Christina Romer chaired the Council of Economic Advisors during the Great Recession. Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen and an all-star lineup of professors from Berkeley, MIT, and Harvard explain how Romer's expertise on the Great Depression helped guide our policy response during a crisis.
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Christina Romer chaired the Council of Economic Advisors during the Great Recession. Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen and an all-star lineup of professors from Berkeley, MIT, and Harvard explain how Romer's expertise on the Great Depression helped guide our policy response during a crisis.
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As the CEA Chair, Romer was grappling with the Great Recession in real time, including trying to identify its proximate causes in order to determine the best solutions to mitigate it. This video tackles just one cause of The Great Recession: financial intermediation failure.
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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
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Policymakers like Romer recommend fiscal and monetary policy in order to combat a recession. Learn about how and why fiscal policy can be used by Romer and others to mitigate the effects of The Great Recession.
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As the CEA Chair, Romer was grappling with the Great Recession in real time, including trying to identify its proximate causes in order to determine the best solutions to mitigate it. This video tackles just one cause of The Great Recession: financial intermediation failure.
Romer has made several contributions to our understanding of the Great Depression, ranging from its relationship to Black Tuesday to how the US finally recovered. Here is a summary of some of the major factors that led to and compounded The Great Depression.
In this Freakonomics podcast, Romer shares what the Great Recession and Great Depression can teach us about the pandemic-induced crash.
In this PBS FRONTLINE interview, Romer recounts the extent of economic damage caused during the Great Recession.
Romer has made several contributions to our understanding of the Great Depression, ranging from its relationship to Black Tuesday to how the US finally recovered. Here is a summary of some of the major factors that led to and compounded The Great Depression.
Policymakers like Romer recommend fiscal and monetary policy in order to combat a recession. Learn about how and why fiscal policy can be used by Romer and others to mitigate the effects of The Great Recession.
In this Freakonomics podcast, Romer shares what the Great Recession and Great Depression can teach us about the pandemic-induced crash.
In this PBS FRONTLINE interview, Romer recounts the extent of economic damage caused during the Great Recession.
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
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Ben Bernanke
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Christina Romer
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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.
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.
