Julie A. Nelson (Tufts): Would Women Leaders Have Prevented the Global Financial Crisis? Richard Robb (Columbia): Epistemology and the Financial Crisis. Claude Fischer on political responses to the crash. Here are the papers from the Finance and the Wealth of Nations Workshop. Brad DeLong on the Great Depression from the perspective of today, and today from the perspective of the Great Depression (and more). Is the “too big to fail” problem too big to solve? Jack Guttentag analyzes three different approaches commonly brought up in discussions about taxpayer bailouts of firms considered “too big to fail”. How Jamie Dimon’s getting away with it: Why the biggest fines in regulatory history are no problem for JPMorgan Chase’s CEO. The Tea Party thinks it hates Wall Street — it doesn’t: When it comes to financial regulation, there are no substantial issues on which Tea Party Republicans differ from Wall Street. From BusinessWeek, Joel Stein on how the dream of Occupy Wall Street is alive in Portland; and Drake Bennett interviews David Graeber on the movement's future. What world bankers fear most: Much of the conversation at this year's IMF and World Bank meetings will be about slowing emerging markets, the dysfunctional U.S. government, and spreading inequality. On the new Wall Street, boring is better. Lawrence Summers reviews The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting by Alan Greenspan (and more by Steven Pearlstein, and more by Brad DeLong).
