The Great Recession, fallout, and what we learned / Eskander Alvi -- The Great Depression and the Great Recession in a historical mirror / Barry Eichengreen -- The Great Recession and lessons for policymaking / Gary Burtless -- Central banking in the Great Recession : new policies, old principles / Donald Kohn -- Fiscal policy and full employment / Laurence Ball, J. Bradford DeLong, and Lawrence H. Summers -- International dimensions of the Great Recession and the weak recovery / Kathryn M.E. Domiguez
Summary
The contributors to this book describe the unprecedented events that led up to the Great Recession, and policymakers' moves to right the economy