The National Press clubs annual book fair and authors night in washington d. C. And later this month well be live from the Miami Book Fair on november 19th and 20th. Our coverage includes author discussions and callin programs featuring senator Bernie Sanders, fox news host dana perino and National Book Award Finalist coulson whitehead. For more information about the book fairs and festivals booktv will be covering and to watch previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] well, thank you, everyone, for coming. Were so well, on behalf of rick mcarthur, harpers magazine and book culture, were so pleased to be here to celebrate born on third base a 1 er makes the case for tackling inequality, bringing wealth home and committing to the common good. That author is Chuck Collins and, again, were so happy to have him here for our talk. Harpers magazine has a vested interest in keeping important written word in circulationing, and
Over the years. Can you see the western middle class so to speak increased their income from zero percent to 10 percent reedit but theres another graph as well, the red line. In the redline, compensates for Something Else. That population growth was bigger in poor countries and rich countries which means a lot of people took a larger part of every percent and it means that they, especially incomes of the population growth in asia, pushed the western middle class from the lower percentile into the higher so what used to be the 80th and 90th percentile of western middleclass people were replaced by the richest people in china. And they are still poor, some 60 percent as rich as the western middle classes which means it looks like its Income Growth is coming down in those areas as well but thats more an illusion that comes from population growth. If you keep population growth, if you pretend the population is stable over these years, the elephant wrath shifts to the redline instead and th
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Governments. You mentioned going to the arab regimes at the u. N. There have been lots of changes in the last several years of those government and i am wondering if you can give us an overview of where palestine stands in terms of those governments that are trying very hard to win support in washington particularly. Thank you very much for your time. Im with the institute of palestine studies. One question i know we are talking about the new leadership in the u. S. But there is also new leadership at the United Nations. The new secretarygeneral starting january. How is the palestinian leadership feeling about any roles he might have regarding a more active, more serious approach dealing with palestine. Thank you. Go ahead. Work the United Nations commission of refugees. From my perspective, it seems like there is already two states that exist in palestine. It is just that the Actual Community might not recognize it, but i believe you are in the same position as africa was under aparth
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