THE SABRIN CENTER FOR FREE ENTERPRISE
and Anisfield School of Business present:

“The Crash of ‘29: Lessons Learned”

A SYMPOSIUM:
Could It Happen Again?

Thursday, October 17, 7-9 p.m. | Trustees Pavilion
Moderated by Murray Sabrin, Professor of Finance, Anisfield School of Business

Presentation Files

• War, Boom, Depression, Boom, Crash, Depression – Dr. Murray Sabrin
• Stock Market Crash Presentation – Constance Crawford
• Monetary Policy Before, During and After the 1929 Crash – Charles Steindel

PANELISTS:

Constance Crawford is a Professor of Accounting at Ramapo College since 1992. She has a B.S. from Fordham University and an M.B.A. and C.P.A. from Iona College. She teaches Principles of Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Advanced Financial Accounting in addition to Auditing and Federal Taxation at the undergrad level and Financial Statistic Analysis, Auditing and Accounting for Managerial Decision Making in the MSAC and MBA programs. Crawford has completed research in the ethical implications of taxation on society and the viability of guest worker program on the U.S. economy. She has published in the Journal of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics and the CPA Journal among others.

Karl Johnson is Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Chair and Co-Covener of the African Studies major and group at Ramapo College of New Jersey and has a B.A. in Economics and History from Rutgers College and a Ph.D. in History from Temple University. Karl is a professional historian who
has worked in the private savings bank sector in N.Y.C. (the Era of the Savings & Loan Crisis) before becoming an academic. He has also worked for SPRINT in various management and technological innovation positions in the 1990s. Johnson’s academic expertise is on the past and current social
and political experiences of African Americans and its Diaspora. He has several publications with the University of Chicago Press, The Journal of American Ethnic History and the prestigious Journal of African American History. Additionally, he has presented numerous professional papers at prestigious conferences both nationally and internationally.

Joseph T. Salerno is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pace University in New York and Academic Vice President of the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. He is also the John V. Denson II Endowed Professor of Economics at Auburn University. Dr. Salerno is the author of numerous articles
in economic journals and the author of the book Money: Sound and Unsound. He has testified before Congress several times on the topics of money, banking, and inflation.

Charles Steindel is Resident Scholar at the Anisfield School of Business, and editor of Business Economics. He was formerly Chief Economist at the New Jersey Department of the Treasury, with responsibility for economic and revenue projections and analysis of state economic policy. He came to the Treasury after a long career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he played a leading role in forecasting and policy advice, and attended Federal Open Market Committee meetings. He has served in leading roles in a number of professional organizations. In 2011 he received the William F. Butler Award from the New York Association for Business Economics, and in 2017 delivered Ramapo College’s Sebastian J. Raciti Memorial Lecture. He is a member of the panel for the Survey of Professional Forecasters and the Committee on Research in Income and Wealth, and has published papers in a range of areas. He is the author of Economic Indicators for Professionals: Putting the Statistics into Perspective. He received his bachelor’s degree from Emory University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a National Association for Business Economics Certified Business EconomistTM.

This event has been made possible by a grant from
the Sabrin Center for Free Enterprise and the Ramapo College Foundation.