Making It
Journalist Louis Uchitelle talked about his book Making It: Why Manufacturing Still Matters, in which he reports on manufacturing in America. He spoke with Jeff Madrick.
431 viewsJournalist Louis Uchitelle talked about his book Making It: Why Manufacturing Still Matters, in which he reports on manufacturing in America. He spoke with Jeff Madrick.
431 viewsJeff Madrick profiled the men whose ideas he argues were responsible for current economic problems. He responded to questions from members of the audience at Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe in New …
1,414 viewsContributors to Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover, published by The Nation, participated in a forum on the downturn in the financial sy…
788 viewsA mock trial was held to determine whether free market capitalism caused the 2008 economic meltdown. Jeff Madrick, author of The Case for Big Government acted as the prosecutor against free …
1,246 viewsThe panel talked about the current economic crisis and what to do about it. Topics included the federal “stress tests” for banks that received federal funding, the causes and implications of…
958 viewsUpon the re-publication of Barry Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Conservative and John Kenneth Galbraith’s The New Industrial State, a panel of political and historical observers discussed t…
1,003 viewsPanelists discussed corporate responsibility. Among the specific issues addressed were over-reliance on stock price as a measure of success, incentives to provide false or misleading financi…
101 viewsRepublican and Democratic mayors spoke about the Contract With America, a Republican proposal designed to reform current welfare, healthcare, and economic policies. The mayors talked about …
80 viewsRepublican and Democratic mayors and others discussed the impact of the Republican agenda on their cities in such areas as welfare reform and economic development.
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