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The Raging 2020s

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by Alec Ross


  Eli Lilly and Company

  elites

  El Salvador, corporate tax rate in

  employment status

  Engels, Friedrich

  Engels’ Pause

  entrepreneurship

  environmental destruction. See also climate change

  Environmental Protection Agency

  environmental standards

  equality

  equal pay. See also income inequality

  equilibrium, between government and business

  Erie Canal

  Eritrea

  Eurasia Group

  Europe. See also European Union; specific countries

  central and northern European model of labor unions

  corporate power in

  medieval trade associations

  Mediterranean model of union

  open vs. closed systems

  organized labor in

  safety nets in

  small and medium-sized businesses in

  tax havens and

  techno-authoritarianism in

  European Commission

  European Union (EU). See also specific countries

  Export Administration Regulations

  Facebook

  FACT Coalition

  factory farming

  Fair Tax Mark

  fascism

  fashion industry

  fast fashion

  Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

  Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

  Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

  Federal Reserve

  Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

  FedEx

  Ferguson, Niall

  financial crisis of 2008–9

  financial secrecy index

  Finland

  First Transcontinental Railroad

  Fisher Body

  Fletcher, Tom

  Foa, Roberto Stefan

  Ford

  Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)

  Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

  Foreign Office (UK)

  foreign policy

  corporations and

  future of

  Pentagon and

  Foreign Service

  formulary apportionment

  Fortune 500

  Fortune Global 500 list

  France

  Freelancers Union

  Freeman, Richard

  free trade, in Nordic countries

  free trade agreements

  Friedman, Milton

  Fukuyama, Francis

  G7

  G20

  Gascoigne, Clark

  Gates, Bill

  General Data Privacy Regulation

  generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)

  General Motors (GM)

  Georgetown University

  Germany

  Ghana

  GI Bill

  gig economy

  Gillard, Julia

  global economy, taxes and

  global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI)

  globalization. See also free trade agreements

  Goldman Sachs

  Gompers, Samuel

  Google

  artificial intelligence and

  Italian tax laws and

  profit shifting and

  tax havens and

  Google Ads

  Google Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.

  Google Ireland Holdings

  Google Ireland Limited

  Google Italy s.r.l.

  Google Maps

  Google Netherlands Holdings B.V.

  Google Search

  Goolsbee, Austan

  government agencies. See also specific agencies

  governmental power

  captured by industry

  corporate power and

  decline in

  government bailouts

  for corporations

  transportation industry and

  government leadership, corporate power and

  government overreach

  government policy, corporate power and

  government regulations

  government service

  Great Depression

  Great Recession

  “Green Jersey”

  Greenpeace International

  Grindr

  Group of 77

  Gucci

  Guernsey

  Gulf States. See also specific countries

  H&M

  Hamilton, Alexander

  Hanauer, Nick

  Harvard University

  health care. See also health insurance

  Healthcare.gov

  health insurance. See also safety nets

  Henry, James

  Hertford College, University of Oxford

  Hillman, Sidney

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hobbes, Thomas

  Hoffa, James Jr.

  Hoffa, Jimmy

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr.

  Honda

  Hong Kong

  Horowitz, Sara

  Horsfall, Pierre

  hostile takeovers

  House of Commons (UK)

  HSBC

  Huawei

  human rights

  Hummelgaard, Peter

  Hurricane Maria

  IBM

  Iceland

  Icicle

  iFLYTEK

  IG Farben

  IKEA

  Illinois

  Illinois and Michigan Canal

  income inequality. See also wealth gap

  independent contractors. See also gig economy

  India

  individualism

  industrialization

  Industrial Revolution

  inequality

  income inequality

  organized labor and

  technology and

  unions and

  wealth gap

  influence industry

  infrastructure

  initial public offerings (IPOs)

  innovation

  Instacart

  insulin

  intellectual property, tax avoidance and

  Inter-American Democratic Charter

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

  International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  International Rescue Committee (IRC). See also Red Cross

  International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)

  internet companies

  iPhone

  Ireland. See also “Double Irish” profit sharing

  Iron Curtain

  Iron Rice Bowl

  Isle of Man

  Italy

  Japan

  Japanese prisoners of war

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jersey

  Jeune, Reg

  Johnson & Johnson

  Jones, Gary

  Joon-ho, Bong

  JPMorgan Chase

  Kalanick, Travis

  Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor

  Kenna, Corley

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kenya

  Khanna, Parag

  Khosrowshahi, Dara

  King, Martin Luther Jr.

  Klein, Ezra

  kludgeocracy

  Knudsen, William

  Kohl’s

  Korean War

  K-pop

  Kuwait

  labor. See also organized labor

  labor flexibility

  labor laws

  labor movements. See also organized labor

  Ladas

  Lansky, Meyer

  Latin America. See also specific countries

  Layfield, Dave

  Layfield, Dave Sr.

  Layfield, Patricia

  Layfield family

  layoffs

  Lebanon

  Lemkau, Gregg

  Lerner, Stephen

  Lewis, John L.

  Li, Robin

  Lillis, Paddy

  Lin
coln Tunnel

  LinkedIn

  Lionel

  lobbying

  Lockheed Martin

  Loeb, Daniel

  Lord Mayor of London

  Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)

  Luckey, Palmer

  Luff, Jonathan

  Luxembourg

  Lyft

  Lynch, Chris

  Macau

  Macy’s

  Ma Jun

  Malaysia

  Maniam, Aaron

  Mao Zedong

  Marcario, Rose

  market consolidation

  Marlboro

  Marxism

  Maryland

  mass mobilization

  Mattatuck Manufacturing Company

  Mauritius

  McCartin, Joseph

  McMillon, Doug

  Meany, George

  Medicaid

  Medicare

  Mehlman, Bruce

  Merck

  Merck, George W.

  mergers and acquisitions. See also market consolidation

  Mexico

  MI6

  Michigan

  Microsoft

  Middle East. See also Gulf States; specific countries

  migration

  Miliband, David

  military power, traditional

  minimum wage

  Minnesota

  minority groups

  MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  Mittelstand

  Molson Coors

  Monaghan, Paul

  Mongolia

  monopolies

  Montserrat

  Mook, Nate

  Morehouse College

  Moscow Narodny Bank

  Mounk, Yascha

  Mountaire Farms

  Mugabe, Robert

  Mussolini, Benito

  Namibia

  NASA

  National Guard

  National People’s Congress

  National Science Foundation

  Native Americans

  Nazism

  Nelson, Gaylord

  Netherlands

  New Deal

  New Jersey

  Newmark, Craig

  New Zealand

  Nigeria

  Nike

  Nixon, Richard

  Nordic countries. See also specific countries

  Nordic model. See also Nordic countries; specific countries

  Nordstrom

  Normans

  North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

  North Carolina

  North Korea

  Northrop Grumman

  Norway

  Novo Nordisk

  NSA (National Security Agency)

  Oculus Rift

  oil companies

  open vs. closed systems

  China

  developing world and

  Nordic model

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

  organized crime

  organized labor

  attitudes toward

  central and northern European model

  demise of

  future of

  gig economy and

  globalization and

  golden age of

  Great Depression and

  history of

  Industrial Revolution and

  inequality and

  Mediterranean model of union

  peak of

  power of

  revolutionary politics and

  technology and

  today

  World War II and

  Oxfam International

  Oxford University

  Palantir

  Panama

  pandemics. See also COVID-19

  Papua New Guinea, corporate tax rate in

  Parasite (Bong)

  Pardo, Ivan

  Parker, Sean

  Patagonia

  Pelletteria Artigianale Firenze della Famiglia Ascani

  Pennsylvania

  Pentagon. See US Department of Defense

  People’s Liberation Army of China

  Pfizer

  pharmaceutical companies

  philanthropy, corporations and

  Philippines

  Pilgrim’s Pride

  Pishevar, Shervin

  Plato

  political parties

  political polarization

  population explosion

  populism

  Portugal

  Postmates

  post–World War II era

  poultry “integrators”

  Powell, Lewis Jr.

  price manipulation

  privacy

  private equity

  Privy Council

  Proctor & Gamble

  Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO)

  profit shifting. See also tax havens

  “Project Maven”

  protest movements

  public education

  public infrastructure

  public policy

  public water system

  Putin, Vladimir

  Qatar

  Qualcomm

  Queens’ College, Cambridge

  rage

  Raytheon

  Reagan, Ronald

  Rebellion Defense

  Red Cross

  Remembrancer

  Republicans

  Reuters

  rideshare apps

  Rideshare Drivers United (RDU)

  roads

  Rolf, David

  Roman Empire

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roosevelt administration

  Roth, Philip

  Russia

  S&P 500 companies

  Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

  safety net programs

  Sandel, Michael

  Sanderson Farms

  Sands, Stafford

  Sanofi-Aventis

  Saudi Arabia

  Schimpf, Brian

  Schmidt, Eric

  Schwartz, Harvey

  Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

  self-sufficiency

  Selva, Paul

  Senegal

  SenseTime

  Serbia

  Setser, Brad

  Shannon, Tom

  Shared Security System

  shareholder capitalism

  absurdities of

  acceleration of after fall of Soviet Union

  environment and

  shareholder primacy

  shareholder value

  Shaxon, Nicholas

  short-term planning

  Silicon Valley

  Sinclair, Upton

  Singapore

  Smith, Alec

  Smith, Robert

  Smith-Holt, Nicole

  social contract

  broken

  corporations and

  democracy and

  in developing nations

  future

  history of

  individualization of

  international issues and

  labor and

  moral code and

  new

  origins of

  strong vs. weak

  terms of

  social impact, measuring

  social media. See also specific platforms

  social policy

  social responsibility. See also social contract

  Social Security

  Sodiam

  Solomon, David

  South Africa

  South Asia. See also specific countries

  South Carolina

  South Dakota

  South Korea

  Southwest Airlines

  Soviet Union. See also Cold War; Russia

  fall of

  grain embargo against

  Spain

  Sri Lanka

  stakeholder capitalism

  calls for turn to

  Nordic countries and


  Standard Oil

  Stanford University

  Stanley, Vincent

  Stansbury, Anna

  Starbucks

  state power. See governmental power

  Stiglitz, Joseph

  stock buybacks

  Stoller, Matt

  Stone, Oliver

  strikebreaking

  strikes

  Stripe

  Summers, Larry

  surveillance

  China and

  democracy and

  regulation of

  sustainable practices

  Sweden

  Swift, Jonathan

  Switzerland

  Syria, civil war in

  T-12

  Taibbi, Matt

  Tang dynasty

  Tao, Shawna

  Target

  TaskRabbit

  tax avoidance. See also tax evasion; tax havens

  Angola and

  cost of

  developing nations and. See also specific countries

  fixing the problem

  United States and

  Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

  taxes

  corporate socialism and

  formulary apportionment

  tax avoidance

  tax evasion

  tax giveaways

  tax havens

  tax laws

  unitary taxation

  tax evasion

  tax giveaways

  tax havens

  developing nations and

  history of the race to the bottom

  how it works

  organized crime and

  Tax Inspectors Without Borders

  Tax Justice Network

  tax laws

  taxpayers, corporate socialism and

  Teach for America

  Teamsters

  technology. See also artificial intelligence; cyber war

  industrialization and

  inequality and

  organized labor and

  race for dominance

  techno-authoritarianism

  “techno-democracies”

  technology transfer

  telecommunication companies

  Teles, Steven

  Tencent

  Thatcher, Margaret

  TheCityUK

  Thompson, Leonard

  Toronto General Hospital

  Touche Ross

  Toxic Substances Control Act (US)

  trade associations

  trade laws

  transfer pricing

  transportation

  Transportation Safety Administration (TSA)

  Treasury Department

  “Treaty of Detroit”

  Trumka, Richard

  Turkey

  Turks and Caicos

  Twitter

  “tyranny of merit”

  Tyson Foods

  Uber

  Uber China

  UBS

  Uganda

  Unified Approach

  Unilever

  union leaders

  Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW)

  unions. See also organized labor

  central and northern European model

  current state of

  demise of

  inequality and

  Mediterranean model

  problems and

  unitary taxation

  United Airlines

  United Arab Emirates (UAE)

  United Auto Workers (UAW)

  United Kingdom

  government service in

  organized labor in

  tax havens and

  United Nations

  United States. See also specific corporations; specific states

 

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