C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics: A New Foundation for Growth - Assessing the Economic Recovery and Future

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Speaker
Peter R. Orszag
Director, Office of Management and Budget
Presider
R. Glenn Hubbard
Columbia University

The C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics is presented by the Corporate Program and the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.

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