Summary Summer 2001

Summaries of the speeches and sessions at the 11th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on Financial Structure include the remarks of Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City, who discussed the broad policy lessons that can be learned from the recent proliferation of financial crises in developed nations and their implications for the Fed’s role in crisis management.

Contents: Conference Summaries: Quality of Life Indicators; Education Reform outside the School; 11th Annual Minsky Conference · Policy Notes: Put Your Chips on 35 (James K. Galbraith) and Financing Health Care (Walter M. Cadette) · Working Papers include "Euro Instability," "Making EMU Work," and "Will the Euro Bring Economic Crisis to Europe?"