Program

The Present Crisis (listen)

[Chair: Michael Reich, Berkeley]
Financial Bloat— Neil Fligstein, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Housing Bubble & Bust— John Quigley, Economics & Public Policy, Berkeley
The Woeful Economy— Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer, New York
Financialization & Reform— Rob Johnson, Senior Fellow and Director of the Global Finance project, Roosevelt Institute

Learning from the New Deal

[Chair: Dick Walker, Berkeley]
Putting a Nation Back to Work — Kirstin Downey, biographer of Frances Perkins
Rebuilding a Nation— Gray Brechin, Geography, UC Berkeley
The Payoff of Public Works— Jason Scott Smith, History, University of New Mexico
Transformation of American Federalism — Margaret Weir, Sociology, Berkeley

Stimulus & Response (listen)

[Chair: Neil Fligstein, UCB]
Bailouts & Financial Reform— Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy Research, W.D.C.
Is a New Financial Order Possible?— Barry Eichengreen, Economics, UC Berkeley
Battered but Not Beaten— Brad DeLong, Economics, Berkeley
Job Creation & Destruction— Jesse Rothstein, Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Hope in the Dark?

[Chair: Kim Voss, Sociology, UCB]
What is to Be Done?— Robert Reich, Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Which Way Out?— Fred Block, Sociology, UC Davis
Where’s the Social Movement?— Barbara Epstein, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Is California Salvageable?— Richard Walker, Geography, UC Berkeley