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EPS Dinner in Honor of Robert J. Gordon

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You are cordially invited to join Economists for Peace & Security
for dinner in Honor of

Robert J. Gordon

Saturday, January 7, 2012
6:30 – 10:00pm
at
Swissotel
St. Gallen 2 & 3
323 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601

Robert J. Gordon is Stanley G. Harris Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University.  He is one of the world's leading experts on inflation, unemployment, and productivity growth.  His recent work on the rise and fall of the New Economy, the revival and “explosion” of US productivity growth, the stalling of European productivity growth, and the widening of the US income distribution, have been widely cited.  Gordon is author of Macroeconomics, eleventh edition, which has been translated into eight languages, and of The Measurement of Durable Goods Prices, The American Business Cycle, and The Economics of New Goods.   His book of collected essays, Productivity Growth, Inflation, and Unemployment, was published by the Cambridge University Press in 2004.  Gordon did his undergraduate work at Harvard and then attended Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship.  He received his PhD in 1967 at MIT and taught at Harvard and the University of Chicago before joining the faculty of Northwestern University in 1973.  He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and the Observatoire Français des Conjunctures Economiques (Paris), and an economic adviser to the Congressional Budget Office and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Host Committee

Co-Chairs
Richard Parker, Kennedy School, Harvard
Allen Sinai, Decision Economics, Inc.

Ernest Berndt  
The Honorable Rebecca Blank                         
Alan Blinder                            
Andrew F. Brimmer               
Erik Brynjolfsson                    
Robert Coen                           
Seth Ditchek                           
Barry Eichengreen                
Alexander Field                      
Benjamin Friedman               
Robert Hall                             
Dwight Jaffee                         
Dale Mortensen                      
Bill Nordhaus                        
James Poterba 
Valerie Ramey                     
Matthew Shapiro                           
Robert Solow                          
James Stock                           
Mark Watson                         

 

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EPS at the AEA / ASSA meetings

Chicago, Illinois January 6 - 8, 2012

The Economics of Regime Change (Panel discussion)
Friday, January 6, at 10:15 am, Swissotel, Vevey 2
Panel Moderator: Richard Kaufman (Bethesda Research Group)

  • Local Foundations for Strong Democracy, Roger Myerson (University of Chicago)
  • Who Profited from the Iraq War?:  An Analysis of the Beneficiaries of Iraq and Afghanistan War Spending, Linda Bilmes (Harvard University)
  • The Economics of the Arab Spring: A View from Egypt, Hamid Ali (American University in Cairo)
  • Women in Transitions, Jennifer Olmsted (Drew University)
  • Report from the South American Spring, Mark Weisbrot (Center for Economic and Policy Research)

Sustainability (Panel discussion)
Friday, Jan 6, 2:30 pm, Swissotel, Grand Ballroom Salons I & II
Panel Moderator: Michael Intriligator (University of California-Los Angeles)

  • Sustainable Growth, Robert J. Gordon (Northwest University)
  • Sustainable Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci (New School)
  • Sustainable Energy, J. Barkley Rosser (James Madison University)
  • Sustainable Jobs, Allen Sinai (Decision Economics)
  • Sustainable European Union, Richard Parker (Harvard University)