Andrew Mazzone Interviews PCR: "Of all my interviews, this one is the best." -- Paul Craig Roberts

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SMART TALK

"I ask no one who may read this book to accept my views. I ask him to think for himself."
Henry George in Social Problems

Smart Talk with Andrew Mazzone and Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Smart Talk is a series of discussions with leading economists around the world moderated by Andrew Mazzone.

This is an interview with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.  Dr. Roberts has had careers in scholarship and academia, journalism, public service, and business. He is chairman of The Institute for Political Economy.

Dr. Roberts was awarded the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award for “his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy.”

In 1987 the French government recognized him as “the artisan of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of state interventionism” and inducted him into the Legion of Honor. 

He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.

Transcript [PDF]

ECONOMIST JAMES K. GALBRAITH EXPLAINS HOW RISING ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IS VERY CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH RISE OF THE STOCK MARKET AND THE INSTABILITY IT BROUGHT ON. SOME QUOTES: "ECONOMIC POWER SHOULD NOT BE UNDER THE CONTROL OF BANKERS." IT IS A MYTH THAT UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE IS A CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR MORE EGALITARIAN POLICIES. "THE FACT ON THE GROUND IS THAT COUNTRIES WHICH ARE MORE UNEQUAL IN EUROPE HAVE MUCH HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT THAN THE MORE EGALITARIAN COUNTRIES"

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Bio 

James K. Galbraith teaches economics at the University of Texas where he is a Senior Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute and the Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security. The son of renowned economist, the late, John Kenneth Galbraith, he writes a column called "Econoclast" for Mother Jones, and occasional commentary in many other publications, including The Texas Observer, The American Prospect, and The Nation. He is an occasional commentator for Public Radio International's Marketplace.He directs the University of Texas Inequality Project, an informal research group based at the LBJ School.

A VIDEO PREAMBLE TO THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE. WHAT DOES HAPPEN WHEN BANKS CONTROL THE ECOMOMY?

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Professor Robert Pollin, economist and Co-Director of the PERI Institute at U. Mass. Amherst, is interviewed by Paul Jay of theREALnews network regarding what should (and shouldn't) be done to revive the U.S. economy

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Pt1 Austerity Not a Solution



Pt2 A Crisis in Business Confidence?



Pt3 If Stimulus Works, Why Is Unemployment So High?



Pt4 U.S. Economy a Train Wreck?



Pt5 "Creative Destruction" and Fascism