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Brown University issued the following news release:
Kenneth S. Rogoff, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, will deliver the inaugural lecture of the Fredric B. Garonzik '64 Lecture Series on International Economics and Finance on Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, at 5:30 p.m. in Sayles Hall. His talk, titled "The Second Wave of the Second Great Contraction," is free and open to the public.
Following the lecture, Rogoff will sign copies of his recent co-authored book, This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Princeton University Press, 2009).
Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff (http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/rogoff/rogoff.html) is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics at Harvard University. From 2001-03, Rogoff served as chief economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund. Rogoff's treatise Foundations of International Macroeconomics (jointly with Maurice Obstfeld)...