{"id":811,"date":"2016-02-01T18:11:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T23:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/?p=811"},"modified":"2016-02-10T04:55:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T09:55:14","slug":"announcing-the-capitalismss-winter-reading-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Capitalism’s Winter Reading Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you mean to read that Piketty book<\/a> but OMG it looks long and hard? Did you want to read it again? Or just want to show off that you\u2019re reading a really long economics book? Whatever your reason, let’s read it together!<\/p>\n

We’ll be reading Thomas Piketty’s<\/a> Capital in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/i> over February and March, as the Capitalism\u2019s Winter Reading Group. If you think that sounds a little like 2009\u2019s Infinite Summer, I\u2019ll just remind you that great artist steal. (If you don\u2019t know about Capital in the Twenty-First Century<\/i>, follow a few of the links above. It\u2019s pretty interesting.)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it\u2019ll work: Next week, the second week of February, is going to be just the introduction and Chapter one, to give people time to get the book<\/a>, audiobook<\/a>, library copy, pirated edition<\/a>, or whatever, and join in. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll post an open thread for each chapter during the week for us to discuss the book as we go along. I\u2019m estimating 3-4 hours a week of reading time \u2014 not impossible, but a commitment. At that rate, we should have this 700 page behemoth done in eight weeks. That will get us finished just in time for spring, and to have new ideas after assimilating Piketty’s voluminous research. If that seems a little fast, just go slower! If you\u2019re late, join in! The discussion spaces will stay open for a while. <\/p>\n

This will be fun! OK, kind of geeky, but fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you mean to read that Piketty book but OMG it looks long and hard? Did you want to read it again? Or just want to show off that you\u2019re reading a really long economics book? Whatever your reason, let’s read it together! We’ll be reading Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century over February […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[181],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-cit21cen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}