Berkeley-based author Michael Lewis joins us to discuss his latest book, "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine." Lewis’ other books include "The Blind Side," "Moneyball," "Liar’s Poker" and "Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood."
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Michael Lewis on the Financial Crisis
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LIVE from the NYPL & The Aspen Institute Present: Capitalism and the Future
The President of the Aspen Institute, Walter Isaacson joined by Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of Money , Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google, and Nassim Taleb, scholar of randomness and risk and author of The Black Swan together will examine:
What will the American economic system look like in the months and years ahead?
Who are the innovators currently shaping the future?
What will be the role of business in that future?
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The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession
Andrew Gamble speaking at The London School of Economics July 2009
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Building out of a recession, part 2
Can we build our way out of the recession? The Empire State Building was started just weeks after the Wall Street Crash, giving Americans hope in times of depression. Jonathan Glancey, architecture correspondent for the Guardian newspaper in London, looks at the economic and social policies of the 1930s and the parallels we can find today.
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Shift Index Report 2009
Moira speaks woth John Hagel about the long term trends in technology and the economy. Hagel is Co-chair of Deloitte’s Center for the Edge and the lead author of the Shift Index Report 2009: Measuring the Forces of Long-Term Change.
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Cultural Obituaries: The Death of Boom Culture? (with Walter Benn Michaels, David Simon, Susan Straight, and Dale Peck)
Fiction in the Age of Inequality
Now that markets have proven a flawed index of our economic well being, our cultural life needs to look beyond the pat certainties of laissez faire ideology. Among the ills afflicting the American novel at the height of boom culture, Walter Benn Michaels argues, was a curatorial obsession with past oppressions—from slavery to the Holocaust to memoir-style accounts of family abuse. Writers should now be asking less about what it meant to oppose the Holocaust, he contends, and more about what it means to support free trade.
David Simon, creator of The Wire, and Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon, join Michaels and novelist-critic Dale Peck to discuss the social vision of contemporary storytelling.
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On Point: The Great Disruption
The U.S. stock market took a big jump yesterday, and everyone cheered.
Almost everyone.
There is a big school of thought out there that says we must not just bounce back from this downturn. We must come back changed. This isn’t just a great recession we’re in, they say. It’s “The Great Disruption” — nature and the economy hitting the wall, collapsing, at the same time.
Australian environmentalist Paul Gilding invented the phrase. American climate expert Joseph Romm says the free ride is over.
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2009/03/creative-disruption/
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NPR’s Planet Money - Japan’s Lost Lesson
Japan spent the 1990s slogging through the economic doldrums. Economist Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute says the misery could have been cut to three years if policymakers had acted boldly. Posen, author of Japan’s Financial Crisis and Its Parallels to U.S. Experience, says the Obama administration needs to get more aggressive with banks.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/02/hear_japans_lost_lesson.html
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RWW Live: Shopping 2.0
In this episode of RWW Live, ReadWriteWeb talks to a group of leaders in the online shopping market. We have executives from Retrevo, ModCloth, Baynote, ThisNext and Cartfly on the call to discuss what’s next in online shopping in this timely holiday podcast.
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On Point - 2009: The Year Ahead
One year ago, at the dawn of 2008, we knew we had problems, but thought we might skate through them. Now we know better. The economy was the big bombshell, and that’s not over. Wars and power shifts fill out the picture.
So what about 2009? Is this the year of turnaround? On Wall Street? Main Street? Afghanistan and beyond? Or more woe?
This hour we’ll peer into 2009 with big thinkers Laura Tyson, on the economy, and Noah Feldman, on world affairs.
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