Osher 2021 Session Three: Economic Inequality: Remedies

Session Three : Economic Inequality: Remedies

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Music:  Quiz: "Out of the Box" or "Look Down, " Les Miserables Link to Video

Gathering:  One remedy to income inequality from the reading that I liked was...

Rick’s Rap:

Video: "The Next System"  Link to Video

Review : • Collins and Reich remedies (see uploaded cheat sheet)
               • Clarifying questions on prescriptions

 Exercise: Remedy Consequences

           • Identify an idea that that might remedy the inequality issue 

           • Identify the consequences (intended & unintended) for the remedy

            

Closing: Something that I learned in this session was…..

Readings:

• Robert Reich, “How to Shrink Inequality,” The Nation, May 2014https://www.thenation.com/article/how-shrink-inequality/

• Chuck Collins, “Reversing Inequality,” summary, The Next Systems Project, 2017summary link
• Steven Rosenfeld, "37 Ways to Reform the Economy So its Not Rigged for the Rich, According to Progressive Economists,"Salon, 5/16/15 Link to article

Resources

• Institute for Policy Studies Link to site

• Roosevelt Institute- Link to Site

If democracy is someday to regain control of capitalism, it must start by recognizing that the concrete institutions in which democracy and capitalism are embedded need to be reinvented again and again.

Thomas Piketty, author  "Capitalism in the 21st Century"