When:
Wed Nov 19 •
5:00 pm
Where:
McConnell Theater, Daniel Arts Center
The election may be over, but the economic crisis remains. Bard College at Simon’s Rock brings prominent economist and President of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, to campus for for a discussion of our current economic situation on Wednesday, November 19, 2008, at 5:00 p.m. Moderated by economics faculty member Fatma Gül Ünal, Papadimitriou will offer expert insight into the financial crisis and the future of the economy. The event takes place in the McConnell Theater in the College’s Daniel Arts Center. It is free and open to the public.
Dimitri Papadimitriou is president of the Levy Institute and executive vice president and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics at Bard College. He has testified on a number of occasions in hearings of Senate and House of Representatives Committees of the U.S. Congress, was vice-chairman of the Trade Deficit Review Commission of the U.S. Congress (2000–01) and was a member of the Competitiveness Policy Council's Subcouncil on Capital Allocation. Papadimitriou heads the Levy Institute's macroeconomic modeling team studying and simulating the U.S. and world economies. In addition, he has authored and coauthored studies relating to Federal Reserve policy, fiscal policy, employment growth, and Social Security reform.
Simon’s Rock economics faculty member, Gul Ünal will moderate questions from the audience. Ünal has received fellowships to participate in scholarly workshops on development, economics, inequality, poverty, and gender. She is also a staff economist for Center for Popular Economics (CPE) at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has taught economic courses for non-profit organizations. Ünal has presented her research at many national and international conferences.
