Yale’s Gorton analyzes financial crisis at beattie lecture
October 1, 2014
Gary Gorton
Influential economist Gary Gorton, an expert in the global financial crisis from the Yale School of Management, delivered the fifth annual Beattie Family Lecture in Business Law at Western’s Faculty of Law on Wednesday November 13, 2013.
Gorton spoke on “The Financial Crisis: What Happened?” and explained how a subprime mortgage problem morphed into a full-scale financial crisis.
His lucid analysis was a sobering reminder of the importance of thoughtful and informed regulation in the financial sector and of the danger of accepting hasty or populist explanations of complex financial issues.
Geoff Beattie, LLB’84, chairman of Relay Ventures and former CEO of The Woodbridge Company Limited, established the Beattie Family Lecture Series in Business Law in 2008.
Past speakers in the series include Nobel Prize-winning economists Robert Shiller and George Akerlof, chancellor Leo E. Strine Jr. of the Delaware Court of Chancery and Lawrence Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and president emeritus of Harvard University.
This article appeared in the Western Law 2014 Alumni Magazine.
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