or How the World Economy Fell Apart and Why the Economists Didn’t Have A Clue
James K. Galbraith examines current economic debates about austerity, government spending, tax policy, and job creation. How much is our understanding – on Main Street and on Wall Street, in Washington and at America’s kitchen tables – about the economy driven by economic theory? By politics? What impact do these abstract ideas have on our well-being?
Recorded September 8
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The late essayist-physician Oliver Sacks memorably reflected at Cambridge Forum on music and its mysterious relationship to the brain In his book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Sacks argued that music is essential to being human in ways that have only begun to be understood. Neurologist Oliver Sacks explores “your brain on music”, asking why humans make music and what music-making does for the individual and society.