Riding The Economic Rollercoaster




KERA's Think show

Summary: <p><em><em><em><em>[2014-11-18 12:00:00] </em></em></em></em><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the 1950s until 2000, America enjoyed fairly stable economic growth. But the economy has been a lot shakier since the Great Recession of 2008. We’ll talk this hour about why these rapid fluctuations might be here to stay with James K. Galbraith, the chair of the Government/Business Relations department at the School of Public Affairs at UT-Austin. His new book is</span></span><span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Gill Sans MT,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/End-Normal-Crisis-Future-Growth/dp/1451644922/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1416247362&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=end+of+normal" target="_blank">The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth</a>.</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>