[Peace-discuss] Piketty reading group - Wednesday 3 June, 6pm (note time change)

[C. G. Estabrook]

The AWARE group reading “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” will meet tonight, Wednesday 3 June, at 6pm at 5 Litchfield Lane in Champaign.

Reading for this week is the rest of "Part Two: The Dynamics of the Capital/Income Ratio": i.e., 
~ chapter 5 "The Capital/Income Ratio over the Long Run,” and 
~ chapter 6 "The Capital-Labor Split in the Twenty-First Century.” 

Both chapters are more readable and less daunting than they sound. 

On-line access: <http://resistir.info/livros/piketty_capital_in_the_21_century_2014.pdf>.

—CGE  


P.S. - a review by Joseph Stiglitz: <http://www.salon.com/2015/01/02/joseph_stiglitz_thomas_piketty_gets_income_inequality_wrong_partner/ <http://www.salon.com/2015/01/02/joseph_stiglitz_thomas_piketty_gets_income_inequality_wrong_partner/>>.

Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and a former chief economist of the World Bank. He is known for his critical view of the management of globalization, free-market economists (whom he calls "free market fundamentalists"), and some international institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Based on academic citations, Stiglitz is the 4th most influential economist in the world today. (The top three are Chicago-school neoliberals - Andrei Shleifer, James J. Heckman, and Robert J. Barro.) Stiglitz's work focuses on income distribution, asset risk management, corporate governance, and international trade. He is a severe critic of President’s Obama’s secret Trans-Pacific Partnership, which AWARE will be demonstrating against this Saturday, 2-4pm at Main & Neil in downtown Champaign. 


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