Media

*Full-length videos of the Center's Annual Conferences can be found under the Conferences page. 

CCTV's "Biz Talk" Interview with Edmund Phelps
April 27, 2013
Edmund Phelps discusses the future of the Chinese economy as part of a feature on business opportunities across Asia. View the full interview, which begins at 11:20, at CCTV.

Bloomberg's "Bottom Line" Interview with Edmund Phelps
January 4, 2013
Edmund Phelps discusses the new employment statistics and general economic outlook for 2013. View the full interview at Bloomberg.

 

Edmund Phelps at RAND's Politics Aside Conference
January 2, 2013 (Conference: November 16, 2012)
Edmund Phelps on infrastructure spending, with Nicholas Wapshott, Harold Evans, Stuart Hoffman, and Robert Hormats. View the discussion at RAND's website.

 

Edmund Phelps at the National Economics Club
December 17, 2012
Edmund Phelps delivers the first annual Herbert Stein Memorial Lecture. Listen to the audio recording at The National Economists Club website.

 

Edmund Phelps at Trinity College
October 16, 2012
Edmund Phelps addresses the University Philosophical Society on his election as Honorary Patron. View a video of the speech.

 


Bloomberg Interview with Edmund Phelps
September 7, 2012
Edmund Phelps discusses the jobs report and monetary policy. View the full interview at Bloomberg.

 

n-TV (Germany) Interview with Edmund Phelps
August 30, 2012
Edmund Phelps discusses the Eurozone crisis. View the full interview at n-TV.

 

CCTV-9 Interview with Edmund Phelps
June 17, 2012
Edmund Phelps discusses the Chinese economy. View the full interview at CCTV-9.

 

Bloomberg's "Inside Track" Interview with Amar Bhidé
May 14, 2012
Center Member Amar Bhidé talks about JPMorgan's $2 billion loss and Jamie Dimon's leadership. He spoke May 14 on Bloomberg TV's "Inside Track." View the the full interview at Bloomberg.

 

 

Bloomberg Link Washington Summit
May 1, 2012
Steve Case, chief executive officer of Revolution LLC and co-founder of AOL Inc., Carly Fiorina, chairman of Carly Fiorina Enterprises, and Edmund Phelps, the Center's Director, participated in a panel discussion about job creation. Susan Goldberg moderates the panel at the Bloomberg Link Washington Summit.  Click here to see the the video of the panel at Bloomberg.

 

 

Keiser Report interview with Saifedean Ammous
February 2, 2012
Center Foreign Member Saifedean Ammous talks with hosts Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert about the standoff between Egypt and the IMF debt pushers as well as the war against the online free market by Hollywood middlemen.  Click here for video of the interview.

 

 

Keynes vs. Hayek: An Economics Debate with Edmund Phelps and Sir Harold Evans
November 8, 2011
Center Director Edmund Phelps and Center Advisory Board Member Harold Evans participated in Rueters' Keynes vs. Hayek: An Economics Debate.   The debate tackles the question of whether John Maynard Keynes is correct in believing that the government can fix the mass unemployment generated by a financial slump.  Or whether that a dangerous delusion as argued by his arch critic, Friedrich von Hayek?For the video of the debate, please click here.




Thought Economics interview with Edmund Phelps
September 1, 2011
Thought Economics published an interview with Center Director Edmund Phelps titled "Capitalism - What comes next?" The piece discusses the story of modern capitalism, the benefits it has brought, and the challenges it has created. It also explores the 'post crisis' economy, the role of government in society, the relationship between capitalism and conflict, the role of oil in our society and looks at what needs to be done to 'fix' our global economy, and the science of economics itself. For the link to the article, please click here.

 

Bloomberg Interview with Edmund Phelps
August 23, 2011
Center Director Edmund Phelps spoke with David Tweed in Lindau, Germany about the outlook for the U.S. economy and Federal Reserve monetary policy. He also spoke about the European sovereign debt crisis and expectations for the euro.
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Bloomberg Interview with Roman Frydman
April 7, 2011
Center Member Roman Frydman talks about economic modeling with Tom Keene on Bloomberg's "Surveillance Midday."
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CNBC Europe Interview with Roman Frydman
March 3, 2011
Center Member Roman Frydman talks with CNBC Europe's Squawkbox about "Rethinking Free Market Theory."
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 Yahoo! Finance Interview with Glenn Hubbard
February 28, 2011
Center Member Glenn Hubbard talks with Yahoo! Finance about how foreign aid has been miscast and how the US should spend less on military and more on small businesses to encourage economic growth and prosperity in the rest of the world.
Link to video and article

 

"Inside Job" featuring Center Members Gylfi Zoega and R. Glenn Hubbard wins 2011 Oscar for Best Documentary
February 27, 2011
Charles Ferguson's full length film documentary, "Inside Job," which just won the 2011 Oscar for Best Documentary, has interviews with two Members of the Center. Early in the movie, a description of the damage done by the collapse of Iceland's banks is given by Gylfi Zoega, who has been prominent at the Center since its 2nd Annual Conference, held in Rejkyavik in June 2005. The other interview is the confrontation between the interviewer - voice-over by Matt Damon - and R. Glenn Hubbard, a founding Member of the Center. For more information on "Inside Job," please follow the link.

 

Bloomberg Interview with Edmund Phelps
February 25, 2011
Center Director Edmund Phelps talks with Carol Massar and Matt Miller on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart" about the role of unions in U.S. society and the challenge of closing state budget deficits.
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Bloomberg Interview with Edmund Phelps
December 14, 2010
Center Director Edmund Phelps talks with Carol Massar and Matt Miller on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart" about President Barack Obama’s $858 billion agreement with Republicans to extend all Bush-era income-tax cuts and its likely impact on the U.S. economy.
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Interview with Glenn Hubbard
December 3, 2010
Center Member Glenn Hubbard talks with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC's "Wall Street Journal Report" about higher jobless claims, Ireland’s debt concerns, a stock rally and positive retail sales.
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Lecture with Amar Bhidé
October 21, 2010
Center Member Amar Bhidé discusses "Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy" at Carnegie Council.  In it he "takes apart the so-called advances in modern finance, showing how backward-looking, top-down models were used to mass-produce toxic products. He offers tough, simple rules: limit banks and all deposit taking institutions to basic lending and nothing else."
Link to lecture

 

Interview with Edmund Phelps
October 1, 2010
Center Director Edmund Phelps discusses how "US Innovation has Stagnated" with CNBC.  In it Phelps states that "Innovation in the US has stagnated and Google is one of the only companies pushing innovation forward."
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Bloomberg Interview with Edmund Phelps
August 26, 2010
Tom Keene's "Bloomberg on the economy" interview with Center Director Edmund Phelps.
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Bloomberg Interview with Amar Bhidé
July 9, 2010
Amar Bhide, Center on Capitalism and Society Member, talks  with Eric Schatzker about his view that banks should only focus on basic lending.
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CNBC Interview with Joseph Stiglitz
June 30, 2010
Joseph Stiglitz, Center on Capitalism and Society Member, in "Focus on Stimulus, Not Austerity: Stiglitz".
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euronews Interview with Edmund Phelps
June 29, 2010
Edmund Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, talks with euronews' Seamus Kearney about the issues discussed at the NY Forum.
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euronews Interview with Amar Bhidé
June 29, 2010
Amar Bhidé, Center on Capitalism and Society Member, talks with euronews' Seamus Kearney about the issues discussed at the NY Forum.
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Bloomberg Interview with Edmund Phelps
June 28, 2010
Edmund Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, discusses the U.S. economy, last weekend’s meeting of the Group of 20 leaders and the European sovereign debt crisis with Margaret Brennan.
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The New York Forum
June 23, 2010
WHAT NEXT FOR CAPITALISM AND THE US ECONOMY’S DYNAMISM? The worst of the finance-induced recession seems to be over. But there is widening anticipation of jobless growth. How are the engines of innovation performing in the US and abroad? The plenary was conceived and designed together with the Center on Capitalism and Society and presented four members from the Center - Glenn Hubbard, Richard Robb, Leo Tilman, and Edmund Phelps - and, as a special guest, Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup, and also a trustee and former faculty member at Columbia.
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June 21, 2010
Edmund Phelps, Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society, talks about the importance of The New York Forum.
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Bloomberg Interview with Edmund Phelps
May 5, 2010
Edmund Phelps, Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society, talks with Bloomberg's Rishaad Salamat about the Greek debt crisis. Phelps, speaking in Brussels, also discusses the outlook for an economic recovery in Europe.
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Bloomberg Interview with Amar Bhidé
April 22, 2010
Bhidé, Center on Capitalism and Society Member, Says Financial Overhaul Moving `Much Too Quickly'.
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Bloomberg Interview with Edmund Phelps
April 2, 2010
Edmund Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu about the March U.S. jobs report released today.
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Bloomberg Interviews at CCS's 7th Annual Conference, "Post-Crisis Economic Policies"
December 11, 2009
Interview with Edmund Phelps, Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society entitled "Edmund Phelps Doubts 'Abrupt' Withdrawal of Fed Stimulus"
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December 11, 2009
Interview with Paul Volcker, Dinner Speaker at 7th Annual Conference, entitled "Volcker Interview on U.S. Economy, Goldman Sachs"
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CNBC Interview with Amar Bhidé
August 25, 2009
In an interview titled "Bernanke's Second Round," CCS member Amar Bhidé discusses whether Ben Bernanke is really the right person for the job as Fed chief.
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Bloomberg TV Interview Regarding CCS's Letter to the G20 (Follow-up to 6th Annual Conference)
March 31, 2009
Bloomberg's Kathleen Hays speaks with CCS Director Edmund Phelps about his letter to the G-20 leaders

 

Three CCS members on Fareed Zakaria GPS
February 22, 2009
Three CCS Members, Edmund Phelps, Joseph Stiglitz, and Jeffrey Sachs, discuss the global economic crisis with CNN's Fareed Zakaria.
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Interviews at CCS's 6th Annual Conference, "Post-Crisis Economic Policies"
Forbes.com
February 20, 2009
Watch clips and interviews from the conference

CNBC (Steve Liesman)
February 20, 2009
Watch CNBC's Steve Liesman at the conference

Bloomberg News
February 20, 2009
George Soros's Dinner Speech
February 24, 2009
Paul Volcker's Luncheon Speech

Reuters
February 20, 2009
Paul Volcker's Luncheon Speech
George Soros's Dinner Speech
ECB's Lucas Papademos's Presentation
French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde's Presentation
Jeffrey Sachs's and Joseph Stiglitz's Presentations

Columbia News
February 17, 2009
"Columbia Center for Capitalism and Society Hosts Conference on the Financial Crisis"
Link to article and video summary
February 20, 2009
"Volcker Calls for Banking Reform, Says Any Inflation Brings Risk in Keynote to Conference on Financial Crisis"
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Edmund Phelps at Davos
January 25, 2009
Russia Today interviews CCS Director Edmund Phelps about how a Western recession could effect the global economy.
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CCS Members at the Global Creative Leadership Summit
September 21, 2008
CCS affiliates (Director Edmund Phelps and Advisory Board Member Richard Robb) discuss "Economy, Dynamism, and Inclusion" in Session B1
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