Popularised by Yunus and Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, the idea of microfinance has spread all over the world, amassing powerful backers, such as Barack Obama.
Today, we live in a data-driven age, and some careful students of the connection between money and politics have now amassed a powerful body of evidence to support Brandeis's moral claim.
In a remarkable paper published in 1997, John Lott and David Mustard managed to set the agenda for much subsequent dataset work on the impact of guns on crime in America by creating a massive dataset of crime across all U.S. counties from 1977 through 1992 and by amassing a powerful statistical argument that state laws enabling citizens to carry concealed handguns had reduced crime.
Using an internet-first approach, Eilish has amassed a powerful teen following by adhering only to her most specific, and often strangest, musical whims, earning more than a billion total song streams already, before the release of her debut album last Friday.
Government officials there have amassed some powerful allies, including the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Latin American branch of the World Health Organization, which this year unveiled a plan to urge governments worldwide to eliminate trans fats.
Fact: There was a time, not so long ago, when Chinese foreign-policy strategists were guided above all by a powerful interest in "hiding their claws," as Deng Xiaoping used to say, to avoid encountering unnecessary resistance as they amassed power.
But as the cajas amassed power in Galicia, the tendency "turned out to be excessive control not by politicians but by a few bankers who got so powerful that even politicians became afraid of them," said Santiago Lago-Peñas, an economics professor at the University of Vigo.
Throughout 2006 Barroso asserted that he wanted a community that did real things for real people, rather than one in which politicians sought to amass more power and centralize it in Brussels by building ever-more-powerful EU institutions.
How did these agencies amass such power?
