True and False Lessons Drawn from the Structural Slump (Audio)
Edmund S. Phelps, professor of political economy at Columbia University, discusses the causes of the economic slump in the United States.
Speaker: Edmund S. Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society and McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University; 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics
Presider: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Columnist, New York Times; Co-Anchor, CNBC’s Squawk Box
November 21, 2011
Edmund S. Phelps, professor of political economy at Columbia University, discusses the causes of the economic slump in the United States.
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Edmund S. Phelps, professor of political economy at Columbia University, discusses the causes of the economic slump in the United States.