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The financial crisis hit global markets hard and fast, but it would be wrong to say that no one saw it coming. On Feb. 26, NYC Program students attended a talk by a Financial Times journalist who saw dark clouds approaching long before an unprecedented ice storm froze the markets. Martin Wolf, whose 2008 book Fixing Global Finance anticipated some of the causes of the crisis, discussed how the world got into such grave economic turmoil and a few scenarios on how it might get out.

Professor of Economics Erol Balkan and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Henry Rutz have co-authored “Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul,” a text published in January by Berghahn Books.