[kj] OT: Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on the economic crisis

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Yep, you and I must be reading the same folks these days. I like Roubini 
as well.

There is kind of an axis of economists in this vein: Paul Krugman is 
probably "the leader" of the pack, then there's Nouriel Roubini, but 
also James K. Galbraith (from here in Austin, TX), Dean Baker (who, in 
print, at least, is probably the snarkiest and most bitter of them all), 
Doug Henwood, and also former IMF head (believe it or not) Simon Johnson.

Bill Moyers on PBS (in the USA) has been doing a great job of getting 
all these guys on his show every Friday. There is a collection of the 
interviews with them all, on video, here:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/finance/

It's about halfway down the page.

-Oliver


Brendan Quinn wrote:

> Nouriel Roubini is another one I have a lot of time for. I like both of

> their demeanours actually, vivid lack of bullshit-detector warnings I

> normally get when listening to politicians for example...they actually take

> the time to mull questions over and their answers actually make sense, and

> admit uncertainty... 

>

> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17pessimist-t.html

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