. >> reporter: i know people who think you were unfair to laura tyson and ruth simmons for apparently just not having given you an interview. >> there were dozens of other people who turned down interviews. we mentioned it in the film when we thought that it was relevant. >> reporter: but ruth simmons? the president of brown university? >> she's on the board of goldman sachs. laura tyson makes $350,000 a year in cash plus some stock as a member of the board of morgan stanley, and one will look in vain for statements by laura tyson about how investment banking behaved unethically during the crisis. >> reporter: tyson-- a berkeley professor who chaired president clinton's council of economic advisors-- and simmons both declined to talk to us as well. but in fact, the economics profession has responded to "inside job." at its annual convention in january, its official body decided to work on a code of ethics that might well include full disclosure. the film has had a demonstrable impact. so, does ferguson think everything is okay? >> no, everything is not okay. it is still possible to pu

i asked former white house adviser, laura tyson if the gulf states should partner with the g-8 in the relief effort. >> this is a great opportunity for the countries in the region with significant surpluses, who also have embraced economic reform and development and modernization to really work together with other members of the g-20 to come up with a package to support modernization and economic reform and development in these newly emerging democracies. >> isn't there a danger if you don't move fast enough and peep have expectations of a transition that goes smoothly and it falls flat on its feet? >> there's a huge amount of economic frustration, large amounts of poverty, large amounts of disappointed futures. now a huge expectation that the transition will lead to success and of course the process itself has made it more difficult. that is the instability created by the transitions actually has discouraged tourism as we all know, a major source of economic livelihood and prosperity for many, many people in the region. >> there's the instinct in egypt to scrub the cupboard clean bef