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Watch experts discuss lessons learned from the 1930s that can be applied to today's financial crisis, including the importance of leadership...
Speakers: Jonathan Alter, Senior Editor and Columnist, Newsweek
Harold Cole, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government and Business Relations, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Amity Shlaes, Senior Fellow for Economic History, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: James F. Hoge Jr., Peter G. Peterson Chair and Editor, Foreign Affairs
March 30, 2009
This session was part of the CFR Symposium on a Second Look at the Depression and the New Deal, cosponsored by Dean Thomas Cooley of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, and supported by a special grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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Watch experts discuss lessons learned from the 1930s that can be applied to today's financial crisis, including the importance of leadership...
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