Jim Baldwin
Tuesday 9:30 – 11:30 AM
January 10 through February 14, 2006
Kendal @ Hanover Card Room
That's the title of Matthew Miller's 2003 best-seller about how to overcome the current sterility of American political discussion. His sub-title is"Fixing America’s Problems in Ways Liberals and Conservatives Can Love." Miller is one heckuva writer --- lively, original, non-academic yet carefully-researched. The core problems addressed are health care, poor schools, a living minimum wage, and campaign finance. Miller argues we could fix these problems for 2 cents on the dollar (i.e. , about $200 billion a year) - and still have a government with fewer employees than Ronald Reagan had.
We'll read and discuss the 300-pp. paperback update of the book, widely praised as a landmark attempt to move American political discussion onto a new center ground based on a fresh way of thinking about our goals and how to reach them. We'll also read a few critical book reviews by thinkers less enthusiastic than their peers
JIM BALDWIN is a retired economist who spent most of his career at the World Bank. He was educated at Princeton where he received a B.A. (history, politics, and economics); and at MIT where he earned a Ph.D. in Economics. Jim has been involved in teaching most of his adult life, even while at the World Bank. He has both taken and taught ILEAD courses in several different fields.
