Larry Summers @ Harvard Course Overview: This course will examine the American policy response to the recent financial crisis and associated Great Recession. The objective is to illuminate (i) the changes in macroeconomic thinking necessitated by recent events (ii) the relationship between analytical macroeconomics, finance and policymaking in a political context (iii) lessons of recent … Continue reading History and Evaluation of the Policy Response to the Great Recession: Summers BGP-266M Crisis Economics Syllabus