Following are excerpts from a symposium on the economic crisis presented by The New York Review of Books and PEN World Voices at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 30...

The primary causes of the current financial crisis were government actions and interventions, not sub-prime mortgages, misbehavior on Wall Street or any inherent flaw in the U.S. economy, Stanford University Professor John B. Taylor told attendees at the annual meeting of the CFA Society of Los Angeles (CFALA) Wednesday night...

This is a speech I gave at a conference in Utah on globalization and trade...

The American people are pretty well convinced that the mortgage meltdown was the fault of greedy bankers, stupid borrowers, and the odd Friend of Angelo Mozilo like Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT)...