Thursday, August 14, 2014, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)
We already discussed Income Inequality last October, but it remains a hot topic, so we will revisit it next week. Since our last meeting on Inequality, French professor Thomas Piketty released Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It presented empirical evidence that Inequality has returned to pre-WW1 levels and is likely to increase. The book has fanned the flames of the Inequality debate and its English translation become a best seller in this country. Here is a quick video summary of the book.
For the next meeting, we will show and discuss excerpts from this Huffington Post interview of Picketty. It doesn't hurt that Elizabeth Warren is also there.
Linda has agreed to show the documentary "Inequality for All" in September - not sure exactly what date.
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From Ron:
ReplyDeleteMichael, take a look at this blog as a resource for the next meeting. Granted it focusses on gender and race, to me it also brings major aspects of Pickitty's tome into focus in a condensed way. Might lead to some interesting discussion. I, for one, find Picketty's audio text sorta dense. I did print out all of his charts, to my dismay. I'm using the backsides as scrap printing paper.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/180895/what-pikettys-capital-21st-century-missed?utm_source=Sailthru