Just a note to encourage dailykos readers, especially those interested in the Anti-Capitalist group, to check out a talk by British economist, Lord Adair Turner, to the Bretton Woods economic conference recently sponsored by George Soros's Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).
Soros gathered together many respected economists to discuss the current economic crisis and its solutions. There were some not-so-respected thinkers there too, including Larry Summers and former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. Reportedly, both have drastically changed their tunes, singing to the conference about the benefits of government regulation. A bit late boys. (I guess Summers has now made sufficient money to abandon Milton Friedman, while Brown has been suddenly seized by a workingman's conscience and now regrets he didn't regulate the banks!)
Turner, however, is well worth hearing, and I've just spent a fascinating hour and a half listening to a video tape of his talk to the conference, which includes a valuable question and answer session. One questioner was, I think, Duncan Black, a long-time contributor to DailyKos.
