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

Stuart Levy stuartnlevy at gmail.com
Thu May 28 14:11:54 EDT 2015


I don't understand - what are you hoping not to receive?   Carl is 
announcing the proceedings of an AWARE reading group, and letting people 
know what to read for next week.

On 5/28/15 11:47 AM, ya'aQov wrote:
> Stuart,
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> I am NOT a member of the occupycu, peace-discuss lists.
> I am a member of peace, so that i get announcements NOT 
> discussions/comments.
> ​ i chose this per your policy, that discussions will NOT be posted in 
> peace.
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> Since you monitor postings​, why am I getting postings I vouched to 
> NOT get?
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> Thank you.
> Ya'aqov
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> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:23 AM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace 
> <peace at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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>     Last night’s meeting of the AWARE group reading “Capital in the
>     Twenty-First Century” was well-attended and lively.
>
>     David Green asserted that Piketty is a bit cavalier in his
>     conflation of use-value and exchange-value in his conception of
>     capital (= wealth).
>     David Johnson asserted that Piketty seems not to pay enough
>     attention to the machinations of capitalists (aka the 1%) today.
>     A specter is haunting our European/American discussion - the
>     specter of the OMBM (Old Man in the British Museum).
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>     Members & friends of AWARE are invited to join the group. The next
>     meeting is 6pm Wednesday 3 June at 5 Litchfield Lane in Champaign.
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>     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.
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>     On-line access:
>     <http://resistir.info/livros/piketty_capital_in_the_21_century_2014.pdf>.
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>     —CGE
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>     PS - A critique (mentioned last night) by an MIT grad student is
>     discussed at
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>     <http://www.vox.com/2015/4/1/8320937/this-26-year-old-grad-student-didnt-really-debunk-piketty-but-what-he>.
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