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Conference | May 2021

29th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the US and World Economies

Prospects and Challenges for the US and Europe in an Emerging Post-Pandemic Recovery
A virtual conference organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
May 5–6, 2021


This year the Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of US and World Economies was a two-day, virtual event featuring speakers from government, academia, financial institutions, and the media, as well as Levy Institute scholars.

Presenters included Robert Kaplan, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Charles Evans, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Patricia McCoy, Boston College; Kathryn Judge, Columbia University School of Law; James Paulsen, The Leuthold Group; Bruce Greenwald, Columbia Business School; Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics; Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs; Jason Furman, Harvard University; Frank Veneroso, Veneroso Associates; Lakshman Achuthan, Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI); Robert Barbera, Johns Hopkins University; Paolo Savona, CONSOB; Lex Hoogduin, University of Groningen; Michael Greenberger, University of Maryland Law School; Bruce Kasman, JP Morgan; Denis MacShane, former Europe Minister and Avisa Partners; Peter Coy, Bloomberg Businessweek; David P. Henry, Reuters;  and Binyamin Appelbaum, Deborah Solomon, and Jeanna Smialek, New York Times.

The conference program and more details are available here.

Click here for video coverage of the individual speakers and panels.

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