Simon Johnson on the Unconscionable
Risks We Face - Video
Risks We Face - Video
By Dan Richards
March 1, 2011
March 1, 2011
Simon Johnson is a professor of economics at MIT and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was the chief economist for the International Monetary Fund from March 2007 through August 2008. Johnson is the co-author, with James Kwak, of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown, a bestselling assessment of the dangers the US financial sector now poses (published by Pantheon in March 2010).
Dan Richards interviewed Johnson at the American Economic Association in late January.
A transcript of this interview is available here.
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