William K. Black, Paolo Manasse, and John Weeks discuss the Euro and the danger of global recession Story Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington. As 2011 comes to a close, the central story, of course, is still the global economic crisis. The European Central […]
Author Archives: Paolo Manasse, John Weeks, and William K. Black.
Paolo Manasse, Economics Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy. He teaches macro and International Economic Policy. He worked as a Consultant for the OECD, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and was a resident Consultant, Visiting Scholar and Technical Assistance Adviser for the IMF.
John Weeks, Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Development Policy and Research, and Research on Money and Finance Group at the School of Oriental & African Studies at the University of London.
William K. Black, associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, teaches White-Collar Crime, Public Finance, Antitrust, Law & Economics. A former financial regulator, he held several senior regulatory positions during the S&L debacle. Black is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One (2005) which focuses on the role of ?control fraud? in financial crises. Black developed the concept of "control fraud" ? frauds in which the CEO or head of state uses the entity as a "weapon." Control frauds cause greater financial losses than all other forms of property crime combined.