The "Symposium on Humanistic Economics" and reception in honor of Dr. Alice M. Rivlin, Vice Chair of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, will be in the Wilson Alumni Center Seminar Room. Registration will be1-1:30 p.m.; the symposium, 1:30-4 p.m.; and the reception, 4-6 p.m.
Tickets are free of charge. For more information, contact Barbara Tedesco, Associate Dean of the School of Management, (973) 596-3264.
Symposium Participants
Alice M. Rivlin has a long and distinguished history of service to the public and private sectors in the area of economics. As the current Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Dr. Rivlin is serving a four-year term that runs through June, 2000. Her term as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors extends through 2010. Before joining the Federal Reserve, she served as Director (1994-96) and Deputy Director (1993-94) of the White House Office of Management and Budget. She was founding Director of the Congressional Budget Office, serving there from 1975 to 1983. Dr. Rivlin has been a staff member and Director of Economic Studies for the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution and also served as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program Coordination at HEW. Dr. Rivlin received the MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship. She has taught at Harvard University and was Hirst Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University in 1992. Dr. Rivlin earned a Ph.D. in economics from Radcliffe College in 1958. A member of the boards of directors for several corporations, she is a past President of the American Economic Society. Dr. Rivlin has written numerous books, the most recent of which is Reviving the American Dream. She is a frequent contributor to newspapers, magazines and journals. Married to an economist, Stanley G. Winter, she has three children and three grandchildren.
Alan Blinder is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton University. As a predecessor of Alice Rivlin as Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Dr. Blinder represented the Federal Reserve at various international meetings and was a member of the Board’s committees on Bank Supervision and Regulation, Consumer and Community Affairs, and Derivative Instruments. Prior to his affiliation with the Federal Reserve, Dr. Blinder served on President Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers where he oversaw macroeconomic forecasting and also worked intensively on budget, international trade, and health care issues. Dr. Blinder served briefly as Deputy Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office at that agency’s inception in 1975 and has testified before Congress on a wide variety of public policy issues. Dr. Blinder earned a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971 in economics. Dr. Blinder served as Chair of Princeton’s Department of Economics from 1988 to 1990, and founded Princeton’s Center for Economic Policy Studies. Dr. Blinder is the author or co-author of 12 books, including the popular introductory textbook, Economics: Principles and Policy (with William J. Baumol), now in its seventh edition. His writings include scores of scholarly articles on such topics as fiscal and monetary policy and the distribution of income. For nearly a decade, Dr. Blinder wrote a lively monthly column in BusinessWeek magazine. He and his wife, Madeline, live in Princeton, New Jersey; they have two sons, Scott and William.
Romesh Diwan is a Professor of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was a Department Chair from 1982 to 1987. Prior to joining RPI, he taught at Punjab University, India, the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the University of Hawaii. He has consulted to the United Nations, IRIS, and MTI; has been a National Science Foundation grant recipient; and held visiting positions with Washington University, St. Louis, the London School of Economics, and Gadjah Mada University. Dr. Diwan’s more than 120 articles and book reviews have appeared in numerous academic journals and he has written for the popular press and appeared on radio and television in many countries. Dr. Diwan earned his Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, UK. Dr. Diwan was the founding Chair of the Executive Committee of the Association of Indian Economics Studies (1975-1981), and represented international studies at the UNCSTED Conference in Vienna (1979). He is a Fellow of the International Institute of Social Economics, coordinator of the International Society of Gandhian Studies, member of the India International Center, member of the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, and Chair of the Board of Trustees of AIES. He lives in Troy, New York.
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