New radio product
Freshly posted to my radio archives:
July 23, 2011 James Galbraith on deficit hysteria and the single-volume collection of four books by his father, John Kenneth Galbraith, published by the Library of Amerca
July 16, 2011 Amber Hollibaugh, interim director of Queers for Economic Justice, on the limits of same-sex marriage (see here for more) • Jeff Madrick, author of The Age of Greed, on the emergence of today’s icky economic order
July 2, 2011 Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos, talks about the effects of climate change amidst state collapse, plentiful weaponry, and neoliberalism
LBO News from Doug Henwood 
Please post the text of the July 23 commentary! It’d be great to be able to link that one while the debt-ceiling debate is still alive.
Much of the July 23 text is going to be in the next LBO, so I’m not going to give it away!
Ah. Fair enough, then I’ll look forward to reading it there — and nice piece of work, in any case.
It’s worth noting that the American economics profession, when John Kenneth Galbraith began, was actually pluralistic. Yes, there were precursors (of a sort) to what prevails today, but there was also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_economics