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Development economists like to study success—how to pull a country out of poverty, how to spur growth, how to improve living conditions—but how do they study a country like Zimbabwe, which has undergone a rapid and devastating economic collapse over the past six years?

What can Zimbabwe's unraveling teach us about the nature of development and the architecture of capitalism? What variables were responsible for Zimbabwe's collapse, and what lessons does it hold for other developing states?

Please join AEI for a luncheon roundtable discussion with Craig Richardson, associate professor of economics at Salem College, and author of a new AEI research paper on Zimbabwe's economic collapse. Other speakers include Marian Tupy, assistant director of the project on global economic liberty at the Cato Institute, and Todd Moss, research fellow at the Center for Global Development.