ABSTRACT
On March 1, 2010, the Commission held its first public forum at American University’s Washington College of Law, in Washington DC, during which leading academics in the fields of economics, business, and law were asked to weigh in on each of the 22 specific areas the Commission was charged with exploring, articulating its potential role in the financial crisis. During the twoday forum the commissioners and invited experts engaged in dialogue and debate about the origins of the financial crisis. Interestingly, during the entire 48 hours of contentious debate and discussion, there was not a single recorded mention of the potential role that unbridled greed or the lack of any moral or ethical core to the practice of neoliberal economics may have played as a primary causal factor.
