Why do some people appear to obtain a disproportionate share of income and wealth? The French economist Thomas Piketty, in his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, frames the problem in a rather old-fashioned way as a tussle between capital and labour. His main thesis is that inequality is rising because the rate of return on capital, held disproportionately by the wealthy, exc…
Key drivers are the existence of several wellestablished preferred cotton programs and that cotton as a large volume material has been on the industry’s sustainability radar for many years. The market share of preferred virgin cotton increased from five percent of the total cotton production in 2012/13 to 25 percent in 2018/19. This growth equals an increase in global production volume of pre…