At Occupy Boston Mark Blyth Asks: 'Should the Poor Insure the Rich?'

Institute Faculty Fellow Mark Blyth has one message amid recent Occupy Movement protests: The poor should not be the insurers of the rich. He has delivered this message in several settings.

Blyth dropped in on Occupy Boston protests on Friday, giving a lesson on economics to a section of the crowd that was temporarily renamed "Free School University," Reuters reports. The lesson, "Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street," was described on Facebook as a lesson in "how Wall Street interests have hijacked the debates of crisis and debt in the US and across the globe and in so doing have duped publics into thinking that austerity is the route to recovery and growth. Nothing could be further from the truth."

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[daleeasson]

Mark Blyth is a brilliant speaker!

[drkmwinters]

Thank you Mark Blyth. Please keep making videos! I've linked your Austerity talk at least 20 times. We need these explanations to counter the media dominance promoting the neo liberal capitalist agenda.

[Ubiscious]

Fundamentally, until we shift our norms concerning value, there will be no acceptable level of change. Human quality of life is more valuable when shared with the many. Right now, how many things in our cerebral societies are considered more valuable than human life, and quality of life? I love the movement! Check out the new revolutionary e-Book, "American Epitaph" for some perspective. Keep posting and God bless!