Robert Brenner (UCLA): What is Good for Goldman Sachs is Good for America: The Origins of the Current Crisis (and more). From The Economist, of debt and deadbeats: A new culture war is brewing over capitalism; and disenchantment with work is growing — what can be done about it? More on Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft. An excerpt from This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. A review of No Way to Run an Economy: Why the System Failed and How to Put it Right by Graham Turner. Priced to Go: James Surowiecki on Amazon vs. Wal-Mart. From Economic Principals, was Henry George right after all? (A shaggy dog story). Would a new bill bringing back Glass-Steagall prevent another banking meltdown? Edmund Phelps on the road to prosperity and sound markets. A

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