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Bryan Palmer in RRPE 7:2 suggests that Frederick W. Taylor's sys tem of management was never universally applied Palmer supports his assertion with an extensive review of concrete history In so doing he minimizes Taylorism as a gen eral system of management. The writer of the present note extends Palmer's work by comparing levels of generality He describes Taylorism as a general set of principles which are applied differently in each concrete corporate situation.

Comparing Piketty's inequality generating mechanism (r>g) to Marx's circuits of capital underscores a central difference: Marx wanted to replace capitalism while Piketty merely wants to fix it by taxing the rich. Piketty's discussion of slavery reifies human chattel's role in economic history. The failure to exclude the income of supermanagers as a return to labor may lead to an understatement of the inequality Piketty describes. Similarly, a brief mention of the environment without analysis of the wealth obtained from its abuse also understates the growth of inequality. JEL classification: D31, O15, P1, P3, Q51

The word "revolution" is used very differently by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley in their mainstream liberal work as opposed to the way David Harvey uses the word in his book where he advocates for a revolution by moving decision making away from the elite class currently in control to working people currently subject to those decisions. Both works see urban centers as loci of change. Both want very different changes.