Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Eric Hobsbawm on the Economic Crisis

Sometimes considered one of the greatest living historians, Eric Hobsbawm, whose perspective is decidedly Marxist, has weighed in on the current economic crisis with his perspicacious perspective in the following audioclip from the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7677000/7677683.stm

I stumbled upon this clip from a posting by Adam Becker, scholar of early Christianity from NYU. His comment on the audioclip was "schadenfreude."

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