Occupy Wall Street: Symptom or Source?

Friday, October 28, 2011
2:30 - 4 p.m.
KIPJ Theatre
Panel Discussion

PANELISTS AND MODERATOR
Joi Spencer, PhD, Learning and Teaching - Moderator
Stephen Conroy, PhD, Economics
Esteban del Rio, PhD, Communication Studies
Mary Doak, PhD, Theology and Religious Studies
Casey Dominguez, PhD, Political Science and International Relations
Patricia Marquez, PhD, Center for Peace and Commerce
Thomas Reifer, PhD, Sociology

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Occupy
• Wall
• Street

[mzwolinski]

Can't post the link, but it's at Bleeding Heart Libertarians, titled "Does Inequality Matter?"

[mzwolinski]

I'm interested in talking these issues over with others at USD. As a first pass, here's a blog post on the topic

[mzwolinski]

...another issue that many participants raise is income inequality. And here it's much less clear to me that there is a genuine injustice. The key question is this: is inequality of income *itself* unjust, or does it depend on how the inequality comes about? Is it unjust that someone like Sergey Brin makes much more money than us, given that made that money by giving the world Google?

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[mzwolinski]

There are a lot of issues raised in this video. One, raised by Professor Manion, is the way in which recent policies such as TARP have used the power of the state to transfer wealth from the many to the few, from the poor to the wealthy. I think there is a good deal of consensus across the political spectrum that policies like this are unjust. In fact, I think it's just that sort of issue that motivated many Tea Party participants.

But... (continued)