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That’s Debatable: Is Corporate Wealth Out of Hand?

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The motion: Is it time to redistribute the wealth? Intelligence Squared host John Donvan moderates two teams of two. Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers go head-to-head on economic inequality, while former Greece Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Allison Schrager discuss the merits of revising the system. Everything from social safety nets to a wealth tax to massive new public sector investments are on the table. They all appear on the premiere episode of "That's Debatable."

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The motion: Is it time to redistribute the wealth? Intelligence Squared host John Donvan moderates two teams of two. Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers go head-to-head on economic inequality, while former Greece Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Allison Schrager discuss the merits of revising the system. Everything from social safety nets to a wealth tax to massive new public sector investments are on the table. They all appear on the premiere episode of "That's Debatable."
Yanis Varoufakis
An accidental economist Let me begin with a confession: I am a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist. But let’s take things one at a time.

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