Book Clubbing With Paul Krugman
This week at Cafe, Paul Krugman is joining us to talk about his new book The Return Of Depression Economics And The Crisis of 2008-- a revised version of his 1999 book. The first version focused on Asia and Latin America-- this one turns its gaze on our current economic troubles and America.
Paul's first post will be up shortly, and he'll introduce the discussion. In the meantime, check out his Nobel Prize lecture, which he recently delivered in Stockholm on December 8th.
We've roped in a great group of economists to discuss with Paul all week: Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University; Brad DeLong, professor of economics at UC Berkeley, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury in the Clinton Administration; Robert Reich, professor at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and former U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997; Dana Chasin, Senior Policy Advisor at OMB Watch; Jo-Ann Mort, the founder and CEO of ChangeCommunications, Randall Wray, professor of economics and research director at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability at the University of Missouri-Kansas City; Mark Thoma, associate professor of economics at the University of Oregon; and Susan Feiner, professor of economics and women's and gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine.
This is great news. I have read him for years but not since I got on line did I get to read the NYT with his column. I knew I was right about him when Joe Scarborough castigated the Nobel people for giving him a prize. The right hates him.
Why do they hate him? Because he tells the truth.
I really look forward to this series.
December 15, 2008 3:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lila, this is a bit off-topic, but it came up several times last week. Josh really needs to add Arab/Muslim commentators/bloggers on Middle East affairs. I don't have names for you, Lally probably doesn, but Khalidi comes to mind. Bitterlemons.org might be a good source of commentators.
It's obviously a huge area of foreign policy that Obama will be dealing and TPM is heavily weighted in favor of Jewish and/or Israeli commentators. They're good, but we need balance. I wrote you about this before, but thought I'd "re-ping" you before too much time elapsed. Sorry to do this in a thread devoted to something else, but I'm not sure how else to contact you. Thanks.
December 16, 2008 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink