Join us for this timely and meaningful conversation as JEFF MADRICK outlines how GREED lead to the decline of America and got us into the financial mess we are in today.
JEFF MADRICK is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for The New York Times. He is editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at The Cooper Union, and senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School.
He is a regular blogger for The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast. Madrick has appeared on Charlie Rose, The Lehrer News Hour, Now With Bill Moyers, Frontline, C-Span, CNN, CNBC, CBS, BBC, and NPR. Madrick was educated at New York University and Harvard University, and was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard.
Economics Journalist, Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow, Editor of Challenge Magazine, and Author
Jeff Madrick has written a compelling book: Age of Greed a Publishers Weekly Top Ten pick for Spring 2011.
Jeff Madrick makes clear in a narrative at once sweeping, fast-paced, and incisive, that the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who have argued that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns. These stewards of American capitalism have insisted on the central and essential place of accumulated wealth through the booms, busts, and recessions of the last half century, giving rise to our current woes.
Intense economic inequity and instability is the story of our age, and Jeff Madrick tells it with style, clarity, and an unerring command of his subject. What’s different about the book, is that unlike other recent treatments of the financial crisis, it traces the origins of the problem not to the Bush or Clinton or even Reagan years, but all the way to the late 1960s.
The real scandal revealed by Madrick’s important book is not the well-known tales of dastards such as telecom analyst Jack Grubman or Internet stock promoter Frank Quattrone, but the more elusive and more consequential story of how the government came to abdicate this supreme responsibility.’
'The Age of Greed is a fascinating and deeply disturbing tale of hypocrisy, corruption, and insatiable greed. But more than that, it’s a much-needed reminder of just how we got into the mess we’re in—a reminder that is greatly needed when we are still being told that greed is good'. - Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, The New York Review of Books
"I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy." - Warren Buffett
Date :
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Time:
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Place:
The New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street, (at CPW)
New York, NY 10023
Price:
$59
Each attendee will receive a signed copy of Jeff Madrick’s book ‘Age of Greed’. Coffee, Tea & Cookies will be served
'A superb book that deserves the widest possible audience.'
– David Warsh
Register: Register early – Space Limited
