<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="">This week’s meeting of the AWARE group reading “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” will consider the penultimate chapter, “15. A Global Tax on Capital.”<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The chapter is outlined as follows:<br class=""><i class="">A Global Tax on Capital: A Useful Utopia <br class="">Democratic and Financial Transparency <br class="">A Simple Solution: Automatic Transmission of Banking Information <br class="">What Is the Purpose of a Tax on Capital? <br class="">A Blueprint for a European Wealth Tax <br class="">Capital Taxation in Historical Perspective <br class="">Alternative Forms of Regulation: Protectionism and Capital Controls<br class="">The Mystery of Chinese Capital Regulation <br class="">The Redistribution of Petroleum Rents <br class="">Redistribution through Immigration</i><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">Come and enjoy the fun. Piketty has been saving up - so to speak - for this, and the stage will be as littered with (economic) corpses as the last act of HAMLET. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Speaking of which, I will circulate some suggestions for texts to read in the fall semester. Since there’s an academic boycott underway of the Little University Around the Corner, someone has to cary the load. (A political reading of the Shakespeare plays is one of the suggestions.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For those who would like to catch up, 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=""><div class=""><br class="">Members and friends of AWARE are invited to participate in the discussion at 6pm on Wednesday 12 August at 5 Litchfield Lane in Champaign (regardless of whether they’ve read the text). My wife has made cookies much better (and more politically sound) than Victoria Nuland’s. <br class=""><br class="">Regards, CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PS - I asked a friend, a distinguished professor of French literature, how our author’s name should properly be pronounced.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">He said the name was probably originally English, but he pronounced it to rhyme (in my Anglophone ear) with ‘rickety’ - as in 'a rickety staircase’ - but with the accent postponed, or at least evened out. So I’ll try to say that from now on.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">###</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>