The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 29: The Fall that Wasn’t: A Decade Since the Financial Crisis

The 2008 financial crisis shook to the core not only the global economy, but also prevailing myths about the efficiency of markets, the possibility of endless profits and growth, and the inviolability of capitalism. In The Fall that Wasn’t: a Decade Since the Financial Crisis, documentarian Astra Taylor and journalist Sarah Jaffe join BISR faculty Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Rebecca Ariel Porte, and Raphaële Chappe for a wide-ranging panel discussion of the causes and contexts of the crash, as well as its lasting, overwhelming consequences for policy, politics, and culture. In addition to retracing the blow-by-blow of events, panelists discuss neoliberalism and capitalism, austerity, accountability, political and aesthetic repercussions, and the nature of crisis itself.

Apologies for drops in audio at 47 minutes and 1:24 minutes. Please see the embedded video of the Verso event, which partially addresses the gaps!

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Footnotes

Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History”

Ben Bernanke, “The Great Moderation” (2004) and “Subprime Mortgage Woes Won’t Seriously Hurt Economy.” (2007).

Ann Boyer, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution.

The burden of disease in Greece, health loss, risk factors, and health financing, 2000–16: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet.

David Dayen, “He Was the Resistance Inside the Obama Administration.”

David Faber, And Then the Roof Caved In: How Wall Street’s Greed and Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees.

Anthony Faiola, “The End of American Capitalism?”

The Fall That Wasn’t Timeline Handout

Charles Ferguson, Inside Job (film).

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, Is There No Alternative?

Lauren Greenfield, The Queen of Versailles (film), Kids and Money (film), and Generation Wealth (film).

Frederick Hayek, The Road to Serfdom.

Homer, Odyssey .

Stuart Jeffries, “Karl Marx’s guide to the end of capitalism: a primer.”

Steve Keen, Developing an Economics for the Post-Crisis World  and Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?

Jazra Khaleed, “The War is Coming.”

John Lanchester, Capital.

William Lazonick, “Profits Without Prosperity

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto.

Adam Mckay, The Big Short (film).

Hyman Minsky, Can “It” Happen Again? Essays on Instability and Finance.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown.

Yascha Mounk , The People Vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It.

Franz Neumann, The Rule of Law: Political Theory and the Legal System in Modern Society.

The Pod Complex with Rick Unger (featuring Mark Blyth), “What Caused the Financial Crisis and Will It Happen Again?

John Plender, “Capitalism in convulsion: Toxic assets head towards the public balance sheet.”

Stamatis Polenakis (trans. A.E. Stallings), “Poetry Does Not Suffice.”

Richard A. Posner, A Failure of Capitalism.

Gabriela Ramos and Yanna P. Yannakakis, Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes.

Carol Reed, The Third Man (film).

Zadie Smith, NW.

Juliana Spahr, That Winter the Wolf Came.

Astra Taylor, Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America and What Is Democracy? (film).

Karen Van Dyck, Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry.

Yanis Varoufakis, The Global Minotaur.

Jess Walter, The Financial Lives of the Poets.