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Friday, June 26, 2009
The Denver Forum Proudly Presents:
Lew Daly
Author of and Speaking on: “Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back”
12-Noon Luncheon
Oxford Hotel
1600 17th Street
Grand Ballroom (enter off Wazee)
Members: $30, Non-Members, $45
Phone Reservations: 303-832-9030
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Biographical Brief -- Lew Daly
 Lew Daly is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Fellows Program at Demos. A writer on religion, political development, and economic thought, Daly`s recent books include "Godless Economy" (University of Chicago Press, 2009), a comparative study of church-state law and welfare governance in Europe and the United States.
He is also the author of "God and the Welfare State" (The MIT Press, 2006), and has published articles, reviews, and commentary in many publications, including Dissent, The Boston Review, Theoria, The Journal of Markets & Morality, Sightings, and Church & Society.
Daly was previously a fellow of the Schumann Center for Media & Democracy, where he worked closely with then-president Bill Moyers on special projects. He formerly worked as a research consultant with the Democracy Collaborative of the University of Maryland, and as a researcher and strategist on religious advocacy.
In the mid-1990s, Daly did pastoral work in a federal prison as well as community organizing on labor issues. With a B.A. degree from Oberlin College, he holds advanced degrees from Brown University, the University at Buffalo, and Union Theological Seminary.
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The viewpoint presented in this important and provocative book by Alperovitz and Daly should alter the current public discourse on income distribution.
—Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences
Rarely do the facts of the matter so illuminate a moral truth as they do in Unjust Deserts. Quite simply, this book changes the fundamental terms of reference for future debates about inequality. It convincingly demonstrates that knowledge is the primary source of our national wealth, with or without the elites at the top who claim the lion’s share. In a surprising yet persuasive way, Alperovitz and Daly help us understand what this reality means, and the values at stake, in a nation growing more unequal with each passing day. This book opens an extraordinary new vista on the moral bankruptcy of our second Gilded Age.
—Bill Moyers |
