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*Brother Can You Spare a Trillion?
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from the New Deal and Great Depression*
Monday, June 1
1:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
Cato Institute
With the economy in a deep recession and policymakers turning to massive
government intervention in an attempt to create jobs and bolster the
financial systemit feels like the 1930s all over again. Todays *new* New
Deal is rapidly unfolding, with the Obama administration and many lawmakers
making it clear that any question of the success of FDRs New Deal policies
was resolved long ago: government intervention worked, and history bears
repeating. However, there are deep disagreements about the New Deal, and
whether Roosevelts policies deepened the depression and delayed recovery.
Join us at the Cato Institute on June 1 to be a part of a highly informative
half-day conference. National experts will discuss the economic and legal
impact of the New Deal, and how its legacy is being used and misused to
shape policy responses to current economic hardships.
Confirmed speakers and schedule
*12:30 p.m. Registration*
*1:00 p.m. Opening Keynote Address*
*Amity Shlaes*, Author of the bestseller *The Forgotten Man: A New History
of the Great Depression*, Amity Shlaes is a syndicated columnist for
Bloomberg and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She was
formerly a columnist for the *Financial Times* and a member of the editorial
board of the *Wall Street Journal*.
*1:45 p.m. The New Deal's Economic Legacy*
*Harold Cole*, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania;
consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; and author of
numerous articles on the Great Depression for leading U.S. and international
publications.
*Randall E. Parker*, Professor of Economics, East Carolina University, and
author of the books *Reflections on the Great Depression* and *The Economics
of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics
of the Interwar Era*.
*Price V. Fishback*, Professor of Economics, University of Arizona. The
author of numerous books and articles on economic history, he is currently
involved in a long-term study of the political economy of Roosevelts New
Deal, including related spending and loans and their impact on local
economies throughout the U.S.
*3:15 p.m. The Constitutional Legacy of the New Deal*
*Jeffrey Rosen*, Professor of Law at The George Washington University and
legal affairs editor of *The New Republic.*
*David Schoenbrod*, Trustee Professor of Law at New York Law School, and
author of several highly regarded books, including *Saving Our Environment
from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and
Shortchanges the People*.
*Randy E. Barnett*, Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law
Center, and the author of numerous books, including *Restoring the Lost
Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty.*
*4:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Closing Reception*
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