On March 6, The Nation and The Nation Institute gathered a panel for a discussion about the financial crisis. Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich, Black Commentator‘s Bill Fletcher, Jr., The New School’s Jeff Madrick and The Nation‘s DC editor

held a wide-ranging debate about the origins of the financial collapse, the efficacy of President Obama’s stimulus package and various proposals for the future. The event marked the publication of Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover (Nation Books) by Katrina vanden Heuvel and the editors of The Nation.

Meltdown: The Economic Collapse and a People’s Plan for Recovery will also be broadcast on CSpan’s Book-TV on April 5th at 3PM and April 6th at 6:15AM.

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