[lbo-talk] HuffPo: Occupy Wall Street, Faces Of Zuccotti Park: The Columbia Economics Professor

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Nov 15 05:49:47 PST 2011


On Nov 15, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Joseph Catron wrote:


> Even before it became clear that the economy was streaking toward
> disaster, Suresh Naidu figured something like this would happen. "It's
> been no secret in economics that inequality has gone up,” he said
> recently. Naidu is a professor of economics at Columbia University,
> and it seemed obvious to him that high inequality plus a high
> unemployment rate would result in political turmoil.

I'm proud to say that one of the reasons he became an economist was reading Wall Street.

Doug



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