Hagley’s Fall Conference: Crisis and Consequence

  Wilmington, Delaware – November 2010 –  Not since the Great Depression have Americans been faced with an economy as challenging as the current situation.  To gain an historical perspective on our current economic and political challenges, join Hagley Museum and Library’s Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society for the keynote address of its Fall Conference “Crisis and Consequence.” Richard Sylla, NYU Stern School of Business, will present “Consequence of Crises” in the Copeland Room on Thursday, November 4, 7 p.m. Sylla is a nationally recognized expert on the history of American financial markets, depressions, and economics. 

                Richard Sylla is Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets and Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is the author of The American Capital Market, 1846-1914 (1975); co-author of The Evolution of the American Economy (1993; 1^st ed., 1980) and A History of Interest Rates, (4^th ed., 2005; 3^rd ed. Rev., 1996; 3^rd ed., 1991); and co-editor of Patterns of European Industrialization—The Nineteenth Century (1991), The State, the Financial System, and Economic Modernization (1999); and Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s (forthcoming 2010), as well as numerous articles, essays, and reviews in business, economic, and financial history.

                “Professor Sylla is an astute analyst whose opinions are widely quoted in the press, most recently the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal,” observed Roger Horowitz, conference coordinator at Hagley.  “Sylla’s lecture will be an opportunity for those in our area to hear his views firsthand – and how he sees history helping us understand our current predicament.”

                The Fall Conference will focus on the history of financial crises and their impact on American culture. It will offer context and consideration of the current economic crisis. Visit our website www.hagley.org for more information and to register for the conference.

The conference is sponsored, in part, by the Delaware Humanities Forum.

                The Hagley Library is the nation’s leading business history library, archives, and research center. Current holdings comprise 36,000 linear feet in the Manuscripts and Archives Department, 290,000 printed volumes in the Imprints Department, and 2 million visual items in the Pictorial Department.  The Library operates a research grant program, and offers conferences, research seminars, and a public lecture series. 

Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. Hagley is located on Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays or visit www.hagley.org

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