive Pay: A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?
Sam Pizzigati | Inequality – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jul 2023

9 Jul 2023 – Pay levels for top U.S. corporate execs have lost any connection to organizational rationality.

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Why Are Moderna’s Billionaires Airbrushing Scientists Out of the Vaccine Patent Picture?
Sam Pizzigati | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Nov 2021

5 Nov 2021 – Moderna now has four of its top players on the Forbes list of America’s 400 richest. In early 2020, it had none. The quartet owes its current good fortune completely to the company’s Covid-19 vaccine. And who made that vaccine possible?

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Is GDP Over?
Sam Pizzigati, Institute of Policy Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Nov 2015

Have We Finally Moved Beyond GDP? Economists from rich countries increasingly agree: Sustainable development and reducing inequality matter more than economic growth. To help overcome inequality we need to do much more than total up an economy’s goods and services.

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