[Peace-discuss] Next Piketty reading group - Wednesday 17 June, 6pm

[C. G. Estabrook]

Last Wednesday’s meeting of the AWARE group reading “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” considered the rather difficult chapter 6, "The Capital-Labor Split in the Twenty-First Century” - aided by David Green’s notes, which are being circulated separately. (One can’t say “under separate cover” any more?) 

The next meeting will begin the consideration of "Part Three: The Structure of Inequality.” We’ll talk about chapter 7, "Inequality and Concentration: Preliminary Bearings.” On-line access to the book: <http://resistir.info/livros/piketty_capital_in_the_21_century_2014.pdf>.

The chapters are outlined at the end of the book. The outline of chapter 7 is as follows:

Vautrin’s Lesson (a literary reference-CGE)
The Key Question: Work or Inheritance? 
Inequalities with Respect to Labor and Capital 
Capital: Always More Unequally Distributed Than Labor
Inequalities and Concentration: Some Orders of Magnitude 
Lower, Middle, and Upper Classes 
Class Struggle or Centile Struggle? (We’re looking at you, D. Johnson)
Inequalities with Respect to Labor: Moderate Inequality? 
Inequalities with Respect to Capital: Extreme Inequality 
A Major Innovation: The Patrimonial Middle Class 
Inequality of Total Income: Two Worlds 
Problems of Synthetic Indices 
The Chaste Veil of Official Publications 
Back to “Social Tables” and Political Arithmetic

Members and friends of AWARE are invited to join the group at 6pm on Wednesday 17 June at 5 Litchfield Lane in Champaign (regardless of whether they’ve read the text).

—CGE  

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One of the best reviews of Piketty’s work as a whole appeared in the New York Review a year ago:
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/thomas-piketty-new-gilded-age/ <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/thomas-piketty-new-gilded-age/>>

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