Moreover, the concept of natural aristocracy, or meritocracy, has a powerful resonance even in the United States of America. ... (Dumhoff 1968 ) Leaders within Corporate America Researchers continue to seek ways to explain the image or the shape of the power structure in America, whether it is polylithic, monolithic, parallelograms, towers, or hexagons. ... According to research done by Middle American News, the Foundations set up by these rich and powerful families constitute a hidden economy of some $300 billion, a sum which exceeds the GDP of Switzerland and is used to bankroll elitist acti...

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Thus in the 1980s the urban problem seen as most important was that of economic decline/restructuring, the attendant high levels of unemployment and poverty that accompanied these processes were seen as significant but secondary in terms of a causal hierarchy, the basic assumption was `get the economics right' and the benefits will `trickle down' thereby automatically resolving the situation; the attendant problems of high unemployment were seen as a temporary problem that would be resolved once the economy was on the right track and thus a `price worth paying'. ... In rather si...

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