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economic inequality

Economist Piketty Offers Bold New Perspective on Inequality

May 16, 2014 by David Brodwin Leave a Comment

In a tour de force of economic analysis that has swept Washington, a 42-year-old French economist has upended conventional wisdom about the causes and consequences of inequality. Tom Piketty’s new book, “Capital in the Twenty-first Century,” quickly hit the New York Times best seller list and earned its author a seat at the table with […]

Filed Under: Classism in the Economy, Corporate power, Politics and Class Tagged With: economic inequality, policy, trickle down

Felice’s mission of making classism a diversity issue

January 17, 2011 by Betsy Leondar-Wright

When Felice Yeskel started graduate school in the 1980s, she was outraged that the Social Issues Training Project at the UMass Education School omitted classism from its curriculum. Every aspiring diversity trainer had to practice facilitating two-day workshops on sexism, racism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism and anti-Semitism – but not classism. Felice had been severely oppressed […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Classism in Diversity Work Tagged With: classism, diversity workshops, economic inequality, Felice Yeskel, Walter Benn Michaels

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