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| Douglas Elmendorf | Joseph Aldy | Nicholas Burns | Jason Furman | Juliette Kayyem | Wendy Sherman | Sandra Susan Smith
November 12, 2020, Video: "Harvard Kennedy School faculty discuss the challenges faced by the incoming U.S. presidential administration, and possible policy prescriptions for dealing with them." Watch Via HKS on Youtube
August 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, on income inequality and the new Gilded Age, the jobs of the future, and the long historical arc of capitalism. | Click here…
| Lawrence H. Summers
April 24, 2020, Video. "Lawrence. H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, calls for the federal government to prioritize helping state and local governments instead of stepping in to support the high-yield market. Summers also says he has no formal relationship with the Joe Biden campaign. He joins host David Westin for an exclusive take on Bloomberg Wall Street Week. "
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| Lawrence H. Summers | Robin Greenwood | Carmen Reinhart | Dani Rodrik | Juliette Kayyem | Herman B. (Dutch) Leonard
April 23, 2020, Video. "On Tuesday April 14th, Harvard Business School hosted the MBA Program’s COVID-19 Symposium. The symposium consisted of a series of fireside chats between HBS faculty and several of Harvard University’s leading thinkers, who help us better understand the challenges that COVID-19 poses to public health, to our economies and globalization, and to the way we live. Speakers included Ashish Jha of the Harvard Chan School of…
| Lawrence H. Summers
April 21, 2020, Video. "Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University. He served as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton and the Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama. "
| Jason Furman
The Time to Worry About Debt Is After the Pandemic. Jason Furman, April 2, 2020, Video, "Jason Furman, Harvard Kennedy School professor of the practice of the economy, discusses the build-up of U.S. debt from stimulus aimed at combating the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."" Link
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| Lawrence H. Summers
U.S. government should spend ‘whatever it takes’ to control virus. Lawrence Summers, March 26, 2020, Video, "Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has deep experience in economic policy. On Wednesday, he was among a bipartisan group of economic experts urging U.S. officials to prioritize resolving the pandemic’s medical emergency before trying to rectify its economic fallout. Summers joins Judy Woodruff to discuss direct payments to…
| Jason Furman
Former Obama chief economist on $2T stimulus bill: I'm not sure if it's enough. Jason Furman, March 25, 2020, Video, "Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair under Obama & Harvard Economics Professor Jason Furman joins Yahoo Finance’s Zack Guzman and Brian Cheung to discuss the $2T coronavirus stimulus proposal facing a vote in the Senate on Yahoo Finance."…
| Jeremy Stein | James H. Stock | Jason Furman
The economy and policy in the coronavirus crisis to date. James Stock, Robert Barro, Jason Furman, Jeremy Stein, Video: "This conversation took place during the Spring 2020 conference on the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Participants included Daniel Lewis of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Jan Hatzius from Goldman Sachs, and Lucrezia Reichlin of the London Business School discussing the economic outlook in the face of COVID-19.…
| Lawrence H. Summers
2020, Paper, "With interest rates persistently low or even negative in advanced countries, policymakers have barely any room to ease monetary policy when the next recession hits. Fiscal policy will have to play a major and likely dominant role in stimulating the economy, requiring policymakers to fundamentally reconsider fiscal policy. Blanchard and Summers argue for the introduction of what they call “semiautomatic” stabilizers. Unlike purely…