HARVARD UNIVERSITY ECONOMIST MARTIN FELDSTEIN TO DISCUSS
THE STATE OF SOCIAL SECURITY IN AMERICA
ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2002 AT 7 PM

New School University President Bob Kerrey to lead an
open discussion after the lecture

(New York, NY - February 6, 2002) The Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA) at New School University will host a lecture with noted Harvard University Economist and President of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Martin Feldstein. Dr. Feldstein will offer his views on the state of the Social Security system in America and suggest potential paths to reform. An open discussion with New School University President, Bob Kerrey, will follow the lecture. The event will take place on Wednesday, February 13, 2002 from 7 PM - 8:30 PM at New School University (66 W. 12th Street, 7th Floor - Orozco Room). Press should RSVP by calling 212-229-5667, extension 239.

Martin Feldstein is the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President of the National Bureau of Economic Research. The National Bureau is a private, nonprofit research organization that has specialized for more than 80 years in producing nonpartisan studies of the American economy. From 1982 through 1984, Martin Feldstein was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and President Reagan's chief economic adviser.

Dr. Feldstein is a director of four corporations (American International Group; TRW; HCA; and Eli Lilly) and an economic adviser to several businesses in the United States and abroad. He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal. Martin Feldstein is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University.

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The Economics Department at the Graduate Faculty of New School University has been an international center of research and teaching in political economy for over 50 years. Led by pioneering critical economic thinkers including Adolph Lowe and Thorstein Veblen in the 1930's and 1940's when the Graduate Faculty gained worldwide renown as the University in Exile, the New School Economics Department continued under the leadership of such scholars as Robert Heilbroner, David Gordon and John Eatwell. The department remains committed to Robert Heilbroner's ideal of economics as a "worldly philosophy" of human social and political life, which can guide the powerful tools of mathematical and statistical method.

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