Thank you so much for joining us tonight. My name is kate brouns and on behalf of Harvard Bookstore i am so pleased to introduce this event tonight with robert reich, his new book the system who rigged it, how we fix it. Harvard bookstore brings authors and the book to a committee and our new virtual committed during this unprecedented. Our Event Schedule appears on a website where you can sign up for a newsletter and you can browse our bookshelves. This evenings discussions going to conclude with some time for questions. If you have a question for either of our speakers anytime during the talk goes to the ask your question but at the bottom of the screen and well get to as many as time allows. Also at the bottom of the screen during a presentation you will see a button to purchase the night featured book, the system. All sales to the sling support Harvard Bookstores so huge thank you for your support during this difficult time. Your purchases and your financial contributions are also
Archives. Visit booktv. Org for a complete schedule. And we now kick off with Professor William darity and Kirsten Mullin with their thoughts on reparations for africanamericans. Good afternoon, im director of the hutchens center on fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution. We gather here this afternoon virtually because of the covid plague to talk about reparations for africanamericans for the descendants of slaves. We planned this event before covid19 and, of course, william darity and Kirstin Mullen wrote the book long before covid19. Its worth noting that the coronavirus seems to be afflicting blacks much more than whites. Theres a piece in the journal of the American Medical Association which points out that more than half the covid19 cases in chicago and nearly 70 of the deaths involve black individuals although blacks make up only 30 of the population. Theres a story on the front page of the Washington Post today about contrasting the intensive care unit in afflue
Distinguished career she has brought her wideranging intelligence and feel for storytelling to some of her countrys leading intellectual and cultural institutions. She has served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, columnist for Financial Times and bloomberg news, she has taught economic history at the stern school of business. Now in addition to her prolific book writing, amity serves as a president ial scholar for kings college, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation, and in a big coup for us at michigan chairs the whole Selection Committee for the Manhattan Institute high outcries. An award she herself has won. Few decades have imprinted on the popular imagination quite as much as the 1960s and so many of us remember that decade for its most dramatic and turbulent moments. The assassinations of the kennedys and Martin Luther king jr. The march on washington and antiwar protests. Neil armstrong on the moon and fighting in vietnam. Amitys
Intellectual and cultural institutions read and he has served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, a columnist for the Financial Times and Bloomberg News and has taught economic history at this stern school of business. Now in addition to her prolific book writing amity serves as apresident ial scholar for kings carriage college, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation and in a coup forus at and i , chairs the Selection Committee or the Manhattan Institutes hyattprize, an award she herself has one. Amitys latest work , Great Society a new history is a stunningachievement. Few decades have imprinted on the popular imagination as much as the 1960s and so many of us remember that decade for its most dramatic and turbulent moments. The assassinations of the kennedys and Martinluther King jr. , march on washington and antiwar protests. Neil armstrong on the moon and fighting in vietnam. Amitys focus though is not the drama that played out on Telev
Page. It is great to be here with you all to celebrate and discuss an excellent new book by one of our countrys most original and insightful economic thinkers. Amity shlaes. Over the course of her distinguished career she has brought her wideranging intelligence and feel for storytelling to some of her countrys leading intellectual and cultural institutions. She has served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, columnist for Financial Times and bloomberg news, she has taught economic history at the stern school of business. Now in addition to her prolific book writing, amity serves as a president ial scholar for kings college, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation, and in a big coup for us at michigan chairs the whole Selection Committee for the Manhattan Institute high outcries. An award she herself has won. Few decades have imprinted on the popular imagination quite as much as the 1960s and so many of us remember that decade for its most dr