<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Tonight’s meeting of the AWARE group reading “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” will consider Part Three: "The Structure of Inequality” through Chapter 10 "Inequality of Capital Ownership.” Less abstract and more historical than it sounds, the chapter is quite readable.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, the author, Thomas Piketty, has been outspoken this week on the Greek crisis, e.g., </div><div class=""><<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/austerity-has-failed-an-open-letter-from-thomas-piketty-to-angela-merkel/" class="">http://www.thenation.com/article/austerity-has-failed-an-open-letter-from-thomas-piketty-to-angela-merkel/</a>>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is a summary of the book at <<a href="http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2014Capital21c.pdf" class="">http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2014Capital21c.pdf</a>> (h/t D. Green).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Members and friends of AWARE are invited to participate in the discussion on Wednesday 8 July at 5 Litchfield Lane in Champaign (regardless of whether they’ve read the text). —CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><br class=""></body></html>