September 23, 2010 - 5:05pm -- jim
"The End of Capitalism"
Lewis Lapham and Lynn Parramore
[This is the second installment of "The Influencers," a six-part interview series that Lynn Parramore, the editor of New Deal 2.0 and a media fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, is conducting for Salon. She talked to Lewis Lapham, the former longtime editor of Harper’s and the founder of Lapham’s Quarterly, about the nature of American-style capitalism — its beginning, its historical manifestation and, possibly, its end.
Q: Historically, what do you see as the dominant characteristics of America?
