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An example of the Matthew Effect's role on social influence is an experiment by Salganik, Dodds, and Watts in which they created an experimental virtual market named MUSICLAB. In MUSICLAB, people could listen to music and choose to download the songs they enjoyed the most. The song choices were unknown songs produced by unknown bands.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is an aphorism attributed to Percy Bysshe Shelley. In A Defence of Poetry (1821, not published until 1840) Shelley remarked that the promoters of utility had exemplified the saying, "To him that hath, more shall be given; and from him that hath not, the little that he hath shall be taken away.
Actually, I've since noticed that there is more than one passage in the New Testament with similar wording. For the purposes of the article I'd say that the article is not primarily about "To him that hath shall be given," it's about "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer," and it seems to me that the essentials of what need to be said are:
Women of different classes performed different activities: rich urban women could be merchants like their husbands or even became money lenders; middle-class women worked in the textile, inn-keeping, shop-keeping, and brewing industries; while poorer women often peddled and huckstered foods and other merchandise in the market places, or worked ...
Matthew effect – The rich get richer and the poor get poorer; Neoclassical economics – Approach to economics; Neoliberalism – Renewal of unfettered capitalism as policy; Palace economy – Economic system in which most of the population's wealth is redistributed by a central group; Progressive tax – Higher tax on richer source
Truth: The Very Rich are Getting (Very) Richer In recent years, the wealthiest 1% of people worldwide have accumulated almost two-thirds of all new wealth created, according to an Oxfam study.
The She-She-She camps for women closed October 1, 1937. [22] The NYA (National Youth Administration) then in charge of the program, criticized the objectives and necessity of the camps and decided it was too expensive. As the crisis of hunger and shelter eased, the camp program for women could not be justified and it ended.
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