John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture: A Conversation with Michael Spence

Monday, May 16, 2011
Speaker
A. Michael Spence

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Recipient, Nobel Prize in Economics; Former Chairman of the Commission on Growth and Development (2006-2010); Author, The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World

Presider
John Cassidy

Staff Writer, The New Yorker

John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture and The John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture

CFR's Michael Spence discusses his new book, The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World,  as well as the rapid growth rates in India and China.

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