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The Effects of Overexpansion: The Panic of 1873 and the World Economy

Mar 26, 2009

Lecture at the GHI | Speaker: Richard E. Sylla (New York University) | Lecture Series: Financial Crises: How They Changed History

Spring Lecture Series 2009

Financial Crises: How They Changed History

The Effects of Overexpansion: The Panic of 1873 and the World Economy
Richard E. Sylla (New York University)
March 26, 2009
The Great Depression: Can It Recur?
Harold James (Princeton University)
April 23, 2009
The Great American Real Estate Bubble of the 1920’s
Eugene N. White (Rutgers University)
April 30, 2009
Death or Rebirth? The End of the Bretton Woods System, 1968 – 1973
James J. Boughton (International Monetary Fund)
May 21, 2009
The Current Global Financial Crisis: Origins, Consequences, and Remedies
Adam S. Posen (Peterson Institute for International Economics) In cooperation with the Bertelsmann Foundation
June 04, 2009