Laura Tyson, one of the most influential economists in the world today, will deliver The New School for Social Research’s annual Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz lecture. The lecture, Globalization, Outsourcing, and US Prosperity, will take place on September 20, 2005 at 6 p.m. in Tishman auditorium (66 West 12th Street) and will be free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling the box office at 212.229.5488 or by emailing [email protected]. For the more information, visit www.newschool.edu/cepa.
During the Clinton Administration, Laura Tyson was chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors between 1993 and 1995, and chairman of the National Economic Council between 1995 and 1996. Trained at MIT in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Tyson has had a remarkable career both inside and outside the academy. Between 1974 and 1977, she taught at Princeton and then spent the next twenty-five years at the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, she was Class of 1939 Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the department of economics and the Haas School of Business until 2001, the director of the Institute of International Studies between 1990 and 1992, and dean of the Haas School between 1998 and 2001 (the years following her last appointment in the Clinton Whitehouse). In 2002, Tyson became dean of the London School of Business, a position she still holds.
Her scholarly work is just as impressive as her leadership record. A wide-ranging economic expert, Tyson studies everything from current changes in the international economy, to economic development in Eastern Europe, to shifts in US technology, industrial, and trade policy. She has published major books on these topics including: The Yugoslav Economic System and Its Performance in the 1970s (1980), Economic Adjustment in Eastern Europe (1984), and Who’s Bashing Whom? Trade Conflict in High-Technology Industries (1992), as well as numerous edited volumes, reports, and articles, some of them co-authored with other economic advisors of the Clinton administration. What’s more, Tyson is a valued contributor to Business Week magazine, where she has written a regular column for many years.
ABOUT SCEPA & THE IRENE & BERNARD L. SCHWARTZ LECTURE SERIES
The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) is the economic policy research arm of department of economics at The New School for Social Research. The goal of the Schwartz Center is to examine how reforming institutional and legal arrangements under capitalism can improve employment conditions and reduce inequality. The center primarily focuses on the U.S. economy, but is also concerned with the global context of U.S. economic developments. The Schwartz Center’s research activities are complemented by a series of public lectures, economic policy workshops, scholarly books, and conferences.
The annual Irene & Bernard L. Schwartz Lecture Series, sponsored by the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, is designed to help shape debate about crucial policy issues facing the US economy and world economies by inviting distinguished economists to speak to the New School intellectual community. Both the center and lecture series are supported through a generous gift from Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz.
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