In this video, Harvard's Claudia Goldin, UC Berkeley's Christina Romer, and more present Anna Schwartz's life and research. Schwartz — hailed as one of the most important monetary economists of the 20th century — changed our understanding of the Great Depression and monetary policy with her influential book A Monetary History of the United States.
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Perhaps you have some questions like:
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In this video, Harvard's Claudia Goldin, UC Berkeley's Christina Romer, and more present Anna Schwartz's life and research. Schwartz—hailed as one of the most important monetary economists of the 20th century—changed our understanding of the Great Depression and monetary policy with her influential book A Monetary History of the United States.
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If you're a bit rusty on how monetary policy works, you're not alone! In this video from MRU's Principles of Macroeconomics course, we summarize the basics of how monetary policy works. Spoiler alert: the Great Recession changed how we do monetary policy. If you want to learn how, there's a separate video for it!
Learn More About The Great Depression and Monetary Policy
Learn More About Anna Schwartz
Perhaps you have some questions like:
What do economists do? Seriously.
Are there lots of jobs? Good pay?
What are current female economists up to?
We've gathered up the best resources from around the web to address these and more. You'll be merrily on your way to econ nerdom!
Test Yourself
If you're a bit rusty on how monetary policy works, you're not alone! In this video from MRU's Principles of Macroeconomics course, we summarize the basics of how monetary policy works. Spoiler alert: the Great Recession changed how we do monetary policy. If you want to learn how, there's a separate video for it!
Learn More About The Great Depression and Monetary Policy
In this video from MRU's Principles of Macroeconomics course, we go over factors causing the Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in U.S. history, including Schwartz's and Friedman's discovery of the Fed's role.
Christina Romer
Featuring:
Featuring:
Claudia
Goldin
Christina
Romer
In this video from MRU's Principles of Macroeconomics course, we go over factors causing the Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in U.S. history, including Schwartz's and Friedman's discovery of the Fed's role.
Featuring:
Ostrom was the first female to win the Nobel Prize in economics due to her pioneering work on the tragedy of the commons.
Christina Romer
Yellen was the first female Chair of the Fed, where she worked during and after the Great Recession. She has also made significant theoretical contributions to the field.
Claudia Goldin
Schwartz and Milton Friedman co-authored “A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960”, which is the definitive diagnosis of the Great Depression.
Tyler Cowen
Featuring:
Ben Bernanke
Featuring:
Christina Romer
Featuring:
Nancy Rose
David Romer
Romer has devoted her academic career to enriching our understanding of business cycles. She also applied this deep expertise to help tackle the Great Recession by serving as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Featuring:
Ed Glaeser
Lawrence Katz
Goldin, the first female economist to receive tenure at Harvard, is the leading expert on changes in US women's workforce participation over the last 200 years.
Ostrom was the first female to win the Nobel Prize in economics due to her pioneering work on the tragedy of the commons.
Christina Romer
Yellen was the first female Chair of the Fed, where she worked during and after the Great Recession. She has also made significant theoretical contributions to the field.
Claudia Goldin
Schwartz and Milton Friedman co-authored “A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960”, which is the definitive diagnosis of the Great Depression.
Tyler Cowen
Featuring:
Ben Bernanke
Featuring:
Featuring:
Christina Romer
Featuring:
Nancy Rose
David Romer
Romer has devoted her academic career to enriching our understanding of business cycles. She also applied this deep expertise to help tackle the Great Recession by serving as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Featuring:
Ed Glaeser
Lawrence Katz
Goldin, the first female economist to receive tenure at Harvard, is the leading expert on changes in US women's workforce participation over the last 200 years.