Stefan Lacmanovic – The Stanford Daily https://stanforddaily.com Breaking news from the Farm since 1892 Fri, 10 Mar 2017 06:55:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://stanforddaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-DailyIcon-CardinalRed.png?w=32 Stefan Lacmanovic – The Stanford Daily https://stanforddaily.com 32 32 204779320 Women’s lacrosse tense matchup against unranked William & Mary https://stanforddaily.com/2017/03/09/womens-lacrosse-tense-matchup-against-unranked-william-mary/ https://stanforddaily.com/2017/03/09/womens-lacrosse-tense-matchup-against-unranked-william-mary/#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2017 06:55:56 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/?p=1124729 No. 17 Stanford women’s lacrosse (5-2, Pac-12 1-0) outscored unranked William and Mary (1-5, D1-CAA) 17-13 after a fast-paced dual this Wednesday night at Cagan Stadium. The Cardinal finished strong despite a difficult defensive game during the second half.

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No. 17 Stanford women’s lacrosse (5-2, Pac-12 1-0) outscored unranked William and Mary (1-5, D1-CAA) 17-13 after a fast-paced dual this Wednesday night at Cagan Stadium. The Cardinal finished strong despite a difficult defensive game during the second half.

“The first half, we had a lot of momentum on our side,” said Stanford’s assistant coach Kristen Carr. Despite two initial goals made by William & Mary, Stanford outshot (21-9) and outdrew (8-5) the Tribe in the first half before entering halftime at 9-3. 

But, by the second half, momentum had shifted in favor of William and Mary: “They were definitely capitalizing on our mistakes and being aggressive [while] playing with an underdog mentality, with nothing to lose,” iterated Carr.

The Tribe totaled more draws, saves, and shots than the Cardinal in the second half, and even managed to close the goal gap to within 3 points with 8 minutes remaining.

“We were never losing the game, but sometimes it felt like we were back on our heels,” said Carr. “If we played them again, we would definitely have to clean up defensively.”

Recognition was given to the Cardinal draw takers who were able to gain valuable possession at the end of the game which helped lead the team to its 17-13 victory.  Sophomore Genesis Lucero finished the game with 7 total draw controls — a career high — and overall, Stanford outdrew William & Mary 17-15.

Highlights from the other side of the field include 4 controls apiece by Meredith Hughes and Cameron Macdonald. McKinley Wade made a career-high 5 goals for William & Mary. Shannon Quinn and McKinley Wade also scored 3 goals each.

However, despite the Tribe’s second-half effort, Stanford ended with more ground balls (19-11), totaled more draw controls, and outshot William and Mary 36-25.

Offensive highlights for the Cardinal include Kelsey Murray’s hat trick and Elizabeth Cusick’s career-tying four goals.

“Kelsey Murray made really big plays offensively – in transition of getting the ball back, and in key movements – she’s a good leader for us,” commented Carr.

The Cardinal prepared for the match by showing film, accounting for what William & Mary would do offensively, and preparing their own defensive strategy.

Stanford Women’s Lacrosse is set to host UConn this Saturday at 1PM. The Match will be held at at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium.

 

Contact Stefan Lacmanovic at stefanl ‘at’ stanford.edu

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Board of Trustees announces Redwood City campus plans https://stanforddaily.com/2015/12/17/board-of-trustees-announce-redwood-city-campus-plans/ https://stanforddaily.com/2015/12/17/board-of-trustees-announce-redwood-city-campus-plans/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2015 06:47:50 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/?p=1108564 The Board of Trustees, met on Thursday, Dec. 8 to discuss the plans for a new campus expansion, as well as other pertinent issues.

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The Board of Trustees, met on Tuesday, Dec. 8 to discuss the plans for a new campus expansion, as well as other pertinent issues.

The briefing was headed by Board of Trustees chairman Steven A. Denning MBA ’78, who revealed more about the new campus in Redwood City.

“We gave design approval to the first phase of Stanford in Redwood City,” Denning said. “We expect to grant construction approval in October 2016.”

“This is the first major expansion of the University outside of our 8,180-acre campus,” he added. “We’re building a little over 600,000 square feet, and we’ve got 1.5 million square feet [in total] already approved.”

The new campus is a 35-acre complex that will be located five miles from the main campus off of Highway 101 near the intersection of Woodside Road and Broadway, according to a recent Stanford News article.

According to Denning and the same article, the site will feature many amenities — modern offices, a pool, a fitness center, a park and a town square “quad.” Other features include BeWell programs, child care centers, shuttle service, traffic management systems and ample parking.

The project will hire between 2,200 and 2,400 employees across a variety of disciplines, said Denning.

These are employees who, according to Denning, “aren’t core to [Stanford’s] academic mission,” but are critical to the school’s logistic and finance management.

Among those whose offices will be relocated to the new campus is Randy Livingston, Stanford’s chief financial officer and University vice president for business affairs, according to the Stanford News article.

“This will free up corresponding space — teaching space — in core academic areas, [including] certain areas of the Stanford Research Park,” Denning said.

The land for the Redwood City Camps was purchased 11 years ago by the Board.

“We [were] at an all-time low point for real estate values here in the valley [in 2004],” Denning said. “We [saw] if we [could] find a spot where we [could] move some of our administrative functions.”

Denning and the Board of Trustees ended their overview of the Redwood City project by highlighting the Board of Trustees’s unique role in creating the Redwood City campus.

“Redwood City is a great example of an idea that emanated from the Board of Trustees,” Denning said.

“We’re trying to have [the new campus] feel like a part of Stanford because it is a part of Stanford,” he added.

The presidential search, sustainability efforts

The Board also discussed the continued search for a University president.

“We’re basically in the phase now of reviewing all the various nominees,” Denning said. “We’re now to a point where we’re beginning to call [people] on that list.”

Denning said the Board of Trustees is on track for an April or May announcement for a new president.

The Board also addressed Stanford’s plans for dealing with the possibility of a future earthquake.

“We would consider our single biggest risk the next earthquake,” Denning said. “It’s about a two-thirds risk that we will have an earthquake [in close proximity to Stanford] within the next 30 years.”

“We went through a variety of different scenarios to determine what kind of damage, business, interruptions and safety issues you would have under various magnitude of earthquakes,” he added.

The Board explained the steps Stanford is taking to address such a disruption.

“We’re currently building all of our buildings … to survive a reasonably [large] earthquake” Denning said. “We’re down to only one building on campus that is inadequate in withstanding an earthquake.”

“When you look at it from a public safety [and] engineering perspective, we’ve made phenomenal progress,” he added.

In addition to earthquake preparations, Denning also addressed how Stanford would continue its water conservation efforts in the midst of California’s drought.

These plans include the creation of the Codiga Resource Recovery Center, which is a four-bay water purification facility that will provide Stanford with water from four different recycled sources — raw sewage, micro-screened sewage, secondary effluent and non-potable lake water.

“[The Codiga Center] is a testbed for water and energy resource recovery,” Denning said. “It’s a state-of-the-art water recycling program.”

“Construction began in 2014. Expect [the recovery center] to open early next year,” he added. “It can purify 30 liters of water per minute, which is a reasonably high capacity.”

This project comes in light of Stanford’s larger focus on self-reliance.

“The commitment to sustainability is something that [Stanford] takes very seriously,” Denning said. “We’re in a real leadership position globally about how we operate this university.”

 

Contact Stefan Lacmanovic at stefanl ‘at’ stanford.edu.

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Administration, graduate student families discuss housing plans at town hall https://stanforddaily.com/2015/11/18/administration-graduate-student-families-discuss-additional-housing-at-town-hall-meeting/ https://stanforddaily.com/2015/11/18/administration-graduate-student-families-discuss-additional-housing-at-town-hall-meeting/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:37:44 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/?p=1107413 Graduate students with families and administrative members of the Student Housing division of Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE) met to discuss a construction project in Escondido Village in a town hall last Friday. Hosted by the Graduate Student Council Housing Committee, the meeting addressed the creation of new single graduate housing units in place of existing graduate family courtyard homes.

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R&DE administrators and  graduate student families discussed plans for additional housing in Escondido Village. (STEFAN LACMANOVIC/The Stanford Daily)
R&DE administrators and graduate student families discussed plans for additional housing in Escondido Village. (STEFAN LACMANOVIC/The Stanford Daily)

Graduate students with families and administrative members of the Student Housing division of Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE) met to discuss a construction project in Escondido Village in a town hall last Friday. Hosted by the R&DE, the meeting addressed the creation of new single graduate housing units in place of existing graduate family courtyard homes.

This project comes in light of a critical need for graduate student housing. Statistics from the R&DE 2015-2016 graduate housing lottery show that of 6,344 graduate students that applied for housing, 1,414 were not assigned a unit. Of those graduate students not assigned housing, 21 were families with children, 207 were couples without children, and 1,186 were single students.

According to vice provost of R&DE Shirley Everett, who presided over the meeting, this project will create 2,400 new graduate housing spaces at the cost of demolishing 400 spaces. This will create a net gain of 2,000 graduate living spaces primarily for singles.

Graduate housing units contain multiple living spaces, depending on the number of family members or roommates that live with each student.

The project would demolish 182 existing graduate family courtyard units in Escondido Village, according to the Student Housing powerpoint presented at the town hall meeting. Of the 426 current units, only 244 would remain after the proposed construction project.

“Our goal is to build graduate housing that takes into account the needs of our singles and couples while preserving housing for families in Escondido Village,” Everett said.

According to Everett, R&DE plans to house 75 percent of graduate students with the new development.

A Stanford News article from October said the new construction would likely be multi-story complexes built in the area of the Hoskins, Thoburn, McFarland and Hulme courts along Serra Street in Escondido Village.

The sudden notice

Many graduate students expressed discontent over the short notice Student Housing gave graduate student families in Escondido Village to secure their own housing during construction.

Luke Raymond, an electrical engineering graduate student, shared his frustration at the meeting about receiving a move-out notice in June, giving him only three months to relocate.

“I can’t think of another rental situation or contract, outside of something strange, where three months is sufficient [notice to move out],” Raymond said. “I even have to tell Stanford that I will be living in Escondido Village over six months ahead of time.”

Rodger Whitney, executive director of Student Housing, responded to Raymond’s question during the Q&A portion of the town hall by highlighting the recent origin of the construction plan.

“It’s really been on people’s minds for two to three months with an opportunity that allowed us to look at this as a potential problem [before] taking it to the Board of Trustees,” Whitney said.

Student relocations

Students also voiced concerns about relocations as a result of the construction plans. Everett responded that graduate families whose current houses will be impacted by the construction will be relocated to other family housing areas within Escondido Village.

Everett also wrote in an email to The Daily that many single students currently living in Escondido Village family courtyard housing affected by construction will be relocated to single graduate student housing locations after the project.

She explained why Escondido Village was chosen as the construction site for single graduate units.

“Stanford prioritizes the preservation of open space and intentionally uses available space in areas already developed,” Everett said. “[Stanford] rebuilds [housing units] with greater density and improved land use … to help house more students on campus.”

According to Everett, denser housing units will also help families impacted by the project relocate to other family courtyards.

Zacharia Rodgers, a management science and engineering Ph.D. student who is living with his spouse and children in Escondido Village, spoke on behalf of graduate students about the effectiveness of these plans in an interview with The Daily after the meeting.

“The current project would break housing for one set of students to fix housing for another,” Rodgers said. “None of us want housing at the expense of each other.”

“Many of us grad families want to emphasize that the graduate single and couple housing shortages absolutely must be fixed,” he later added in an email. “We are pleading with administration not to break family housing in the process!”

Loss of outdoor courtyards

Concerns were also raised about how the project would affect the family-friendly outdoor courtyards in Escondido Village, which have become a traditional staple of that graduate community over the years.

“The new arrangement destroys a little bit of the community we have,” one student said during the meeting. “In the future, what are some flexibility options we can create to have a courtyard atmosphere in those [housing units for graduate families]?”

According to Rodgers, many families were frustrated that they were not consulted during the process of deciding the construction site.

“We have community because we have courtyards,” Rodgers said. “It’s wonderful to come home and to have so much friendship with our courtyard neighbors. Our kids have friends, we have friends … The love that’s there is incredible.”

Additionally, Rodgers wondered why R&DE planned to take out the courtyards when other building options are available.

“People are choosing between Stanford and other elite schools,” Rodgers said. “[Courtyard communities] are the reason family students come here.”

Moving forward

The town hall meeting concluded with board members of Student Housing arranging for future weekly meetings with graduate families in light of tentative construction plans. Meetings will also be held with the Graduate Student Council and Graduate Housing Advisory Committee, according to Everett.

“Over the coming weeks and months, we will continue to engage graduate students to identify and address their concerns about this project and to solicit their suggestions for design and amenities that will meet the needs of all the residents of this community,” Everett said in an email to The Daily.

Administrators at the town addressed proposed plans to smooth this transition, including creating committees to address the issues.

“Moving forward, I think all of us students would like to see solutions from the administration that preserve the family housing community while creating much-needed housing for single and couple students,” Rodgers said.

Whitney addressed this sentiment by saying that R&DE would recreate the existing family courtyard atmosphere after construction.

“We will recreate the amenities and the programs and the courtyards and the playgrounds … the way [graduate families] have [these amenities] exactly right now,” Whitney said during the Q&A.

Students also asked about the finality of the plans, particularly the destruction of the outdoor courtyards.

“Remember, this [construction project] is still conceptual,” Everett said. “When we have a plan like this, there are lots of stakeholders … So, when we say conceptual, we mean it.”

 

Contact Stefan Lacmanovic at stefanl ‘at’ stanford.edu

 

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the town hall was hosted by the Graduate Student Council Housing Committee, a body that does not exist. The town hall was organized by R&DE. 

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Silicon Valley executive Jeffrey Donnelly MBA ’92 killed in bicycle accident https://stanforddaily.com/2015/11/09/silicon-valley-executive-jeffrey-donnelly-mba-92-killed-in-bicycle-accident/ https://stanforddaily.com/2015/11/09/silicon-valley-executive-jeffrey-donnelly-mba-92-killed-in-bicycle-accident/#respond Tue, 10 Nov 2015 06:52:07 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/?p=1106673 Jeffrey Donnelly MBA ’92, chief operating officer of Silicon Valley company Zeta Instruments, was fatally hit by a car last Tuesday while biking down Page Mill Road in Palo Alto, according to the Palo Alto Online.

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Jeffrey Donnelly MBA ’92, chief operating officer of Silicon Valley company Zeta Instruments, was fatally hit by a car last Tuesday while biking down Page Mill Road in Palo Alto, according to the Palo Alto Online.

A black 2014 Volkswagen Golf hit Donnelly around 6:50 a.m. The crash occurred near the intersection of Christopher Lane in Los Altos Hills. According to Lieutenant Zach Perron of the Palo Alto Police Department, this is actually a piece of unincorporated Santa Clara county land.

The driver, a 19-year old Palo Alto man, stayed at the scene. His name has since been released by the California Highway Patrol (CHP).

Neither drugs nor alcohol seemed to play a role in the accident, according to the San Jose Mercury News. CHP officer Art Montiel told the Mercury that the case is still under investigation.

The accident has called into question the safety of Palo Alto’s roads after years of proposed initiatives by county and city officials to improve vehicle traffic around Page Mill Road.

The City of Palo Alto released the “Page Mill Road Expressway Corridor Study Report in June 2015, and suggested improvements include a $17 million initiative to widen Page Mill to six lanes. Another is a provision for a $6 million trail on the south side of the road between Deer Creek Roadway and the I-280 Interchange.

However, despite these tentative initiatives, Palo Alto residents see the death of Donnelly as a sobering reminder of the dangers of day-to-day vehicle traffic. Long-time colleague and Zeta Instruments CEO Rusmin Kudinar commented on the situation in the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

“Everybody at work loved [Jeffrey],” Kudinar said. “He was a good man — a good friend. He was a very well-rounded, very bright person.”

Donnelly was previously a U.S. navy nuclear engineer officer for five years. He received his master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University. He started his career as a product line manager for Varian Medical Systems in 1993 before becoming the founding CEO of BlackHog Inc. — a venture-backed software company.

Donnelly is survived by his wife and three children.

Contact Stefan Lacmanovic at stefanl ‘at’ stanford.edu.

 

A previous version of this article stated that the accident occurred in Palo Alto. The accident occurred on unincorporated Santa Clara county land. The Daily regrets this error.

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Trustees compose letter for Paris Climate Conference https://stanforddaily.com/2015/11/02/trustees-compose-letter-for-paris-climate-conference/ https://stanforddaily.com/2015/11/02/trustees-compose-letter-for-paris-climate-conference/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2015 08:15:45 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/?p=1106107 Last Wednesday, Oct. 28, the Board of Trustees, published a letter addressed to France’s foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, in anticipation of the Paris Climate Conference (COP21).

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Last Wednesday, Oct. 28, the Board of Trustees published a letter addressed to France’s foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, in anticipation of the Paris Climate Conference (COP21).

The letter, signed by Steven Denning, chair of the Board of Trustees, and President John Hennessy, outlines steps that Stanford has taken to improve campus sustainability.

“We write to urge the global leaders participating in COP21 to look to our world’s research universities for climate change,” Hennessy said in the letter.

Hennessy went on to present Stanford’s achievements in sustainable development, including the completion of a $485 million new energy system that will help Stanford reduce campus greenhouse gas emissions by 68 percent by the end of 2016.

According to the letter, these projects are part of Stanford’s Energy System Innovations (SESI), a program that has since introduced a new plan to provide Stanford with 53 percent of its electricity from solar sources. SESI solutions also include this year’s installation of a $485 million heat recovery system that will save $420 million over the course of the next 35 years.

Jeffrey Wachtel ‘79, senior assistant to President Hennessy, was able to provide insight regarding these initiatives. 

“There are a number of faculty working on these [SESI programs],” Wachtel said. “They are part of the Woods Institute and the Precourt Institute. Graduate students are also involved in these projects.”

According to Wachtel, the hardest part of implementing these SESI projects was constructing Stanford’s new heat recovery system.

“We had to lay 22 miles of pipeline underneath the campus while still operating the University,” Wachtel said. “Converting to any new system is difficult, but this was particularly difficult.”

Wachtel highlighted recent student activism, especially from Fossil Free Stanford, and its role in sustainable campus initiatives.

“The students have had a very significant and positive impact on our approach [to sustainability],” Wachtel said. “In fact, as a result of the constructive discussions we’ve had with them, I think that was key to us coming up with this letter that we have sent to the Paris Conference… The students have played a key role to getting us to where we’re at.”

Wachtel responded to recent activities led by Fossil Free Stanford and the pledge to engage in civil disobedience if Stanford does not completely divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies by the start of the Paris Climate Conference on Nov. 30.

“I understand that it’s not moving as fast as the group would like,” Wachtel said. “But on the pace of divestment, we’re just not going to see eye to eye… There’s too much work and analysis that has to be done between now and the end of November for us to meet their deadline.”

Wachtel explained that the Environmental Subcommittee of the Panel on Investment Responsibility may look to divest from tar sands companies in the future. The divestment proposal follows the success of a coal divestment initiative by the University spurred by Fossil Free Stanford a few years ago.

Student activists see divestment as a crucial part of Stanford’s commitment to sustainable measures.

“We will continue to fight for full divestment because only full divestment achieves the ethical goals and the practical goals that are necessary in this fight for a safe climate,” said Josh Lappen ’17, faculty liaison for Fossil Free Stanford. “Divestment is, at its core, about de-legitimizing an industry which is willfully destabilizing our climate system.”

Similarly, Sijo Smith ’18, administration liaison for Fossil Free Stanford, commented on the Board of Trustees’ letter to Laurent Fabius.

“We are disappointed that the administration thinks that listing its achievements in green energy and clean technology is the best way to stand up for the communities that are at the front lines of climate change,” Smith said.  

Wachtel, however, believes that Stanford’s focus should be using less energy from fossil fuels rather than targeting companies as a whole.

“It is more direct and more defensible to try to use less fossil fuels than to pick companies we don’t know the whole story about,” Wachtel said. “Part of the analysis has to be, ‘Are any of these companies contributing to the solution?’”

Wachtel also highlighted the importance of the water conservation efforts described in the letter.

“We’re just so worried about the water conservation,” Wachtel said. “It just doesn’t feel right to be having the fountains flowing when we’re still in such a severe, severe drought.”

“One of the things we’re going to look at is whether or not we can have the fountains running periodically, maybe once a month,” Wachtel added. “That would be a good compromise.”

The dialogue between administrators and students surrounding sustainability is ongoing.

“I think that if students feel strongly about an issue, we respect their right to protest and to pursue their passion,” maintained Wachtel on behalf of Stanford’s administration.

Contact Stefan Lacmanovic at stefanl ‘at’ stanford.edu.

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French economist Thomas Piketty talks income inequality https://stanforddaily.com/2015/10/25/french-economist-thomas-piketty-talks-income-inequality/ https://stanforddaily.com/2015/10/25/french-economist-thomas-piketty-talks-income-inequality/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2015 06:05:04 +0000 https://stanforddaily.com/?p=1105641 Piketty lectured on his 2013 bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, last Friday in Memorial Auditorium. Capital explores wealth and income inequality in U.S. and western European economies. This lecture was part of a joint venture between the Stanford Economics Department and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, which hosted Piketty as part of their Kenneth Arrow lecture series.

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Thomas Piketty, a French economist, spoke Friday on growing inequality (STEFAN LACMANOVIC/The Stanford Daily).
Thomas Piketty, a French economist, spoke Friday on growing inequality (STEFAN LACMANOVIC/The Stanford Daily).

Thomas Piketty lectured on his 2013 bestseller, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” last Friday in Memorial Auditorium. “Capital” explores wealth and income inequality in U.S. and western European economies. This lecture was part of a joint venture between the Stanford Economics Department and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, which hosted Piketty as part of their Kenneth Arrow lecture series.

Piketty is currently a professor at the Paris School of Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics.

In addition to “Capital,” Piketty has written more than 12 books and has written numerous articles for publications such as the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review. His work focuses on the interactions between economic development and the distribution of wealth and income.

In a New York Times column, Paul Krugman, an American economist at the City University of New York, called “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” the “most important economics book of the year — and maybe the decade.”

In his lecture, Piketty stated that wealth and income inequality is increasing in the United States while, at the same time, decreasing in Europe. Piketty held that this inequality is due to the rising inequality of labor income, citing that the minimum wage in the U.S. today is much lower than that of 1960 after adjusting for economic conditions.

“The rise in U.S. inequality is mostly due to rising inequality of labor income,” Piketty said.

He claims this inequality can be attributed to changing supply and demand for skills, the race between education and technology, globalization, more unequal access to skills in the U.S. and the unprecedented rise of top managerial compensation.

Ultimately, Piketty proposed progressive taxation to remedy the United States’ wealth inequality. This requires revisiting the shared Western system of taxation, which he believes should be regulated in a more transparent and democratic way through a progressive tax. However, tax reforms are not enough to remedy wealth inequality, according to Piketty.

In his lecture, he refuted the popular interpretation of the “Kuznets Curve,” an economics graph that shows how income inequality eventually diminishes through the effects of market forces following the industrialization of a country. Piketty claims that in the U.S., wealth inequality is always much greater than income inequality.

Because the role of institutions and policies becomes more important when this wealth-capital ratio is greater, according to Piketty, only a broad-based approach such as the one he suggests can sufficiently address inequality.

“The ideal solution involves a broad combination of institutions, including progressive taxation, education, social and labor laws, financial transparency [and] economic democracy,” Piketty said.

Piketty maintained that other solutions, such as authoritarian political-economic controls, like those exercised by China, may not adequately address wealth inequality in the long run.

“In the long run, you need different groups rising at, more or less, the same speed [to eliminate economic equality],” Piketty said.

Piketty highlights what he calls a holistic interpretation of economic theory within the context of historical development. He views his work more as a social science. Various humorous remarks shed light on his criticism of economists, whom he says “often extrapolate economic trends from little data.”

He also feels that those in his line of work often try to over-complicate and quantify the study of economics as a science in instances where a more straightforward or humanistic approach should be used.

 

Contact Stefan Lacmanovic at stefanl ‘at’ stanford.edu.

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