Alissa Anderson currently serves as the deputy director of the California Budget Project (CBP). The California Budget Project engages in independent fiscal and policy analysis and public education with the goal of improving public policies affecting the economic and social well-being of low- and middle-income Californians. Prior to joining the CBP, Ms. Anderson was a research associate in the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. She also held a research internship at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and provided research consulting to several organizations, including the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies in Los Angeles.
Craig Holman, Ph.D. is currently Legislative Representative for Public Citizen. As Legislative Representative, he serves as the organization’s Capitol Hill lobbyist on campaign finance and governmental ethics. He has authored and co-authored several studies on campaign finance and the initiative process, including four major works entitled BUYING TIME 2000: TELEVISION ADVERTISING IN THE 2000 FEDERAL ELECTIONS (2001); THE PRICE OF JUSTICE: A CASE STUDY IN JUDICIAL CAMPAIGN FINANCING (1995); TO GOVERN OURSELVES: BALLOT INITIATIVES IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA (1992), and DEMOCRACY BY INITIATIVE (1992).
John Neurohr is the Communication Director for the Center for American Progress (CAP). The Center for American Progress is dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action. Building on the achievements of progressive pioneers such as Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, CAP’s work addresses 21st-century challenges such as energy, national security, economic growth and opportunity, immigration, education, and health care. It develops new policy ideas, critique the policy that stems from conservative values, challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter and shape the national debate. Founded in 2003 to provide long-term leadership and support to the progressive movement, CAP is headed by John D. Podesta and based in Washington, DC. CAP opened a Los Angeles office in 2007.
Robert Pollin is Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the U.S. and globally, the analysis of financial markets, and the economics of building a clean-energy economy in the U.S. His books include A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States (co-authored, 2008); An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for Kenya (co-authored, 2008); An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for South Africa (co-authored, 2007); Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity (2003); and The Living Wage: Building A Fair Economy (co-authored, 1998). He has also worked with the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress and as a member of the Capital Formation Subcouncil of the U.S. Competiveness Policy Council.
Jennifer S. Taub is a Lecturer and Coordinator of the Business Law Program at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include corporate governance, financial regulation, investor protection, mutual fund governance, shareholders rights and sustainable business. Previously, Professor Taub was an Associate General Counsel for Fidelity Investments in Boston and Assistant Vice President for the Fidelity Fixed Income Funds. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and earned her undergraduate degree, cum laude, with distinction in the English major from Yale College. Professor Taub is currently writing a book on the financial crisis for Yale University Press.
Interviews for June 13, 2010
Algernon Austin is a sociologist of racial relations with a specialization on black Americans. Prior to joining the Economic Policy Institute, he was assistant director of research at the Foundation Center and a Senior Fellow at the Demos think tank. From 2001 to 2005, he served on the faculty of Wesleyan University. Austin is the author of Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America and Achieving Blackness: Race, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century. He has published scholarly articles in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Qualitative Sociology, the Journal of African American Studies, and Race, Gender and Class.
Fred L. Block is a sociologist at Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, California. Dr. Block is the author of The Vampire State and Other Myths and Fallacies about the U.S. Economy; Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse; The Mean Season: The Attack on the Welfare State (with Richard A. Cloward, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Frances Fox Piven); Revising State Theory: Essays in Politics and Postindustrialism; The Origins of International Economic Disorder: A Study of United States International Monetary Policy from World War II to the Present.
John Neurohr is the Communication Director for the Center for American Progress (CAP). The Center for American Progress is dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action. Building on the achievements of progressive pioneers such as Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, CAP’s work addresses 21st-century challenges such as energy, national security, economic growth and opportunity, immigration, education, and health care. It develops new policy ideas, critique the policy that stems from conservative values, challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter and shape the national debate. Founded in 2003 to provide long-term leadership and support to the progressive movement, CAP is headed by John D. Podesta and based in Washington, DC. CAP opened a Los Angeles office in 2007.
Walter Williams is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington; Distinguished Scholar, Center for Politics and Public Policy, Political Science Department, University of Washington His publications include The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good; Government in America (with Bryan D. Jones); Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy, Georgetown University Press, 2003; Honest Numbers and Democracy: Federal Domestic Policy Analysis Staffs, Georgetown University Press, 1998; Mismanaging America: The Rise of the Anti-Analytic Presidency, University Press of Kansas, 1990; Washington Policy Choices (edited with William Zumeta and Betty Jane Narver), Graduate School of Public Affairs/Institute for Public Policy and Management, 1990. Washington, Westminster and Whitehall, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. A native of North Carolina, Professor Zunes received his PhD. from Cornell University, his M.A. from Temple University and his B.A. from Oberlin College. He has previously served on the faculty of Ithaca College, the University of Puget Sound, and Whitman College. He serves as a senior policy analyst for the Foreign Policy in Focus project of the Institute for Policy Studies, an associate editor of Peace Review, and chair of the academic advisory committee for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
Fred L. Block is a sociologist at Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, California. Dr. Block is the author of The Vampire State and Other Myths and Fallacies about the U.S. Economy; Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse; The Mean Season: The Attack on the Welfare State (with Richard A. Cloward, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Frances Fox Piven); Revising State Theory: Essays in Politics and Postindustrialism; The Origins of International Economic Disorder: A Study of United States International Monetary Policy from World War II to the Present.
John Neurohr is the Communication Director for the Center for American Progress (CAP). The Center for American Progress is dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action. Building on the achievements of progressive pioneers such as Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, CAP’s work addresses 21st-century challenges such as energy, national security, economic growth and opportunity, immigration, education, and health care. It develops new policy ideas, critique the policy that stems from conservative values, challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter and shape the national debate. Founded in 2003 to provide long-term leadership and support to the progressive movement, CAP is headed by John D. Podesta and based in Washington, DC. CAP opened a Los Angeles office in 2007.
Walter Williams is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington; Distinguished Scholar, Center for Politics and Public Policy, Political Science Department, University of Washington His publications include The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good; Government in America (with Bryan D. Jones); Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy, Georgetown University Press, 2003; Honest Numbers and Democracy: Federal Domestic Policy Analysis Staffs, Georgetown University Press, 1998; Mismanaging America: The Rise of the Anti-Analytic Presidency, University Press of Kansas, 1990; Washington Policy Choices (edited with William Zumeta and Betty Jane Narver), Graduate School of Public Affairs/Institute for Public Policy and Management, 1990. Washington, Westminster and Whitehall, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Dr. Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. A native of North Carolina, Professor Zunes received his PhD. from Cornell University, his M.A. from Temple University and his B.A. from Oberlin College. He has previously served on the faculty of Ithaca College, the University of Puget Sound, and Whitman College. He serves as a senior policy analyst for the Foreign Policy in Focus project of the Institute for Policy Studies, an associate editor of Peace Review, and chair of the academic advisory committee for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
Interviews for June 6, 2010
Algernon Austin is a sociologist of racial relations with a specialization on black Americans. Prior to joining the Economic Policy Institute, he was assistant director of research at the Foundation Center and a Senior Fellow at the Demos think tank. From 2001 to 2005, he served on the faculty of Wesleyan University. Austin is the author of Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America and Achieving Blackness: Race, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century. He has published scholarly articles in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Qualitative Sociology, the Journal of African American Studies, and Race, Gender and Class.
Eric Hagt is the Director of the China Program of the World Security Institute in Washington, D.C. where he manages projects on traditional and non-traditional security issues in China, including space, energy and health. He was a visiting researcher in the Freeman Chair in China Studies n Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has studied and worked in Taiwan and mainland China for eight years.
Eric Hagt is the Director of the China Program of the World Security Institute in Washington, D.C. where he manages projects on traditional and non-traditional security issues in China, including space, energy and health. He was a visiting researcher in the Freeman Chair in China Studies n Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has studied and worked in Taiwan and mainland China for eight years.
Interviews for May 23, 2010
Michelle Egan is an Associate Professor and Coordinator for the European and Russian Studies program in the Comparative and Regional Studies Division. Her geographic expertise is in Western Europe, with a secondary focus on Central and Eastern Europe. Awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration, her work focuses on regional integration, transatlantic relations, comparative political economy, constitutionalism and defense and security issues. She is currently European Council Co-Chair; and member of the American Consortium for EU Studies (ACES), a nationally recognized center of excellence on the EU. Her books include: Constructing a European Market: Standards, Regulation and Governance (Oxford University Press); Creating a Transatlantic Marketplace: Government Policies and Business Strategies (Manchester University Press) and Single Markets: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States (Forthcoming Oxford University Press).
Dr. Joan Fitzgerald is the Director, Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University. Her specialization is Urban economic development, Urban sustainability planning, Workforce Development, and Green economic development. Previously, Fitzgerald taught urban policy and public affairs at the New School University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University. Professor Fitzgerald’s books include 2010 Emerald Cities: Linking Sustainability and Economic Development, Oxford University Press (forthcoming Feb or March); 2006 Moving Up in the New Economy. Cornell University Press (also a Century Foundation book); 2002 Economic Revitalization: Strategies and Cases for City and Suburb. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (with Nancey Green Leigh). In progress is Urban Planning in the Energy Climate Era: From Silos to Synergies.
John Neurohr is the Communication Director for the Center for American Progress (CAP). The Center for American Progress is dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action. Building on the achievements of progressive pioneers such as Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, CAP’s work addresses 21st-century challenges such as energy, national security, economic growth and opportunity, immigration, education, and health care. It develops new policy ideas, critique the policy that stems from conservative values, challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter and shape the national debate. Founded in 2003 to provide long-term leadership and support to the progressive movement, CAP is headed by John D. Podesta and based in Washington, DC. CAP opened a Los Angeles office in 2007.
Daniel Pope is a full professor in the History Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. He specializes in United States business and economic history. Fellowships, Grants, and Honors includes Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow; CIES/Fulbright Senior Lecturer Award; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grant; and Burlington Northern Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Pope’s publications include The Making of Modern Advertising (New York: Basic Books, 1983). [Japanese edition of The Making of Modern Advertising (Tokyo: Dentsu, 1987).] Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Editor, American Radicalism (Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001) in the series Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History.
Dr. Judith Stein holds the Nikolay V. Sivachev Distinguished Chair in American History, the City College of New York and Graduate Center of the City University. Professor Stein specializes in U.S. twentieth political and economic; African American History; Her publications include The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986, ACLS History E-Book, 2004; Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998; Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies Yale University Press, 2010. Fellowship Awards and Grants Professor Stein Education; B.A., with honors, Vassar College, and a Ph.D, Yale University
Dr. Joan Fitzgerald is the Director, Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University. Her specialization is Urban economic development, Urban sustainability planning, Workforce Development, and Green economic development. Previously, Fitzgerald taught urban policy and public affairs at the New School University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University. Professor Fitzgerald’s books include 2010 Emerald Cities: Linking Sustainability and Economic Development, Oxford University Press (forthcoming Feb or March); 2006 Moving Up in the New Economy. Cornell University Press (also a Century Foundation book); 2002 Economic Revitalization: Strategies and Cases for City and Suburb. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (with Nancey Green Leigh). In progress is Urban Planning in the Energy Climate Era: From Silos to Synergies.
John Neurohr is the Communication Director for the Center for American Progress (CAP). The Center for American Progress is dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action. Building on the achievements of progressive pioneers such as Teddy Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, CAP’s work addresses 21st-century challenges such as energy, national security, economic growth and opportunity, immigration, education, and health care. It develops new policy ideas, critique the policy that stems from conservative values, challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter and shape the national debate. Founded in 2003 to provide long-term leadership and support to the progressive movement, CAP is headed by John D. Podesta and based in Washington, DC. CAP opened a Los Angeles office in 2007.
Daniel Pope is a full professor in the History Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. He specializes in United States business and economic history. Fellowships, Grants, and Honors includes Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow; CIES/Fulbright Senior Lecturer Award; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grant; and Burlington Northern Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Pope’s publications include The Making of Modern Advertising (New York: Basic Books, 1983). [Japanese edition of The Making of Modern Advertising (Tokyo: Dentsu, 1987).] Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Editor, American Radicalism (Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001) in the series Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History.
Dr. Judith Stein holds the Nikolay V. Sivachev Distinguished Chair in American History, the City College of New York and Graduate Center of the City University. Professor Stein specializes in U.S. twentieth political and economic; African American History; Her publications include The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986, ACLS History E-Book, 2004; Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998; Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies Yale University Press, 2010. Fellowship Awards and Grants Professor Stein Education; B.A., with honors, Vassar College, and a Ph.D, Yale University
Interviews for May 16, 2010
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He is frequently cited in economics reporting in major media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, and National Public Radio. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian Unlimited (UK), and his blog, Beat the Press, features commentary on economic reporting. Dean has written several books, his latest being Taking Economics Seriously which thinks through what we might gain if we took the ideological blinders off of basic economic principles, False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy about what caused - and how to fix - the current economic crisis. In 2009, he wrote Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, which chronicled the growth and collapse of the stock and housing bubbles and explained how policy blunders and greed led to the catastrophic - but completely predictable - market meltdowns.
Jane D’Arista writes and lectures on economics and finance and is a Research Associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and at the Economic Policy Institute. She served as a staff economist for the Banking and Commerce Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives, as a principal analyst in the international division of the Congressional Budget Office and has lectured in graduate programs at Boston University School of Law, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Utah and the New School University. Her publications include a two-volume history of U.S. monetary policy and financial regulation.
Jennifer S. Taub is a Lecturer and Coordinator of the Business Law Program at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include corporate governance, financial regulation, investor protection, mutual fund governance, shareholders rights and sustainable business. Previously, Professor Taub was an Associate General Counsel for Fidelity Investments in Boston and Assistant Vice President for the Fidelity Fixed Income Funds. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and earned her undergraduate degree, cum laude, with distinction in the English major from Yale College. Professor Taub is currently writing a book on the financial crisis for Yale University Press.
Bill Winders is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ivan Allen College, History, Technology and Society. He is a sociologist who specializes in the areas of social inequality (class, race, and gender), social movements, political sociology, and the world economy. His current research examines how political coalitions and the southern political-economy shaped twentieth century U.S. agricultural policy. Yale University Press has just published a book by Dr. Winders entitled The Politics of Food Supply. He has also published in journals such as Social Forces, Politics & Society, Social Problems, and Rural Sociology on topics including the politics of national policies, voter turnout, and social movement dynamics.
Jane D’Arista writes and lectures on economics and finance and is a Research Associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and at the Economic Policy Institute. She served as a staff economist for the Banking and Commerce Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives, as a principal analyst in the international division of the Congressional Budget Office and has lectured in graduate programs at Boston University School of Law, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Utah and the New School University. Her publications include a two-volume history of U.S. monetary policy and financial regulation.
Jennifer S. Taub is a Lecturer and Coordinator of the Business Law Program at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include corporate governance, financial regulation, investor protection, mutual fund governance, shareholders rights and sustainable business. Previously, Professor Taub was an Associate General Counsel for Fidelity Investments in Boston and Assistant Vice President for the Fidelity Fixed Income Funds. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and earned her undergraduate degree, cum laude, with distinction in the English major from Yale College. Professor Taub is currently writing a book on the financial crisis for Yale University Press.
Bill Winders is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ivan Allen College, History, Technology and Society. He is a sociologist who specializes in the areas of social inequality (class, race, and gender), social movements, political sociology, and the world economy. His current research examines how political coalitions and the southern political-economy shaped twentieth century U.S. agricultural policy. Yale University Press has just published a book by Dr. Winders entitled The Politics of Food Supply. He has also published in journals such as Social Forces, Politics & Society, Social Problems, and Rural Sociology on topics including the politics of national policies, voter turnout, and social movement dynamics.
Interviews for May 9, 2010
Dr. Todd Swanstrom joined the University of Missouri-St. Louis as the Des Lee Endowed Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration. This is a joint appointment with PPRC, the Department of Political Science, and Public Policy Administration. Dr. Swanstrom is the author of six books, including Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century, 2nd ed. (co-authored with Peter Dreier and John Mollenkopf). This text, published in 2001, examines the relationship between suburban sprawl and the decline of central cities and inner-ring suburbs. He also co-authored City Politics, 5th ed., which is a comprehensive examination of urban politics.
Dr. Bart Hildreth joined Geogia State University in July 2009. Previously, at Wichita State University, Hildreth was the Regents Distinguished Professor of Public Finance with joint appointments in the public administration faculty of the Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs and the finance faculty of the W. Frank Barton School of Business. Hildreth served as interim dean of the Barton School of Business in 2007-2008. Hildreth is editor-in-chief of the only referred journal devoted to municipal securities and state and local financing, the Municipal Finance Journal. His numerous journal articles and publications include the State and Local Government Debt Issuance and Management Service (with yearly updates), the co-edited Handbook on Taxation, and the co-authored Budgeting: Politics and Power (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Lawrence R. Jacobs is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute and Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a wide range of public activities, Dr. Jacobs co-edits the “Chicago Series in American Politics” for the University of Chicago Press and has published ten scholarly books including: The Unsustainable American State (with Desmond King, Oxford University Press, 2009); Talking Together: Public Deliberation in America and the Search for Community (with Fay Lomax Cook and Michael Delli Carpini , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), Class War? Economic Inequality and the American Dream (with Benjamin Page , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), The Private Abuse of the Public Interest (with Lawrence Brown, University of Chicago Press, 2008), Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair (with James Morone, Oxford University Press, 2005).
William L. Marcy is the assistant professor of history at St. Martin’s University and makes the case that the U.S. has, starting with the joining of the Reagan administration's anti-Communist initiatives with the "War on Drugs," played a large role in actually establishing the drug trade as a central economic base in Central and South America. He has written The Politics of Cocaine: How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America (Lawrence Hill Books). "Marcy investigates why South American drug trafficking has remained so hardy and lucrative even as the U.S. has spent billions—usually on wrongheaded measures, as he sees it—to combat both production and export. Costly raids and drug seizures have had minimal impact on production and no impact on U.S. consumption, argues Marcy ... Marcy's connections and conclusions richly reveal how intricately the legitimate and illegal economies are entangled across two continents." - Publishers Weekly.
Dr. Bart Hildreth joined Geogia State University in July 2009. Previously, at Wichita State University, Hildreth was the Regents Distinguished Professor of Public Finance with joint appointments in the public administration faculty of the Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs and the finance faculty of the W. Frank Barton School of Business. Hildreth served as interim dean of the Barton School of Business in 2007-2008. Hildreth is editor-in-chief of the only referred journal devoted to municipal securities and state and local financing, the Municipal Finance Journal. His numerous journal articles and publications include the State and Local Government Debt Issuance and Management Service (with yearly updates), the co-edited Handbook on Taxation, and the co-authored Budgeting: Politics and Power (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Lawrence R. Jacobs is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute and Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a wide range of public activities, Dr. Jacobs co-edits the “Chicago Series in American Politics” for the University of Chicago Press and has published ten scholarly books including: The Unsustainable American State (with Desmond King, Oxford University Press, 2009); Talking Together: Public Deliberation in America and the Search for Community (with Fay Lomax Cook and Michael Delli Carpini , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), Class War? Economic Inequality and the American Dream (with Benjamin Page , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), The Private Abuse of the Public Interest (with Lawrence Brown, University of Chicago Press, 2008), Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair (with James Morone, Oxford University Press, 2005).
William L. Marcy is the assistant professor of history at St. Martin’s University and makes the case that the U.S. has, starting with the joining of the Reagan administration's anti-Communist initiatives with the "War on Drugs," played a large role in actually establishing the drug trade as a central economic base in Central and South America. He has written The Politics of Cocaine: How U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America (Lawrence Hill Books). "Marcy investigates why South American drug trafficking has remained so hardy and lucrative even as the U.S. has spent billions—usually on wrongheaded measures, as he sees it—to combat both production and export. Costly raids and drug seizures have had minimal impact on production and no impact on U.S. consumption, argues Marcy ... Marcy's connections and conclusions richly reveal how intricately the legitimate and illegal economies are entangled across two continents." - Publishers Weekly.
Interviews for May 2, 2010
John Ehrenberg is Professor of Political Science and Department Chair at Long Island University. Professor Ehrenberg's research ranges from the history of political theory to selected topics in modern political ideologies. His two most recent books -- Servants of Wealth: The Right's Assault on Economic Justice and Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea -- carry some of those concerns into contemporary life, reflecting his ongoing desire to address some of the central issues of modern political affairs. He is currently working on a series of projects raised by the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq. A recipient of the David E. Newton Award for Outstanding Teaching, he teaches a wide variety of courses, some of which are Classical Political Theory; Contemporary Democratic Thought; Marxism; and Economic Inequality and Democracy.
Barry C. Lynn is director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He is author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction (Wiley 2010) and End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation (Doubleday 2005). Lynn’s groundbreaking writings on industrial interdependence among nations and the growing fragility of complex industrial systems have attracted wide attention, and he has been invited to present his work to high officials in Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Taiwan, and the European Commission, as well as in the White House and U.S. Treasury Department.
Robert C. Pozen is Chairman of MFS Investment Management®, which manages more than $200 billion in assets for more than five million investors worldwide. He was named to his current position in February 2004. Mr. Pozen is an independent director of Medtronics and BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises). In addition, he is involved in various non-profit organizations, such as the Council on Foreign Relations and The Commonwealth Fund. He was recently elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During 2002 and 2003, Pozen was the John Olin Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, teaching interdisciplinary courses focused on corporate governance and financial institutions. Mr. Pozen also served on President Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security in late 2001 and 2002. He is the author of Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System.
Walter Williams is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington; Distinguished Scholar, Center for Politics and Public Policy, Political Science Department, University of Washington His publications include The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good; Government in America (with Bryan D. Jones); Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy, Georgetown University Press, 2003; Honest Numbers and Democracy: Federal Domestic Policy Analysis Staffs, Georgetown University Press, 1998; Mismanaging America: The Rise of the Anti-Analytic Presidency, University Press of Kansas, 1990; Washington Policy Choices (edited with William Zumeta and Betty Jane Narver), Graduate School of Public Affairs/Institute for Public Policy and Management, 1990. Washington, Westminster and Whitehall, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Barry C. Lynn is director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He is author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction (Wiley 2010) and End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation (Doubleday 2005). Lynn’s groundbreaking writings on industrial interdependence among nations and the growing fragility of complex industrial systems have attracted wide attention, and he has been invited to present his work to high officials in Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Taiwan, and the European Commission, as well as in the White House and U.S. Treasury Department.
Robert C. Pozen is Chairman of MFS Investment Management®, which manages more than $200 billion in assets for more than five million investors worldwide. He was named to his current position in February 2004. Mr. Pozen is an independent director of Medtronics and BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises). In addition, he is involved in various non-profit organizations, such as the Council on Foreign Relations and The Commonwealth Fund. He was recently elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During 2002 and 2003, Pozen was the John Olin Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, teaching interdisciplinary courses focused on corporate governance and financial institutions. Mr. Pozen also served on President Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security in late 2001 and 2002. He is the author of Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System.
Walter Williams is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington; Distinguished Scholar, Center for Politics and Public Policy, Political Science Department, University of Washington His publications include The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good; Government in America (with Bryan D. Jones); Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy, Georgetown University Press, 2003; Honest Numbers and Democracy: Federal Domestic Policy Analysis Staffs, Georgetown University Press, 1998; Mismanaging America: The Rise of the Anti-Analytic Presidency, University Press of Kansas, 1990; Washington Policy Choices (edited with William Zumeta and Betty Jane Narver), Graduate School of Public Affairs/Institute for Public Policy and Management, 1990. Washington, Westminster and Whitehall, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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