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Recent Events
November 2008
Doug Holtz-Eakin
About Doug:
Dr. Holtz-Eakin has a long and distinguished career of public service as an economic advisor to policy makers. As the former head of the CBO, he was Congress's chief numbers cruncher, giving lawmakers objective and independent analyses of the fiscal effects of proposed laws. Dr. Holtz-Eakin also served for 18 months as Chief Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors under President George W. Bush and for two years as Senior Staff Economist for President George H. W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisors. Dr. Holtz-Eakin has held academic appointments at Columbia and Princeton Universities and was Chairman and Trustee Professor of Economics and Associate Director of the Maxwell Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University. He was Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and the Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
October 2008
Peter Wallison
About Peter:
Peter J. Wallison holds the Arthur F. Burns Chair in Financial Policy Studies and is co-director of AEI's program on financial markets deregulation. Prior to joining AEI, he practiced banking, corporate, and financial law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C., and New York. Mr. Wallison has held a number of government positions. From June 1981 to January 1985, he was general counsel of the United States Treasury Department, where he had a significant role in the development of the Reagan administration's proposals for deregulation in the financial services industry, served as general counsel to the Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee, and participated in the Treasury Department's efforts to deal with the debt held by less-developed countries. During 1986 and 1987, Mr. Wallison was White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan. Between 1972 and 1976, Mr. Wallison served first as special assistant to New York's Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and, subsequently, as counsel to Mr. Rockefeller when he was vice president of the United States. Mr. Wallison is admitted to practice before the courts of the District of Columbia, and he is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1963 and law degree from Harvard Law School in 1966.
September 2008
Tyler Cowen
About Tyler:
Tyler Cowen has a Ph.D in economics from Harvard University and is currently a professor of economics at George Mason University. He has edited the volume Public Goods and Market Failures, and has written Explorations in the New Monetary Economics with Randall Kroszner. He has just finished a book, Markets and Cultural Voices, April 2005, and has three other books in print: In Praise of Commercial Culture, What Price Fame?, and Creative Destruction. Tyler publishes daily at the The MarginalRevolution blog and has a very popular ethnic dining guide for Washington, DC.
April's Event
Grover Norquist
About Grover Norquist:
Mr. Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a coalition of taxpayer groups, individuals and businesses opposed to higher taxes at both the federal, state and local levels. ATR organizes the TAXPAYER PROTECTION PLEDGE, which asks all candidates for federal and state office to commit themselves in writing to oppose all tax increases.
February's Event:
Stephen Rose
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About the Stephen Rose:
Stephen Rose has published a series of monographs and articles on the changing state of the middle class, the nature of the new service economy, earnings and income mobility, the economic gender gap, and the determinants of who attends highly-selective universities. His findings have been often cited in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and other mass media outlets.
Currently, Dr. Rose is the principal at Rose Economic Consulting and is writing a book on changing social conditions (Number Games: The Declining Middle Class and Other Economic Myths). Previously, Rose served in a number of research and policy positions at Third Way: A Strategy Center for Progressives, U.S. Department of Labor, National Commission for Employment Policy, Joint Economic Committee, ORC Macro, and Educational Testing Service.
Rose has a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a doctoral degree in economics from The City University of New York.
January
Peter Wehner
Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Topic:
The Future of Conservatism
Peter Wehner, former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives, is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He writes widely on political, cultural, religious, and national-security issues, and is undertaking a project to explore the future of conservatism.
Mr. Wehner served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations prior to becoming deputy director of speechwriting for President George W. Bush in 2001. In 2002, he was asked to head the Office of Strategic Initiatives, where he generated policy ideas, reached out to public intellectuals, published op-eds and essays, and provided counsel on a range of domestic and international issues.
Prior to joining the Bush Administration, Wehner was executive director for policy for Empower America, a conservative public-policy organization headed by William J. Bennett, Jack Kemp, and Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Mr. Wehner also served as a special assistant to the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and, before that, as a speechwriter for then-Secretary of Education Bill Bennett.
A native of Dallas, Texas, Mr. Wehner grew up in Richland, Washington and is a graduate of the University of Washington. He and his wife Cindy have three children and live in McLean, Virginia.