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Status seeking is important. Relative incomes matter... Mainstream... economists said inequality was not a problem, and that's how we got an oligarchy [and populism].

— John Komlos A Progressive View on the Need for a Paradigm Shift in Economics (2020)

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It is important that the research continue, inasmuch as it promises to illuminate a large number of problems.

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