Abstract:In Dallas Smythe’s old stomping grounds of Simon Fraser University, Dr. Oscar Gandy delivered the 2015 Dallas Smythe Memorial lecture. Arguing that inequality deserves state action, he linked financial inequality to capabilities and then to inequalities in political capital. He proposed this problem can be solved by linking the interests of those who are benefiting from the current system to those who are being marginalized by it. This can be done by framing messages to elites with the intention of making po… Show more
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