The Answer to the Debt-Ceiling Standoff & Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

KPFA - Letters and Politics

English - January 24, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 232 ratings
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Part I. The Answer to The Debt Ceiling Standoff
Guest: James K. Galbraith is Professor of Government and Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a former staff economist for the House Banking Committee and a former executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He is the author of Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know (2016) and Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (2016).

Part II. The Making of American Capitalism
Guest: Edward E. Baptist is a professor of history at Cornell University. Author of the award-winning Creating an Old South and The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.

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