This Week At Cafe
Professor James K. Galbraith of the University of Texas at Austin will be joining us to discuss his new book The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too.
Writes Galbraith:
The judicial coup of December 2000 that installed Bush and Cheney brought back some of Reagan's men and his most extreme policies - tax cuts for the wealthy, big increases in military spending, aggressive deregulation. But it didn't bring back the ideas. Instead, it became clear that Bush and Cheney had no real ideas, no larger public justification. They cut taxes to enrich their supporters. For the same reason, they outsourced to Blackwater and Halliburton and pursued military pipe dreams like Missile Defense..... Under Bush and Cheney, oil and gas, drug companies and defense contractors, insurers and usurers control the government of the United States, and it does what they want. This is the predator state.
Having chills yet?
Joining him will be Michael Lind of the New America Foundation, economist Thomas Palley, Susan Feiner, Professor of Economics and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine, journalist and former aide to President Clinton Sidney Blumenthal, economist Max Sawicky and Maggie Mahar, author of Bull! A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004. Discuss with us!
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Small correction: I'm no longer employed at EPI.
August 11, 2008 11:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry Max-- I'll fix right away!
August 11, 2008 12:22 PM | Reply | Permalink