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Big Think Interview With Simon Johnson New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A conversation with MIT professor and Peter Institute for International Economics senior fellow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simon Johnson: Simon Johnson is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a co-founder of the economic blog BaselineScenario.com, and the former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund. He is the co-author, with James Kwak, of "13 Bankers," a recent book that assesses the U.S. financial sector's role in the economic crisis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: uestion: Why did you focus your book on a 2009 meeting at the White House? Simon Johnson: I was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund through August of 2008 and when the crisis broke really intensely in September, James Kwak and I set up a blog, Baseline Scenario, where we follow the crisis, we wrote about what was happening, we made policy proposals. We did the kind of thing that I had done at the IMF, but in a completely open source, private sector way for free over the web. And as we wrote and as we were engaged in this analysis we were quite horrified by how well the banks were being treated

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