Can the Fed Manage Inflation and Recession?
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
6:00pm — 7:00pm ET
Columbia University / virtual event
Do the Fed’s efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality?
Join Lev Menand, author of The Fed Unbound, along with Katharina Pistor, Simon Johnson, and Nicholas Lemann, as they take a hard look at perhaps the most powerful and misunderstood institution in the world: The Federal Reserve.
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Over the years, the erosion of banking law and the rise of alternative forms of money created outside of the banking system have pushed the Fed to take on more and more responsibilities. In The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis, former Treasury official Lev Menand looks at the causes and consequences of the central bank’s growing role in our society, ultimately making the case for reform.
Learn more and get your copy of The Fed Unbound here
Featuring
Lev Menand, Columbia associate professor of law and former senior advisor to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Katharina Pistor, Columbia professor of law and author of The Code of Capital
Simon Johnson, MIT Sloan professor and coauthor of 13 Bankers
Nicholas Lemann, Dean Emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School, and director of Columbia Global Reports
Do the Fed’s efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality? Join Lev Menand, author of The Fed Unbound, along with Katharina Pistor, Simon Johnson, and Nicholas Lemann, as they take a hard look at perhaps the most powerful and misunderstood institution in the world: The Federal Reserve. Watch the event: Over the years, the erosion… more
Columbia University / virtual event