Special Programming: Public Affairs on 10/19/11

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Wed, 10/19/2011 - 8:00am to 11:00am
Scholars, authors and activists look at the age of greed and how to end it

Greed: What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing!

Join us for a special program on The Age of Greed and How to End It.

Guests include:

David Graeber, professor and activist and author of "Debt: The First 5,000 Years"

Gretchen Morgensen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-author of "Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon."

Jeff Madrick, regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for The New York Times, and author of "Age of Greed, The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970-Present."

R.T. Naylor, Professor and author of "Crass Struggle: Greed,Glitz, And Gluttony In A Wanna-Have World"

John de Graaf, co-author of "What's the Economy For, Anyway: Why It's Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing Happiness

And more

 

 

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