The Predator State

As the myth of the free market is overcome by current events, James K. Galbraith's new book explains both its rise and fall. His description of the dynamic and troublesome interaction between the public and private sectors is timely, instructive, and ultimately devastating. The rise of a free market ideology blurred both the distinction between these sectors and the growth of government. It did so in ways that not only contributed to greater wealth and income inequality, but also directly produced the financial crisis which is remaking the global economy on a daily basis. Join us for a discussion of the book and an exploration of the intersection of politics and policy in the response to the financial crisis.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Financial
• Crisis
• Free
• Market
• Myth
• Government
• Intervention
• Planning
• Economy

[stephentsang2000]

The second speaker apparently had studied Philosophy before. He understands that vague and empty idealogical vocabulary had been invented and wielded by those who want to trick the mass into justifying their not so idealogical acts.

[Nickcaraway]

@TheLibertyAvenger -- Do you find any irony in the fact that your, both silly and self-righteous, YouTube page has Confederate flags in the background? I, for one, don't associate a backwards plutocracy (The CSA) with a very large slave population to be a very compelling symbol of liberty for most of its former inhabitants.

[hymnofashes]

@ColdChicago Too late. Already done.

[TheLibertyAvenger]

Learn how to spell, MORON!

[amet1980]

stop wathcing fox morrons.

[ColdChicago]

Tying the State to a Market System is like hiring the local maniac to drive the school-bus.