Friday, May 30, 2014

The antidote to Hillary Clinton?

One of the few bright (and honest) lights in the US Senate, and one of the most exciting economic thinkers of the moment:  Senator Elizabeth Warren and economist Thomas Piketty—author of the bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century—are sitting down for an intimate conversation about the roots of and solutions to economic inequality—and you can grab a front row seat!
Share this special invitation with everyone you know—this is a conversation we should all be a part of.

You can RSVP (to encourage them) here - and you can also post a question for the speakers to ponder and discuss.

I asked them this:  "One of the principal levers used by crony capitalism and its managed media to manipulate the public, is a regularly-stoked climate of Fear (as explored by sociologist Barry Glassner in “The Culture of Fear”, among others). This encourages people to be short-sighted and selfish in their political choices. What can be done to move the electorate towards more unselfish, co-operative attitudes to vital policy questions such as climate, energy, population and taxes?"

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