Agenda Guests
Back to all guestsPerry Mehrling
Perry Mehrling is professor of economics at Barnard College, Columbia University and senior advisor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He is also the author of The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort.
Videos
Economics in Uncertain Times
October 28, 2011
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Economists failed to predict the current downturn and appear empty of ideas to pull the world out of recession. Have we put too much faith in the dismal science?
Episodes
October 28, 2011
When the economic downturn hit, we turned to economists, who failed to predict it in the first place. Is that their fault or our fault?
