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Presenters
Paul KrugmanPrinceton University
Keynote Address: The New World of Macroeconomic Policy
Friday, March 6, 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 BallJohns Hopkins University
The Current Financial Crisis
Friday, March 6, 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.
Alex TabarrokGeorge Mason University
The Future of Economic Growth
Friday, March 6, 2009
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Alex Tabarrok is co-authoring (with Tyler Cowen) The Modern Principles of Economics from Worth Publishers. He is Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and director of research for The Independent Institute.
Tabarrok and Cowen co-author the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. Tabarrok’s recent research looks at bounty hunters, judicial incentives and elections, crime control, patent reform, methods to increase the supply of human organs for transplant, and the regulation of pharmaceuticals. He is the editor of the books Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science; The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society; and Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime. His papers have appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The American Law and Economics Review, Kyklos and many other journals. His popular articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other magazines and newspapers.