I am sitting in the prochansky auditorium as its filling up. I am also listening to Ladyhawke. Damn, I love her album.
One of my favorite customers from the store, a Miss Jane Jacobs (not the dead one) is a few rows behind me in the audience. What an interesting coincidence. Ok, I am ready for this to start!
And they’re out! The president of CUNY is telling us all about how CUNY is big and has 240,000 Undergrads.
One of the panelists looks like he’s falling asleep, but I think he’s just writing or reading something. But his head is a little tilted, so looks are deceiving.
So, small biographies. These are all very important people- de Soto is chair of the Fed of Peru. Klein we know. Stiglitz has won a Nobel and works at Columbia.
Okay, so the panel was very interesting. Klein and Stiglitz were pretty amazing. They were on point and Naomi brought up an excellent point about Indian Oranizers coming to New Orleans post katrina. She said the organizers said that if this had happened in India, there would be massive protests, but we did not have such a thing happening. They supported Obama and talked about the death knell of free market capitalism. Naomi was gracious and did not plug her book, instead praising Stiglitz for his Nobel. The problem was de Soto. He had one talking point and that was it. He talked about property rights. He’s some kind of libertarian south american economist. Except I guess he’s kind of like al-Maliki of Iraq, who spent tons of time in america and then came back to rescue his home country. de Soto had a very clean european accent. He actually said that Katrina wasn’t had bad because at least we knew who owned the houses that was ruined. I spoke to a friend who’d also attended the Panel afterwards and she was also mad at de Soto for hijacking the Panel. The moderator was not forceful enough in enforcing the topic at hand. All in all, I learned a lot, but I wish Klein and Stiglitz were the only ones there.
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October 22nd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
looking forward for more information about this. thanks for sharing. Eugene
February 1st, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Discussion around Economic Power isn’t it???
De Soto cannot understand the difference between technics and ethics…
Btw u forgot to say that David Harvey moderated
CIao
June 25th, 2009 at 12:27 am
omg - just read this on june 24th, 2009.
pull your head out and read DeSoto. you like the f..ing idiots in the libertaian and progressive and liberal camps all jump on something and then close your ears off and rant idiologies.
part way in desoto talked about the term private property and why he uses it, and he uses it NOT in a libertarian way.
and he says our current crisis is because of the non use of the legal system on the derivativies - toxic assests - at the top. Desoto says that it is because we have abandoned the structure and let the idiots run wild and not be accountable that we are in trouble.
Seems he is right on.
please pull your head out of your idiology and listen to the sense of what he says