Elites Research Network
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The New York Times has a blog post and a news article about a Columbia University conference of academics called the "Elites Research Network," which "drew in scholars focused on inequality across academic disciplines, like economics, political science, sociology and history."

From the blog post: "One of the academics at the conference, Sudhir Venkatesh, a professor of sociology at Columbia, argued, 'You have to come in accepting that there will always be poor people in society and there will always be wealthy people in society, and neither of the two reached that status by their own efforts.'"

If Professor Venketesh really believes this, he should also believe that tenured professors at Ivy League universities don't reach that status by their own efforts, either.

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Elites Research Network
futureofcapitalism.com

The New York Times has a blog post and a news article about a Columbia University conference of academics called the "Elites Research Network," which "drew in scholars focused on inequality across academic disciplines, like economics, political science, sociology and history."

From the blog post: "One of the academics at the conference, Sudhir Venkatesh, a professor of sociology at Columbia, argued, 'You have to come in accepting that there will always be poor people in society and there will always be wealthy people in society, and neither of the two reached that status by their own efforts.'"

If Professor Venketesh really believes this, he should also believe that tenured professors at Ivy League universities don't reach that status by their own efforts, either.

From the article:

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