Me Likey !!! - 'Elizabeth Warren To Appear With Economist Thomas Piketty'- HuffPo (w/Video)

[WillyT]

Elizabeth Warren To Appear With Economist Thomas Piketty
Ryan Grim - HuffPo
Posted: 05/21/2014 5:27 pm EDT Updated: 1 hour ago

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will appear at an event later this month in Boston with French economist Thomas Piketty, bringing together the authors of two books on economic inequality that have both vaulted to the top of the Amazon and New York Times best-seller lists.

The conversation between Warren and Piketty, to be aired on HuffPost Live, will take place at Boston's Old South Meeting House on May 31.

Warren's recent book, A Fighting Chance, has been on The New York Times best-seller list since its release, and nearly hit number 1 on Amazon's list, coming in second just behind Piketty's Capital In The 21st Century.

That Warren and Piketty's books have been topping the charts has fueled a sense that a new economic populism may be gaining broad public support in the face of a flagging economy and yawning economic inequality.

In particular, the success of Capital -- a 700-page economics book translated from the French -- has taken the publishing industry by storm and reshaped the political conversation around inequality. Piketty and other collaborators spent more than a decade putting together the most comprehensive data on income and wealth, going back more than 200 years. What Piketty found has shaken up the economics profession, which has argued for decades that capitalism naturally leads to reduced inequality at some undefined stage of development. Piketty argues to the contrary that the period of declining inequality in the middle of the 20th century was an anomaly rather than the norm, and that over the past two centuries, the return that the wealthy have earned on capital has been significantly larger than the growth of the overall economy. In short, the rich get richer.

Warren's book, meanwhile, was initially to be titled "Rigged," but she ultimately chose a more hopeful title, and her assertion that she will continue to do everything in her power to level the playing field on behalf of the middle class has only fueled speculation that she may make a bid for the White House in 2016. She has repeatedly said that she is not running for president, though couches her refusals in the present tense.

Warren praised Piketty's book at a reading in Boston...

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More (w/Video): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/21/elizabeth-warren-thomas-piketty_n_5367902.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[yallerdawg]

1. These two together...

could tilt the world off its axis -- a little to the left, I believe.

[WillyT]

2. Oh Please, Please, Please !!!!

[snagglepuss]

3. k and r

[malaise]

4. Me likey too

[cantbeserious]

5. Maybe Miracles Do Happen - At Least Hope Is Real A Possibility - Maybe

eom

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Permit me to point out one interesting quote from the article--

"She has repeatedly said that she is not running for president, though couches her refusals in the present tense."

[WillyT]

7. Seen That Movie For Years...

They ALL say that shit... Scott Walker, Chris Christie... to name two.

It's part of the dance.

[grasswire]

8. If only the pope could come along!

A shift in the tides is coming.

[woo me with science]

9. This is a good sign.

[elzenmahn]

10. Me Likey Too!

...if Piketty's book roused the Obama Administration, this should be an all-out wake up call.

[KoKo]

11. Good Stuff...maybe there will be a You Tube

later for those of us who can't watch it live at Huff Po..

[WillyT]

12. I Hope So Too...

[woo me with science]

13. K&R

[bvar22]

14. Momentum?

Did you see Jon Stewart's interview with Tim Geithner about the reasons for the Bail Out last night?
Geithner did not look good while pitching the cover story of WHY we had to Bail Out Wall Street
and leave Main Street hanging.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024986115