Lectures tagged "economic inequality"

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Time, Talent, Treasure, and Tradition in a Tight Economy
Meizhu Lui
March 14, 2009
00:27:43
Meizhu Lui, director of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative at the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, talks to the Women's Economic Forum at Simmons College about her new book, The Color of Wealth.
How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
James K. Galbraith
October 20, 2008
01:43:47
While liberals continue to believe in the free market, conservatives have abandoned it all together. If conservatives no longer take free markets seriously, why should liberals?
Barney Frank, Paul Krugman: What is Government's Role?
Barney Frank
April 28, 2008
01:26:02
Congressman Barney Frank and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman discuss the federal government's role in addressing economic and social problems, particularly growing inequality in our society.
Celebrating Difference: The Trouble With Diversity
Walter Benn Michaels
November 1, 2006
00:48:35
Author Walter Benn Michaels looks at how the concept of diversity raises obstacles to equality and full participation by African Americans, women, and other marginalized groups.