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Amity Shlaes points out that running a business can be very different from running an economy.
Speaker: Robert E. Lucas Jr., 1995 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences; John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Presider: Carl J. Schramm, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Introductory Speaker: Amity Shlaes, Senior Fellow for Economic History, Council on Foreign Relations
March 30, 2009
This session was part of the CFR Symposium on a Second Look at the Great 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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