Policy Responses to the Great Recession: The Interaction of Leadership and Economic Ideas

Date/Time:	Thursday, 01 Dec 2011 at 8:00 pm
Location:	Great Hall, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
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Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Diversity Lectures
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As Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from January 2009 until September 2010, Christina Romer was one of the four economics principals who met with President Obama daily to design and guide the Administration's response to the Great Recession. She is the class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Fall 2011 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics

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An expert in economic history and macroeconomics, Christina Romer is a leading scholar on the causes of the Great Depression and the impact of monetary and fiscal policy. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times "Economic View" column in the Sunday business section. She is also a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television.

Romer is the recipient of numerous awards for her scholarship and teaching, including the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, a Simon P. Guggenheim fellowship, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a BA from the College of William and Mary and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Recent NY Times columns:

A Plan on Jobs Deserves a Hearing, September 24, 2011
From World War II: Economic Lessons for Today - The Hope that Flows from History, August 14, 2011
Raising Taxes vs. Cutting Spending: The Rock and the Hard Place on the Deficit, July 3, 2011