Roundtable: The West’s Decade of Despair

Project Syndicate interviews Robert J. Shiller, Stephen S. Roach, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Angus Deaton.It has been ten years since the global financial crisis devastated economies worldwide and ushered in an era of unprecedented monetary policies, national debt crises, and untold suffering and loss for billions of people. In this roundtable discussion, we examine the causes, consequences, and lessons learned (or not learned) from the 2008 crash and the Great Recession that followed it.