A huge crowd stormed the doors early at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday evening, eager to hear the megastar lineup (constellated by PEN World Voices and the New York Review of Books) talk about the global financial meltdown, the future, where we stand. Bill Bradley, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, George Soros, and Robin Wells. 

As the economic crisis swirled in the background, some of the best economic thinkers/authors in the land sat together to answer the question of the day posed by moderator Jeff Madrick of The Cooper Union and The New School.

What is the state of the economy? Do we need to change policy? And what is the future…. And what will we learn on...