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The Robin Hood effect is an economic occurrence where income is redistributed so that economic inequality is reduced. That is a redistribution of economic resources due to which the economically disadvantaged gain at the expense of the economically advantaged. [ 1 ]
Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted ... Dobson and Taylor credit Ritson with having 'an incalculable effect in promoting the still continuing ...
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It is the year of the retail investor, and listed shipowners, like other public companies, have seen a wave of newcomers buy their stock.Shipowners are happy. They need all the buyers they can get ...
This phenomenon is also called an inverse steal or Robin Hood effect as cerebral perfusion to all parts of the brain is reduced (due to the decreased cerebrovascular response to carbon dioxide) allowing optimal perfusion to ischaemic areas of the brain which have higher metabolic demands, since vessels supplying ischaemic areas of the brain ...
Robin Hood is an English folk hero said to have stolen from the rich to give to the poor. Redistributive taxes have thus long been called Robin Hood taxes. In 2001, the charity War on Want released The Robin Hood Tax, [11] an earlier proposal presenting their case for a currency transaction tax.
Robin Hood effect, the result in economics of an income redistribution scheme Robin Hood plan , the school funding system in Texas which "recaptures" tax money from "wealthy" school districts for redistribution to "poorer" ones
The following day, Chicago Police Detectives Ed Landis and Richard Barrett transported Roe to a court appearance. According to Detective Barrett's son, DEA agent Rick Barrett, "My Dad said the people of the neighborhood loved Roe. He was like a Robin Hood to them. Dad always said Roe was 'respected' because he refused to give in to the Italians ...