Grasping at the Realities of Today's Banking Crisis: Brad DeLong on the new economic laws of our social media age


Author: Andrew Keen March 17, 2023 Duration: 37:56
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Grasping at the Realities of Today's Banking Crisis: Brad DeLong on the new economic laws of our social media age

EPISODE 1373: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the UC Berkeley economist and author of SLOUCHING TOWARD UTOPIA author Brad Delong about today's banking crisis, ChatGPT4 and the new economic laws of our social media age

Brad DeLong is a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he teaches economic history, political economy, macroeconomies, and occasional other topics. He was a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury during the Clinton Administration. He is a New York Times instant bestselling author for Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century 

Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.


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