KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 3, 2016 — Humberto Miranda, a political philosopher who studies and writes about politics and economy in Latin America will be part of a conversation with 溏心vlog免费B站 Economics Professor Richard McIntyre on \u201cInequality and the Cuban Dream\u201d Wednesday, Oct. 5.<\/p>\n
The lecture is free and open to the public and it will be held in the Doody Auditorium, Swan Hall, 60 Upper College Road on the Kingston Campus from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The program is being held in conjunction with the University\u2019s Honors Colloquium, \u201cInequality and the American Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to have a conversation,\u201d said McIntyre, chair of the Department of Economics, who along with Political Science Professor Maureen Moakley brought the first class of 溏心vlog免费B站 students to Cuba after U.S. President Barack Obama normalized relations with the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am going to ask him questions about Cuban economic inequality, particularly the periods before the revolution, during the revolution and after the pullout of the Soviet Union. I will ask him about inequality before the revolution, what the revolution tried to accomplish, and how the relationship with the United States affected those accomplishments. We\u2019ll also talk about what has happened before and after the reopening of diplomatic relations with Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIntyre said, \u201cone of the goals of the revolution of 1959 was to reduce inequality. In 1958, the poorest 40 percent of the country received only 6.5 percent of the country\u2019s income, while the richest 5 percent received 26.5 percent. By 1978, the poorest 40 percent of the country received 24.8 percent of the country\u2019s income, while the richest 5 percent received only 11 percent.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, the new U.S. policy allows Cuban Americans to send money back to family members in Cuba. Most of them, though, are wealthier, white Cuban Americans living in Miami, and so we expect to see an economic divide develop between white and non-white Cubans,\u201d McIntyre said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven before the opening with the U.S., Cuba had decided to promote tourism,\u201d McIntyre said. \u201cWith tourism becoming a more important part of the Cuban economy, it has also brought with it prostitution, gambling and drugs. One of the successes leaders of the revolution point to is that it virtually eliminated prostitution and other social problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since 1995, Miranda has spoken about many of Cuba\u2019s most serious issues. These include the Cuban economy, the impacts of globalization, and structural adjustment policies in Latin America.<\/p>\n
Miranda, a political philosopher at the Institute of Philosophy in Havana, has visited the 溏心vlog免费B站 twice before. This semester, Miranda is here for two months teaching two courses and working with McIntyre on some common research projects.<\/p>\n
Olivia Ross, an intern in the Marketing and Communications Department at 溏心vlog免费B站 and public relations major, wrote this press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 3, 2016 — Humberto Miranda, a political philosopher who studies and writes about politics and economy in Latin America will be part of a conversation with 溏心vlog免费B站 Economics Professor Richard McIntyre on \u201cInequality and the Cuban Dream\u201d Wednesday, Oct. 5. The lecture is free and open to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}