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L. Randall Wray discusses the 2007-9 Global Financial Crisis and Politics with Class Unity

October 09, 2025

Prof. L. Randall Wray joined Class Unity to talk about the 2007-9 GFC and politics.

Prof. Wray is a professor of Economics at Bard College and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute. Previously, he was a professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City in Kansas City.

You can find Prof. Wray’s papers on the Crisis:

https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_681.pdf
https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_661.pdf
https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_587.pdf

You can find recent works and discussions with him at the following links:

https://youtu.be/RnNGlMrV-8Y https://www.nfrpp.org/2023/03/20/understanding-fiscal-policies-debt-and-entitlements

http://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/?auth=287

His latest book, Money for Beginners, is now available from Polity: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=9781509554607

His 2022 book, Making Money Work for Us, is available from Polity: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=9781509554256

His latest edited book: Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/modern-monetary-theory-9781802208085.html

Recent Books:
Handbook of Economic Stagnation (with Flavia Dantas), Academic Press, Elsevier, 2022: https://www.elsevier.com/books/handbook-of-economic-stagnation/wray/978-0-12-815898-2.

Macroeconomics; Author(s): William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray, Martin Watts; Red Globe Press, Macmillan International; February 2019; https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/Macroeconomics/?K=9781137610669.

Why Minsky Matters: An Introduction to the work of a maverick economist, Princeton University Press http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10575.html

Modern Money Theory: a primer on macroeconomics for sovereign monetary systems, Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/modern-money-theory-l-randall-wray/?isb=9781137539908

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