A Conference on the "Great Depression and the American Economy" to be held at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA., October 1996

该奖项旨在举办一次会议，重点关注大萧条如何影响公共政策的实施。 特别是，会议将提供关于大萧条对货币政策，财政稳定政策，州和地方与联邦支出的相对规模，政府参与保险和监管劳动力市场以及国际经济关系的趋势的影响的论文。 会议论文将作为 会议卷，这将是感兴趣的学术研究人员以及政策制定者感兴趣的经济政策问题。

This award is to hold a conference focusing on how the Great Depression has affected the conduct of public policy. In particular, the conference will offer papers on the impact of the Great Depression on trends in the conduct of monetary policy, fiscal stabilization policy, the relative magnitude of state and local versus federal spending, government involvement in insuring and regulating labor markets, and international economic relations. The conference papers will be published as conference volume which will be of interest both to academic researchers as well policy makers interested in economic policy matters.