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The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them

Politics &
Economics

From the currency crises of the 1980s and '90s, to Japan's housing crash, the dot com boom and bust, the global financial meltdown, the euro crisis and the COVID pandemic

Since the Wall Street Crash in 1929, financial meltdowns have repeatedly sent shockwaves through our world. From the currency crises of the 1980s and 1990s, to Japan’s housing crash, the dot com boom and bust, the global financial meltdown, the euro crisis and the COVID pandemic.

In May 2023, economist Linda Yueh came to Intelligence Squared to tell the stories of these historic events and what we can learn from them. Drawing from her new book The Great Crashes, Yueh will explain how economies managed to recover and reveal a three step framework to help recognise the early signs of a crash and try to prevent it from happening at all. Yueh warned about where the next crash might come from and shows how to prepare and prevent them.

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Speakers for the motion

  • Linda Yueh

    Economist, broadcaster, and writer

Chair

  • Jesse Norman

    Politician and author

Speakers are subject to change.

Speakers

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Linda Yueh

Economist, broadcaster, and writer

Economist, broadcaster, and writer. She is Fellow in Economics, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford; Adjunct Professor of Economics, London Business School; and Visiting Professor, IDEAS, London School of Economics. She is the author of The Great Crashes and The Great Economists, a Times Best Business Book of 2018.  
Chair

Jesse Norman

Politician and author

Jesse Norman is Conservative MP for Hereford. He is the author of numerous books, most recently a biography of Edmund Burke, and has written for The Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Guardian and Spectator. His book Compassionate Conservatism has been called the “intellectual guidebook to Cameronism” by the Sunday Times, while the follow-up Compassionate Economics was described as “the most intelligent political tract of 2009, and the best analysis of the credit crunch”. He has been described in the Sunday Telegraph as “As talented as any Tory backbencher is ever likely to be.”