The Wilson Quarterly
Lessons of the Great Depression
The Great Depression has long been regarded as a one-off economic event, so catastrophic that, with the preventative measures now in place, it could never be repeated. Today, as we grapple with a years-long global economic downturn whose ultimate contours remain unknown, the Depression is increasingly relevant to the present.
Dialogue TV & Radio
The Quarterly Report: Lesson of the Great Depression
Feb 20, 2012 - Feb 29, 2012
(Episode #2408)
Steve Lagerfeld, Wilson Quarterly editor; Robert Aliber, Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business; David Wessel, a current public policy scholar at the center and economics editor for The Wall Street Journal . Watch