Monday, October 27, 2008

Dialectica Notes: Show Seven - Financial Crisis Fallout

Host/Producer:

James Tanner


Interview Subjects:


Dr. James Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and author, The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too.

Dr. Robert Auerbach, LBJ Professor of Public Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and author, Deception and Abuse at the Fed: Henry B. Gonzales Battles Alan Greenspan's Bank.


Media:

sound clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Special Edition. Dirs. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. Perf. Eric Idle. Sony Pictures, 2001.

Blackshaw, James. "Spiralling Skeleton Memorial". O True Believers. Important Records, 2007.

The Field. "Silent". From Here We Go Sublime. Kompact Germany, 2008.

Midlake. "Roscoe". The Trials of Van Occupanther. Bella Union Records, 2006.


For more information about the financial crisis, consider the following online resources:

Bill Clinton's defense of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act of 1999 is here.

Chicago Public Radio's This American Life podcast - the episodes on 05/09/2008 (The Giant Pool of Money) and 10/03/2008 (Another Frightening Show On the Economy)

NPR's Planet Money blog & podcast

Greg Mankiw's Blog

Paul Krugman's Blog

Calculated Risk (economics blog)

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