Paul Krugman & Tony Atkinson in Conversation | Inequality and Economic Growth
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As we endure the slow, uneven recovery from the "Great Recession," there is no more critical or timely question than that of the relationship between economic growth and inequality. On May 20, 2013 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, two of the world's most preeminent economists discussed the connection between prosperity for some and poverty for others. Paul Krugman is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, a 2008 Nobel laureate, and an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times @NYTimeskrugman. He is the author of numerous books, including the recently published End This Depression Now! Sir Tony Atkinson, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, is one of the world's foremost scholars of inequality and the author or editor of more than thirty books on inequality and related topics. He recently coedited Top Incomes: A Global Perspective, a volume that analyses high-end income inequality around the world. Moderated by Chrystia Freeland, managing director and editor of consumer news at Thomson Reuters and author of Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else @cafreeland. Presented by the Advanced Research Collaborative @ARCCUNY and LIS @lisdata. ARC: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/arc ARC Commons: http://research.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ LIS: http://www.lisdatacenter.org/ LIS Center: http://liscenter.gc.cuny.edu/ GC: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/
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I wish the audio was better. It was difficult to understand Tony especially.
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This interview would have been much improved if the conversation between Krugman and Atkinson was direct, and not mediated by hair-flicking Chrystia....a completely superfluous addition in terms of a quality exploration...and annoying to boot.
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which of these people make less than a million a year
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not much of a conversation if you don't have a counter view. everybody on this panel are all related in some form or function(bias)
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SHE HAS SOME NICE LEGS!!!!
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SHE HAS SOME NICE LEGS!!!!
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ghey
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Notice no mention is in the title of the inexperienced unqualified, undignified and rabid dominatrix moderator; please mute her contribution or rather lack there of in any context she inaproprietly is incorporated into, in the future. Thank you world.
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the questions posed here are elementary ones which can be competently scrutinized and comprehended with aplomb and veracity by the novice, even a first grader. Requiring expert analysis of questions carefully marginalizing their obvious relationship to morality and the social compact obfuscates the certain obvious nature of the answers to such question. Inequality is dysfunctional stupefying and detrimental to any nation and will guarantee its sharp decline.
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I do not reply to drug takers.
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Guy asleep at 14:25
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Governments around the world spend around 50% of the worlds wealth, so the maximum any group can own is around 50%. All stats by communists as always are total lies.
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Communism is about the governeing elites controlling 1% of everything and the 99% being slaves. Communism has no compassion, look at Cuba and North korea. Hardly compassion just propaganda.
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People have wealth, not a nation. Income equality and inequality does not exist. Opportunity, rights and laws should all be equal, but the end result is none of anyone's business.
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Krugman seems to picture in his mind, rich business people as the myth embedded in American history of the robber barons.
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Wow, how can anyone beleave this B.S.
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Now I understand why some call him a communist! Krugman cares for people. That's not on the agena of the elite.
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does anyone take krugman seriously? i dont
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You have a point. It's distracting for no good reason. The seating arrangement might have been better with the two men sitting parallel to each other on one side and this host sort of facing them -- like on a 90 degree angle. Or simply have the camera person focus more on whomever is speaking excluding the others when they're silent.
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Whoever was in charge of audio did not do their job.
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