The Role of Labor Policy
Watch experts analyze the various labor policies of the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations and the effects they had on the Great...
Speakers: Price V. Fishback, Frank and Clara Kramer Professor of Economics, University of Arizona
Peter Temin, Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard K. Vedder, Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics and Faculty Associate, Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University
Lee E. Ohanian, Professor of Economics and Director, Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research, University of California, Los Angeles
Presider: John Tamny, Editor, RealClearMarkets.com
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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