Look, protecting the middleclass society used to be the democrats holy mission. Once upon a time they wouldve looked at the situation we are in today, rolled up their sleeves and tackle the situation with a certain amount of relish. Shared prosperity was once the parties highest aim area defending the middleclass world that we live in was a sacred path for them as they never tired of reminded us back in the days of truman and albie jay. To this day, democrats are the ones that pledged to raise the minimum wage in the taxes of the rich. When it comes to tackling the defining challenge of our time many of our modern Democratic Leaders faltered. They acknowledge that inequality is rampant and it is an awful thing but they can never seem to find the conviction or the imagination to do whats necessary to reverse it. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] i get everyones attention. I am keith, im the director of the progra
[inaudible] i get everyones attention. I am keith, im the director of the program here at george university. Today we are thrilled we have Deirdre Mccloskey and and conversation with my good colleague tom, deirdre has come out with a third volume of her trilogy the bourgeois inequality, well talk about that in the introduction but i want to personally congratulate deirdre on this collection. I think it is the most ambitious work and economics done done during my career at least in economics and an amazing achievements for what you have done and generating the conversation in economics. Hopefully hopefully well have a great conversation today. Will turn it over. Thank you. When Claire Morgan asked me if i would lead, conduct a conversation with deidre immediately jumped at the opportunity, not only is it an honor, but there are a few books that one reads in a scholarly life that is as fundamentally changed or deeply change the way that you look at the world. These books have done that f
Is that something youd address . In that that very chapter. This is part of the war on woman that is fiction. Mostly driven by abortion. They do not want to talk about the fact that women are basically evenly split on abortion but theyre overwhelmingly opposed to it. They want to have that issue because its not convenient to them. So they dress up all of these other questions and put other accusations but we can get all one can talk about economic studies and the reason behind, we been debunked most the times over theres an economist whos been part of that in the white house itself judges women by their own standard. So its purely by so we have your back, and they dont like you, they dont represent you in the hope that the details get glossed over. I would argue theres plenty of discussions to be had when there is a gap. Occasionally gap. Occasionally will look at the Economic Analysis and not just say, white house economist under obama has said thats not really the whole story. Its no
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The road between lee and meal parkway the accident completely shut them in the area up. We will get more information for you as we can. Stop at the university of Akron Jessica joins us now in the republican president ial nominee even took the stage an hour early and came out with doing we try is that coming up in the next halfhour. Co fundraising dinners and a latenight tvra appearance some familiar issues continued am familiar issues continue to dog her campaignss fbi has uncovered nearly 15,000 more documents with herncer private email serr the state department will take a look meanwhile more changes will come to the Clinton Foundation president bill clinton says he will reduce his direct involvement in the charity and no longer acceptss paid speaking engagements. I knew this morning . Another smash and grab under investigation this time on the citys west side. The thieves did not get away with much, but they did leave a lot of damage behind dreading right through a driving way throu