Audio Recordings

Audio Recordings

Rescuing Equality from Rawls: Gerald Allen Cohen

Gerald Allen Cohen of Oxford University speaks on "Rescuing Equality from Rawls."

Part 1   
Part 2

The Sawyer Seminar Series on the Dynamics of Inequality was generously funded by the Mellon Foundation and sponsored by the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, the Elfenworks Foundation, and IRiSS.

Equality, Inequality, and the Dynamics of Capitalism: William H. Sewell Jr

William H. Sewell Jr. of the University of Chicago speaks on "Equality, Inequality, and the Dynamics of Capitalism."

Intro
Part 1    
Part 2 

An Egalitarian Case for Closed Borders: Stephen Macedo

Stephen Macedo of Princeton University speaks on "Immigration and Inequality: An Egalitarian Case for Closed Borders?"

Listen now.

The Sawyer Seminar Series on the Dynamics of Inequality was generously funded by the Mellon Foundation and sponsored by the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, the Elfenworks Foundation, and IRiSS.

Civil Engagement: Robert Putnam

Robert Putnam of Harvard University speaks on "E Pluribus Unum: Civil Engagement in a World of Diversity." 

Part 1
Part 2 

The Sawyer Seminar Series on the Dynamics of Inequality was generously funded by the Mellon Foundation and sponsored by the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, the Elfenworks Foundation, and IRiSS.

Debate: Does Philanthropy Shortchange the Poor?

The Center hosts regular debates on trends in poverty and inequality, the future of poverty and inequality, and how poverty and inequality might be reduced.

Participants: 

  • Robert Reich, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
  • Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Listen now

Debate: Is Microlending the Answer?

The Center hosts regular debates on trends in poverty and inequality, the future of poverty and inequality, and how poverty and inequality might be reduced.

Participants: 

  • Eric Weaver, Executive Director, Lenders for Community Development
  • Tracey Pettengill Turner, Founder and General Manager, Microplace

Listen now

Debate: What Should Be Done About Discrimination by Beauty?

The Center hosts regular debates on trends in poverty and inequality, the future of poverty and inequality, and how poverty and inequality might be reduced.

Participants: 

  • Deborah Rhode, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Professor of Law, Stanford University
  • Richard T. Ford, George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Stanford University

Listen now

Debate: Why Do the Poor Get Sick?

The Center hosts regular debates on trends in poverty and inequality, the future of poverty and inequality, and how poverty and inequality might be reduced.

Participants: 

  • Sir Michael Marmot, Director, International Institute for Society and Health; Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College of London
  • Ralph Catalano, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, University of California - Berkeley

Listen now

Executive Compensation: What Should We Do?

Christopher Wimer introduces the Executive Compensation: What Should We Do? event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and hosted at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC on May 4, 2010.

Listen now.

Executive Compensation: Alex Edmans

Alex Edmans speaks at the Executive Compensation event sponsored by the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality and hosted at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC on May 4, 2010. 

Listen now.

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - Audio Recordings