“Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street” at Occupy Boston’s Free School University on October 7, 2011 (Video 3 of 3) Mark Blyth and Kevin P. Gallagher discuss how Wall Street interests have hijacked the debates of crisis and debt in the US and across the globe and in so doing have duped publics into thinking that austerity is the route to recovery and growth. Nothing could be further from the truth. — Mark Blyth is professor of international political economy at Brown University and fellow at the Watson Institute for International Affairs. Kevin P. Gallagher is associate professor of international relations at Boston University and research associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University. Blyth and Gallagher both blog at Triple Crisis (www.triplecrisis.com), a global blog of political economists writing about the crises in finance, development, and the environment.
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