Financial Crises and Economic Inequality

Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics & Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is also Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Massachusetts and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. We speak to Professor Eichengreen about his most recent book “Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses - and Misuses - of History.”