Amity Shlaes, Author of the bestseller The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, Amity Shlaes is a syndicated columnist for Bloomberg and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She was formerly a columnist for the Financial Times and a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.

Harold Cole, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania; consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia;  and author of numerous articles on the Great Depression for leading U.S. and international publications. 

Randall E. Parker, Professor of Economics, East Carolina University, and author of the books Reflections on the Great Depression and The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era.

Price V. Fishback, Professor of Economics, University of Arizona. The author of numerous books and articles on economic history, he is currently involved in a long-term study of the political economy of Roosevelt's New Deal, including related spending and loans and their impact on local economies throughout the U.S.

Moderator: Sallie James, policy analyst, Cato Institute

Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law at The George Washington University and legal affairs editor of The New Republic.

David Schoenbrod, Trustee Professor of Law at New York Law School, and author of a number of books, including Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People.

Randy E. Barnett, Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center. The author of numerous books, including Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, he lectures internationally and appears frequently on radio and television programs such as the CBS Evening News, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and Talk of the Nation.

Moderator: Gene Healy, vice president, Cato Institute, and author of Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power.