Presenters

Paul Krugman
Princeton University
Keynote Address: The New World of Macroeconomic Policy
Friday, April 24, 2009
12:30 pm-1:45 pm

Paul Krugman is the sole recipient of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.  He is co-author (with Robin Wells, also of Princeton University) of Economics, Second Edition, from Worth Publishers.

Krugman is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, where he regularly teaches the principles course. He received his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from MIT. Prior to his current position, he taught at Yale, Stanford, and MIT. He also spent a year on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors in 1982-83. In 1991, Krugman received the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark medal His research is mainly in the area of international trade.  In announcing the Nobel Prize, The Royal Swedish Academy cited Krugman’s work advancing a theory on trading patterns and what goods are produced by certain countries.

In addition to his teaching and academic research, Krugman writes extensively for nontechnical audiences.  Heis a regular op-ed columnist for The New York Times, and is the author of the bestselling The Great Unraveling, Peddling Prosperity and The Age of Diminished Expectations.

Laurence Ball
Johns Hopkins University
The Current Financial Crisis
Friday, April 24, 2009
3:45 pm – 4:45 pm

Laurence Ball is the author of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets from Worth Publishers.  He is Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University.

Ball is a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been a visiting scholar at the Central Bank of Norway and the Reserve Bank of Australia. His academic honors include the Houblon-Norman Fellowship (Bank of England), a Professional Fellowship in Monetary Economics (Victoria University of Wellington and Reserve Bank of New Zealand), the NBER Olin Fellowship, and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Professor Ball’s research focuses on inflation, deflation, and monetary policy in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.

Tyler Cowen
George Mason University
Can Real Business Cycle Theory Explain Business Cycles?
Friday, April 24, 2009
9:00 am – 10:00 am

Tyler Cowen is co-authoring (with Alex Tabarrok) The Modern Principles of Economics (from Worth Publishers).  He is Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. 

Cowen has published widely in economics journals, including the American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy.  With Alex Tabarrok he co-writes the Marginal Revolution blog, often ranked as the #1 economics blog.  He is also the author of Discover Your Inner Economist (Dutton, 2007) and numerous other books on economics.  He writes regularly for the popular press on economics, including for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and The Wilson Quarterly.

Joe Harrington
Johns Hopkins University
Playing Games: Teaching game theory to majors and non-majors
Friday, April 24, 2009
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. is the author of Games, Strategies, and Decision Making from Worth Publishers.  He is Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. He has served on numerous editorial boards, including the RAND Journal of Economics, Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, and the Southern Economic Journal.

Harrington’s research has appeared in top journals in a variety of disciplines including economics (e.g., the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Games and Economic Behavior), political science (Economics and Politics, Public Choice), sociology (American Journal of Sociology), organizational behavior (Management Science), and psychology (Journal of Mathematical Psychology). He is a co-author of the leading textbook, Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, which is currently in its Fourth Edition.