The Economic Crisis and the Crisis in Economics

Sessions

  1. Where are we now? Debts, Deficits and Global Financial Stability

    Featuring John Cassidy

    Apr 7, 2010 | 10:00—11:30

  2. 1930 and the Challenge of the Depression for Economic Thinking

    Featuring Robert Skidelsky and Bruce Caldwell

    Apr 7, 2010 | 03:00—05:00

  3. What Kind of Theory to Guide Reform and Restructuring of the Financial and Non-Financial Sectors?

    Featuring Franklin Allen, Sheila Dow, Axel Leijonhufvud, and Joe Stiglitz

    Apr 8, 2010 | 09:50—11:40

  4. Anatomy of Crisis- The Living History of the Last 30 Years: Economic Theory, Politics and Policy

    Featuring George Soros, Perry G. Mehrling, William White, and Roman Frydman

    Apr 8, 2010 | 03:00—04:50

  5. Has the Efficient Market Hypothesis Led to the Crisis? Collapsed with The Crisis?

    Featuring George Akerlof, Markus K. Brunnermeier, Michael Goldberg, and Jeremy Siegel

    Apr 8, 2010 | 05:15—07:25

  6. Networks and Systemic Risk

    Featuring Sanjeev Goyal, Frank Kelly, and Doyne Farmer

    Apr 8, 2010 | 08:15—09:45

  7. Toward a New Global Financial Architecture

    Featuring Anton Korinek, Y. Venugopal Reddy, Hélène Rey, and Charles Dallara

    Apr 8, 2010 | 12:00—01:45

  8. How Empirical Evidence Does or Does Not Influence Economic Thinking and Theory: Calibration, Statistical Inference, and Structural Change

    Featuring Lars Peter Hansen, David Hendry, Katarina Juselius, Christopher Sims, and Harald Uhlig

    Apr 9, 2010 | 04:05—06:10

  9. Mathematical Models: Rigorously Testable, Qualitative Metaphors, or Simply an Entry Barrier

    Featuring Duncan Foley, Tony Lawson, and Sir James Alexander Mirrlees, FBA

    Apr 9, 2010 | 06:30—08:05

  10. The Consequences of Inequality and Wealth Distribution

    Featuring James K. Galbraith, Kate Pickett, and Branko Milanovic

    Apr 9, 2010 | 10:00—12:15

  11. Political Economy: What Can Government Do? What Will Government Do?

    Featuring Marcello De Cecco, Thomas Ferguson, Edward J. Kane, and Simon Johnson

    Apr 9, 2010 | 12:15—02:05