Given that income and wealth follow a Pareto distribution, the only way to improve the lot of the less well off is, one, to make the rich richer and, two, to teach the less well off how to better plug themselves into the economy and take advantage of it. The larger and more ...
This article is about the city. For the town, see Geneva (town), New York. Geneva is a city in Ontario and Seneca counties in the U.S. state of New York. It is located at the northern end of Seneca Lake; all land portions of the city are within Ontario County; the water portions are in Seneca County. The population was 13,261 at the 2010 census.
Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other philosophers and artists soon followed, further adding to the refinement of the city. On September 12, 1814 Geneva joined the Confederation of Switzerland and quickly grew as a banking hub and a leader of the industrial revolution in Europe. Toward the end of the century, in 1864, Henry Dunant founded the Red Cross laying the groundwork for the modern conception of the city as an international hub and champion of human rights.