Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY – Economic Historian Peter Temin, Ph.D., will present a lecture "What the Great Depression Tells Us" on Friday, May 8, at 12:30 p.m., in the Middle Plaza Room, Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus.

Presented by the Hofstra Association of Retired Professors (HARP), Dr. Temin, the Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will talk about the lessons of the Great Depression and their application for today’s economic downturn.

Dr. Temin is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles, including Reasonable Rx: How to Lower Drug Price (2008 Financial Times Press) with Stan Finkelstein, M.D.; The World Economy Between the Wars (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) with Charles Feinstein and Gianni Toniolo; Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England (ed.). (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000); Elites, Minorities, and Economic Growth (eds.) (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999) with Elise S. Brezis; Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Nations (eds.) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) with Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Daniel M. G. Raff; and The European Economy Between the Wars (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) with Charles Feinstein and Gianni Toniolo, translated into Italian as L'economia europea tra le due guerre (Laterza, Roma-Bari 1998).

Dr. Temin received his B.A. from Swarthmore College, 1959 (Economics; with highest honors) and his Ph.D. from, MIT, 1964 (Economics). He joined MIT in 1961 as a teaching assistant in the Department of Economics and became a full professor of economics in 1970.

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