The American Economic Association meetings are where the mainstream of the economics profession gets together to push the discipline forward, eat cheese, and get hammered away from their wives, husbands, and partners. The papers are all available here. Two I've read so far are Robert Shiller's Economists as Worldly Philosophers and Anthony Atkinson's The Restoration of Welfare Economics. Both are superb and worth reading through.
Thanks for the link. Pity can't watch videos of the panel discussions. Particularly this one:
Jan 07, 2011 10:15 am, Sheraton, Governor's Square 15
American Economic Association
What's Wrong (and Right) with Economics? Implications of the Financial Crisis (A1) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: JOHN QUIGGIN (University of Queensland, Australia)
BRAD DELONG (University of California-Berkeley) Lessons for Keynesians
TYLER COWEN (George Mason University) Lessons for Libertarians
SCOTT SUMNER (Bentley University) A defense of the Efficent Markets Hypothesis
JAMES K. GALBRAITH (University of Texas-Austin) Mainstream economics after the crisis
Barra, DeLong and Sumner did blog about their talks, well worth reading their blogs regularly, too.