A New New Deal

APR 21 TUE: 07:00pm; Hammer Forum

: James Galbraith Photo courtesy of the LBJ School, University of Texas, Austin.

With banks failing, credit frozen, homes foreclosing, and unemployment rising at a rate not experienced since the Great Depression, how does President Obama stimulate the economy back to life? One of Obama’s economic advisers, Dr. James Galbraith, will join us to outline a “New New Deal” to save our economy. Galbraith teaches economics at the LBJ School at the University of Texas, Austin, where he is also the Director of The Inequality Project. Galbraith serves as Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security. He writes a column called “Econoclast” for Mother Jones and occasional commentary in many other publications, including The Texas Observer, The American Prospect, and The Nation. His new book is The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too.

Moderated by Ian Masters—journalist, commentator, author, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and the host of the radio programBackground Briefing on KPFK 90.7FM.

ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required.

Parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6:00pm.

Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss.

Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and the Hammer Programs Committee.