[Hac-announce] Conversations June 7, 2014 2:30 @ UUNH

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>From Cynthia Harvey, Coordinator                                                                                                                                           June
5, 2014
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Saturday Conversations will watch a video of  Thomas Piketty a French
academic economist is talking to the Institute of Economic Equity in
Washington, DC and a discussion follows.   Piketty's book “Capital
in the Twenty First Century” translated by Arthur Goldhammer. is
reported to have captured the attention of so many that Amazon was
unable to keep it in stock (for awhile.)   Paul Krugman, in April,
commented on a 'panic' among conservatives;  see reference below.
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>Amazon introduces Capital, “What
are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution
of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality,
the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth
lie at the heart of political economy.”  
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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zytqTSh3oGw
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>>>Apr
04, 2015  ---  Krugman on a 'panic' about Piketty's book. '....conservatives
are terrified. Thus James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise
Institute warns
in National Review that
Mr. Piketty’s work must be refuted, because otherwise it “will
spread among the clerisy1 and reshape the political economic landscape on which all future
policy battles will be waged.”…. what’s
really new about “Capital” is the way it demolishes that most
cherished of conservative myths, the insistence that we’re living
in a meritocracy in which great wealth is earned and deserved. 
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/opinion/krugman-the-piketty-panic.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C%5B%22RI%3A11%22%2C%22RI%3A17%22%5D&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2Fthomas%2Bpiketty%2F
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>>>Mar
10, 2014  ---  NYT Opinionator  ---  Stiglitz  “Inequality Is a
Choice.”   This long piece covers the statistics that describe the
current state of income inequality and declares, “ I
see us entering a world divided not just between the haves and
have-nots, but also between those countries that do nothing about it,
and those that do. Some countries will be successful in creating
shared prosperity — the only kind of prosperity that I believe is
truly sustainable. Others will let inequality run amok. ….”  
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>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/inequality-is-a-choice/?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C%5B%22RI%3A11%22%2C%22RI%3A17%22%5D&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2Fjoseph%2520e%2520stiglitz%2F
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