<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=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">Tonight’s meeting of the AWARE group reading “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” will begin the consideration of the pay-off (so to speak), the fourth and final part, “Regulating Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” beginning with chapter 13, "A Social State for the Twenty-First Century.” </font><div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">The chapter begins with the all-too-pertinent matter, "The Crisis of 2008 and the Return of the State.” Examine why both major political parties are neoliberal (as well as neoconservative) - and why we need a third party (or, to be fair, a second).<br class=""><br class=""></font><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">For those who would like to catch up, there is a summary of the book at <</span><a href="http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2014Capital21c.pdf" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2014Capital21c.pdf</a><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">> (h/t D. Green).</span><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class=""><br style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class=""><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">Members and friends of AWARE are invited to participate in the discussion at 6pm on Wednesday 29 July at 5 Litchfield Lane in Champaign (regardless of whether they’ve read the text). </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">Regards, CGE</span></div></body></html>