October 2008: Listen to BPR’s full interview with UC Berkeley Professor Brad DeLong

The interview was conducted between BPR editor-in-chief Lisa Xu and economics professor Brad DeLong for Volume 8, Issue 1, the first issue of fall 2008. Excerpts from the interview appear in the print edition, but the full interview is only available online in this podcast. Professor DeLong talks about a wide range of economic issues, including the recent financial crisis sparked by the fall of Lehman Brothers, the differences between the  economic proposals of Barack Obama and John McCain, and the importance of health care reform–no matter who wins the election.

March 2009: Listen to BPR’s full interviews with UC Berkeley Professors Brad DeLong and Konstantin Magin

The interviews were conducted between BPR writer Daniel Schmidt and economics professors Brad DeLong and Konstantin Magin for Volume 8, Issue 3, the first issue of spring 2009. Excerpts from the interviews appear in the print edition, but the full interviews are only available online in this podcast. Professors DeLong and Magin talk about the financial crisis from opposite sides of the macroeconomic spectrum with topics ranging from the stimulus package to Keynesian economics and the Invisible Hand.