Banking system in crisis: The Fed and popular governance

Robert Bruner, the Miller Center's Compton Visiting Professor of World Politics, is University Professor at the University of Virginia, distinguished professor of business administration, and dean emeritus of the Darden School of Business. He also has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, INSEAD in France, and IESE in Spain. He has a forthcoming visiting appointment at Harvard. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books on finance, management, and teaching. A faculty member since 1982 and winner of leading awards at the University of Virginia and within the Commonwealth of Virginia, he teaches and conducts research in finance and management.

Jon Moen is an associate professor of economics and the chair of the economics department at the University of Mississippi. His current research re-estimates historical labor force participation rates for men sixty-five and older in the United States. He also maintains research interests in banking panics in historical perspective and is working on a book about the Bank Panic of 1907. He also is a cellist in the Lafayette-Oxford-University Symphony Orchestra. He earned his B.A. from St. Olaf College and holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Mary Tone Rodgers completed her MBA at the Kellogg School at Northwestern University in 1981 and worked at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith for 30 years before completing her doctorate at Pace University in New York City in 2011. A CFA charterholder, she advises in an asset management practice. As the Marcia Belmar Willock Endowed Professor of Finance at the State University of New York (Oswego), her research interests include financial markets, banking and financial history, and financial crises. She holds a Chandler Research Fellowship in Business History at Harvard Business School and has presented her work at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, and the Federal Reserve.

Scott Miller, a research fellow at the Miller Center, is lecturer and research associate at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. From 2019 to 2021, he held a postdoctoral fellowship in economic and business history at the Yale School of Management’s International Center for Finance. As an economic historian, Miller examines the development of modern economic systems, particularly during periods of instability and volatility. He is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly papers on economic history, financial crises, and the interplay between societal and economic change. He also has written or co-written 10 case studies on financial crises and economic development.