Simon Johnson is a professor of economics at MIT and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was the chief economist for the International Monetary Fund from March 2007 through August 2008. Johnson is the co-author, with James Kwak, of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown, a bestselling assessment of the dangers the US financial sector now poses (published by Pantheon in March 2010).
Dan Richards interviewed Johnson at the American Economic Association in late January.
A transcript of this interview is available here.
What caused the financial crisis?
Will the Eurozone survive?
The wall street takeover and the
next
financial meltdown
The case for raising bank capital requirements
