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Carmen Reinhart – Lessons from History for the COVID Economic Recovery

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

At a time when U.S. federal debt is at its highest level since World War II—and the post-COVID economic recovery around the world remains uncertain—join the Belfer Center’s Applied History Project for an open session of our Applied History Work Group. Its members—distinguished historians and public servants—study the past to illuminate the most pressing challenges we face today.

Date: Time: - Location: Online
Carmen Reinhart

For this session, the Applied History Working Group is delighted to welcome Carmen Reinhart, the Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group, for a discussion on economic recovery in the aftermath of the pandemic, to be moderated by Graham T. Allison.

All HKS affiliates are welcome to attend; register using the RSVP link above.

Carmen Reinhart is the Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. She came to this position on public service leave from Harvard Kennedy School, where she is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System. Previously, she was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland.  Her best-selling book (with Kenneth S. Rogoff), This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, documents the striking similarities of the recurring booms and busts that have characterized financial history.