In particular, he says, excessive inequality can have two perverse consequences: first, the very wealthy lobby for favors, contracts and bailouts that distort markets; and, second, growing inequality undermines the ability of the poorest to invest in their own education.
The U.S. has one heck of a perverse immigration policy: We wink and nod at the illegal entry of non-English-speaking, uneducated workers, while turning our backs on scientists, doctors, geneticists, engineers the next generation of Andy Groves and Jerry Yangs.
They see the commission as an essential check on the behaviour of the larger countries.Parliament's outburst this past month may thus have one near-perverse result.
"It's really complicated, because you have two people coming together with very similar, perverse fantasies," said Arthur Kreuzer, the director of the Institute for the Study of Criminology at Giessen University.
A couple of years ago, in a column about the perverse economics of the student-loan business, I wrote, "For decades, student-loan companies have had one of the cushiest businesses in America".
There are also two perverse consequences of the U.S. crisis that are stirring Mexican ire.
On its face the program order might have seemed perverse: two symphonies followed by an overture.
In all these cases, they conclude, the ACLU's defence of individual rights has perverse consequences.In one case in Chicago, the ACLU sued to protect the right of people living in low-income housing to be free from mass building searches.
By turns brilliant, stubborn, and enragingly perverse, he has learned two big lessons from his life and from his long immersion in the Western canon: one, geniuses do not need to compromise; two, wise boys never share their toys.
