In the interest of moving us closer to an ideal speech situation...

[Bradford DeLong]

I am running two workshop sessions at the World Economic Forum. The 
first is a discussion of just why it was that this most recent 
recession caught everybody (or everybody except those who had been 
unsuccessfully predicting a recession every year since 1995) by 
surprise. The second is a discussion of the future of the mixed 
economy--more specifically, what will the shape of 
business-government relations be in the approaching post-neoliberal 
age.

I've put my own (very brief) notes on these questions up on the web 
at <http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TotW/recession_surprise.html> 
and at 
<http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TotW/business_and_government.html>. 
Anyone who has anything to say--or anything that they think should be 
said--is welcome to add their comments to those web pages...

Brad DeLong