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Podcast for April 2, 2011 [ 2:09:50 | 118.86 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (96)

Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed:

• economist Ha-Joon Chang teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Ha-Joon’s past books include, “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free trade and the Secret History of Capitalism” (Bloomsbury Press) and the 2003 Myraid Prize-winning “Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective: Policies and Institutions for Economic Development in Historical Perspective.” His latest book is, “23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism” (Bloomsbury Press).

• historian and foreign policy analyst James Peck, is the author of “Ideal Illusions: How the US Government Co-opted Human Rights” (Metropolitan Books). James is founder of the Culture and Civilization of China Project at Yale University Press and the China International Publishing Group in Beijing.

• Charles Wohlforth is author of “The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth” (Picador). Charles is the Los Angeles Times Books Prize-Winning author of, “The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change” (Longitude Books). He winters in Anchorage – who doesn’t – and in the Summer lives on a remote, off-the-grid Kachemak Bay shoreline reachable only by boat.

Our irregular correspondent was:

- LaddieO.com live from the hermetically sealed clean rooms at URL Labs