Book Launch: "Crashed" by Adam Tooze

The Heyman Center was packed for the book launch of Professor Adam Tooze's "Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World".

The event was moderated by Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of History.

Panelists included Tano Santos, David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance in the Finance Division at Columbia Business School, Charles Sabel, Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and Katharina Pistor, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and Director of the Law School’s Center on Legal Transformation.

The event was co-sponsored by the Office of the Divisional Deans in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Department of History, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.

Discussion focused on the book's themes, including the changing legal and political framework in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

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