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the GFC and me. Ten years on, what have we learned?

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
the GFC and me. Ten years on, what have we learned?Wayne Swan and Kevin Rudd spent big and spent bold, and it almost certainly kept us out of recession.

A little more than a decade on from the the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the largest bankruptcy in history, many of the world’s advanced economies are only now beginning to recover fully.

I was on the faculty at the University of Chicago at...

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