Dan O'Huiginn

[warning: a mainly-for-my-own-benefit big-list-of-links post]

Despite the left's general crapness in responding to the economic crisis, they must have some ideas, somewhere. I just can't find them. The obvious solution - ploughing through a big pile of documents, and hoping to find something insightful buried within it. Here's the pile - makeshift, incomplete, and poorly-arranged, likely to grow and mutate over time, but (hopefully) containing something worthwhile. My delicious has even less-sorted links. Categories are very vague.

From the left

• Mat Taibbi in Rolling Stone
• The crash - a view from the left, a collection of articles co-edited by Jon Cruddas. Direct link to pdf
• Rowenna Davis' LC post bemoaning the lack of action on the left
• Fabians: pamphlet on green economics, speech by Sunder Katwala, focus-grouped views on bonuses &c
• ATTAC: new docs from France
• Casino Crash: "Critical thinking on the financial and economic crisis"
• Prospect: After Capitalism
• The Nation: Reimagining Socialism
• Demos: Lessons from the global financial crisis
• IPPR: Towards an accountable capitalism, commentary on the G20, and (getting tenuous now) green jobs
• Amartya Sen on 'Capitalism Beyond the Crisis'
• The quiet coup - Atlantic article on the IMF, by Simon Johnson of baseline scenario

From the centre

• Planet Money, a blog and tri-weekly (?) podcast from NPR. The team also made an hour-long introduction
• Obama's latest speech on the economy, giving an overview of what he's been up to
• The Turner Review. Guardian summary. Direct pdf link
• G20 London summit: Communiqué, official site, unofficial information collection
• Esprit issues devoted to the financial crisis, November and December
• Economics blogs/pundits: Paul Krugman, Tyler Cowen, Brad DeLong, The Baseline Scenario, FT Economists' Forum, Nouriel Roubini, naked capitalism

Books

• Max Otte's book Der Crash kommt has been hanging around on German bestseller lists for months. But I haven't seen it mentioned in the English-speaking world, and there doesn't seem even to be an English translation
• Charles Morris, the trillion dollar meltdown
• Robert Shiller, the subprime solution
• Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan
• Charles Kindleberger, Manias, Panics and Crashes. First Chapter
• Friedman, The great contraction. First Chapter
• Books listed in the Turner Review
• Martin Wolf's book Fixing global finance