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A Conversation on the State of the Economy with
Nobel Laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman

Join us for the second annual Fashion and Finance Forum featuring Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman. They will address the stresses present in the dysfunctional U.S. economy and how our society can put itself back on track. Stiglitz and Krugman will focus on the concepts of crisis and repair as seen through the lenses of inequality and fiscal balance. 

October 23, 2012, 7 PM
Morris W. and Fannie B. Haft Auditorium
Fashion Institute of Technology
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street, New York City

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Tickets are $50 ($15 for FIT alumni) and include hardcover copies of the books The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz and End This Depression Now by Paul Krugman. A limited number of $25 tickets are available for the talk only.

Moderator:
Robert Johnson, executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking

Speakers:
Joseph Stiglitz is a professor of economics at Columbia University. Stiglitz is the former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001.

Paul Krugman is a professor of economics at Princeton University and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. Krugman has written over 20 books and more than 750 columns on economic and political issues for the Times. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008.

The program is presented in partnership with the Institute for New Economic Thinking and Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers.

Special thanks to our sponsors