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- noun Plural form of
redistribution .
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Examples
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I did not say anything at all about Mugabe's land 'redistributions'.
Dissident Voice 2009
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For the simple reason that if the state has the moral authority to redistribute property from one set of citizens to another set of citizens, all such redistributions are legislatively equal.
Matthew Yglesias » Senator Ensign Thinks States Can Cut Back Without Cutting Anything Back 2009
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However, in the domino effect of four further rounds of eliminations and redistributions, Ed finally won with 50.65% to his older brother's 49.35%.
Indra Adnan: How New Leader Ed Miliband Can Restore the Labour Family Indra Adnan 2010
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They parade with guns, they exclaim that relatively minor redistributions of wealth are socialism and fascism, they say that a health plan that fellates the private sector is a “government takeover of 1/6th of the economy”, etc.
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However, in the domino effect of four further rounds of eliminations and redistributions, Ed finally won with 50.65% to his older brother's 49.35%.
Indra Adnan: How New Leader Ed Miliband Can Restore the Labour Family Indra Adnan 2010
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The evolution of this constraint depends largely on the political system and while the system of most countries may delay a reaction long enough to impose the high social costs associated with large redistributions (the Argentinian experience in the past 70 years), I still believe the US system will cut social welfare benefits before these costs are high.
From Musgrave to Shaviro, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Today, it is widely accepted that the takeovers of the 1980s had a beneficial effect on the corporate sector and that efficiency gains, rather than redistributions from stakeholders to shareholders, explain why they appeared.
Bain Capital Saved America Daniel Henninger 2012
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After all, Reaganomics set in motion one of the largest wealth redistributions in American history, away from the poor and toward the rich.
New York Times Barely Touches Reagan's 100th; Unflattering When It Does Clay Waters 2011
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Removing the redistributions that occur now (as is advocated by many on this board) would certainly re-ignite that drive.
Envy, Happiness, and Social Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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First, the last 30 years of ideological preaching about the superiority of private, deregulated, market-driven capitalism served to enable and mask one of the largest and fastest upward redistributions of income in modern history.
How the 1% got richer, while the 99% got poorer | Richard Wolff 2011
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