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CSUSB economics professor writes about ‘The return of India’s super rich’ in op-ed pieceLiveMint.comSept. 21, 2017
Rishabh Kumar, assistant professor of economics at CSUSB, wrote in an opinion piece:
“A flurry of estimates regarding Indian inequality have captured public interest recently. Whether one believes the wealth inequality numbers presented by Credit Suisse or the distributional income accounts by Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty, evidence seems to state that India has high economic disparities. But inequality is to be expected in a developing economy with a largely informal labour force, turbulent capital markets and unequal access to education.”
The complete article can be read at “The return of India’s super rich.”
CSUSB professor comments on Milo Yiannopoulos’ ‘Free Speech Week’ at UC BerkeleyVICE NewsSept. 21, 2017
Brian Levin, a criminal justice professor at California State University, San Bernardino and director of the university’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, is quoted in an article about conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’ four-day event, dubbed “Free Speech Week,” at UC Berkeley Sept. 24-27.
Experts say that key figures in the increasingly varied and nuanced far-right — nationalist, alt-right, alt-lite, anti-globalist, white supremacist — are using the free speech issue as a way to rally their base and recruit supporters. And yet some argue that universities themselves are partly to blame for the fact that far-right personalities have fixated on American college campuses.
“Universities have done an abysmal job of getting legitimate conservative speakers onto campuses,” said Levin. “Universities need to embrace ideological diversity as much as they embrace demographic diversity. What they’re doing instead is killing the ability for students to learn critical analysis of positions they disagree with.”
That has helped fuel the victim narrative that far-right individuals promote, Levin said, and has transformed campuses into ideological powder kegs.
The complete article can be read at “What the ‘free speech’ movement wants.”
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