This video records William White’s presentation to MA students in the EPOG program on 16 January 2018 in Paris.

This video includes William White’s presentation at an American Enterprise Institute conference in Washington on 14 February 2018. Mr White’s remarks begin about one hour after the start, which featured a presentation by Alan Greenspan.

The bubble economy — Is this time different?

This presentation was made at a conference in Switzerland, organized as part of the debate in preperation for a popular referendum on the adoption of a “narrow money” proposal. My presentation made the case for thinking more radically about system reform than has been done to date.

William White, as chairman of the Economic and Development Review Committee at the OECD, was invited to speak to the Ambassadors at their annual retreat on the topic of the future work program of the OECD. He gave strong support to the OECD project called NAEC, New Approaches to Economic Challenges. This project was initiated by the Secretary General in recognition of the shortcomings of the analytical appraches relied upon prior to the crisis, which failed to see the crisis coming and also failed to predict both its magnitude and duration.

William White  was asked by the organizers to sum up the proceedings at the end of the conference. These are his personal observations. The offical summary, jointly drafted with the conference organizers, is on this website under Publications.