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Bloomberg interview with Edmund Phelps

Date: August 23, 2011

On August 23, 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.  For a link to the video, please click here.

Clarín Article Features Center Director Edmund Phelps (Spanish only)

Date: May 08, 2011
Center Director Edmund Phelps's interview entitled 'Phelps: "La principal causa de la inflación es la política monetaria expansiva".'
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Book Reviews: Roman Frydman and Michael D. Goldberg's "Beyond Mechanical Markets" (Selected Press)

Date: May 03, 2011

Bloomberg News
May 3, 2011
James Pressley reviews Center Member Roman Frydman's newest book, "Beyond Mechanical Markets" (co-authored by Michael D. Goldberg) in an article entitled "Robo-Investors Beware."
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Financial Times
April 20, 2011
John Kay's review entitled "Sirens or hobgoblins, consistency depends on the context."
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Financial World
April 20, 2011
Keyar Patel's review entitled "Theory Fanatics."
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Financial Times
April 18, 2011
James Mackintosh's review entitled "Better Models Alone Won't Avert Crisis."
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The Times
March 25, 2011
Anatole Kaletsky's review entitled "Pragmatism is king in our vague new world."
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Financial Times
March 12, 2011
John Auther's review entitled "We need new models in an uncertain world."
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The Economist
February 24, 2011
Buttonwood's review entitled "A new attempt to explain market inefficiency." 
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The Wall Street Journal
November 30, 2010
Mark Whitehouse's review entitled "Economists' Grail: A Post-Crash Model."
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TIME article features Edmund Phelps

Date: April 04, 2011
In the Time article "Wall Street: Aiding the Economic Recovery, or Strangling It?" Rana Foroohar cites Center Director Edmund Phelps's views on the productivity slowdown in the United States.
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Edmund Phelps in Italy's Il Foglio

Date: March 11, 2011
This feature article in Italy's Daily Il Foglio focuses on Center Director Edmund Phelps's views on the roots of the discontent of the Arab youth and the justice of their demands.
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Financial Times Article Features Center Members Amar Bhidé and Roman Frydman

Date: March 11, 2011
In the weekend's Lex column, "We need new models in an uncertain world," John Authers discusses at length the two recent books by members of the Center on Capitalism and Society Amar Bhidé and Roman Frydman (co-authored by Michael Goldberg).  These two books are key steps in the revolution of economics that the Center is undertaking.
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"Inside Job," which includes interviews with two Center Members, wins the 2011 Oscar for Best Documentary

Date: 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.
 

Book Reviews: Amar Bhidé's 'A Call for Judgment' (Selected Press)

Date: February 25, 2011

The Deal Economy
February 25, 2011
Robert Teitelman reviews Center Member Amar Bhide's newest book, "A Call for Judgment." In it, Teitelman notes that Bhide's book is "a very impressive effort, full of fascinating connections and shrewd observations" and that it is "perhaps the most complete argument for utility banking -- and one of the most sophisticated takes on the financial crisis yet published." 
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Bookforum.com
December/January 2011
Reihan Salam's review entitled "Uncertain Embrace: Arguing for a system free of omniscient financiers."
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VoxEu
October 29, 2010
Amar Bhidé is interviewed by Romesh Vaitilingam in an article entitled "Sensible finance for a dynamic economy."
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Reuters
September 30, 2010
Emily Flitter's review in Reuters entitled "Business Books: 'Insiders' designed failure for financial reform."
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5 Questions with Glenn Hubbard

Date: February 08, 2011

The Fiscals Times's interview with Glenn Hubbard.
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Camera dei Deputati

Date: February 02, 2011

On February 2, 2011 in Italy's Camera dei Deputati Center Director Edmund Phelps gave the keynote lecture and closing remarks at the conference To Remake Italy (Per rifare l'Italia). For his written speech and a transcript of his closing remarks please follow the link, for the video please click the following links (part 1 of the speech, part 2 of the speech, part 3 of the speech, Phelps's closing remarks). For the Working Capital video-interview with Edmund Phelps, please follow the link. For Il Sole 24 Ore's extensive article focusing on Phelps’s proposals and the other speakers’s reactions to it, please follow this link.