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Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School, Mitt Romney economic advisor and author of Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity, weighs in on inequality, taxation and the Citigroup shareholder vote.

Early next month President Obama will offer a plan intended to spur the U.S. economy, with a focus on job creation and deficit reduction. Some of its proposals have been made clear: he intends to continue a two-percent payroll tax cut for workers and renew unemployment benefits. But what else might be in there? And, for that matter, what should be in there?

Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School and member of the Bush administration's economic team, and Peter Navarro, CNBC contributor and business professor at UC Irvine, discuss their new book Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity, in which they offer their views on saving the economy.

Dean of Columbia Business School and the Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance, Glenn Hubbard, discusses how the same energy and money we devote to charity can be devoted to local business to help end poverty in developing nations. The Aid Trap: Hard Truths about Ending Poverty, ...