The Answer to the Debt-Ceiling Standoff & Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 10 a.m.

b'Part I. The Answer to The Debt Ceiling Standoff\\xa0\\nGuest: James K. Galbraith is Professor of Government and Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a former staff economist for the House Banking Committee and a former executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.\\xa0 He is the author of Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know (2016)\\xa0and\\xa0Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (2016).\\n\\xa0\\nPart II. The Making of American Capitalism\\nGuest: Edward E. Baptist\\xa0is a\\xa0professor of history at Cornell University. Author of the award-winning\\xa0Creating an Old South and\\xa0The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\nFeature photo by Adam Nir\\xa0on\\xa0Unsplash\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xa0\\nThe post The Answer to the Debt-Ceiling Standoff & Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.'