Everything You Think You Know about the Great Depression Is Wrong

Tuesday, March 15, 2011
7-9 p.m.
D’Angelo Center, Room 306

Professor Steven Horwitz
St. Lawrence University

Steven Horwitz is Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY.  He completed his PhD in economics at George Mason University. He is the author of two books, Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective (Routledge, 2000) and Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order (Westview, 1992). In addition to several dozen articles in numerous professional journals, he has also done nationally recognized public policy work on the role of the private sector during Hurricane Katrina. He has a regular column at The Freeman Online. Horwitz is also a regular guest on the TV show Freedom Watch on Fox Business. At St. Lawrence, he has been the recipient of the the Frank P. Piskor Lectureship for 1998-99 and the J. Calvin Keene Award in 2003, and served as Associate Dean of the First Year from 2001 to 2007. A member of the Mont Pelerin Society, Horwitz has spoken to professional, student, policymaker, and general audiences throughout the US and Canada.

This lecture is made possible by a grant from Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. For questions, please contact Prof. YB Choi (Eco/Fin) at (718) 990-7319