Lecture: Economics in the Current Crisis

Fri., Oct 17, 2008 - Time: 1:30pm

Author and former Boston Globe economics journalist David Warsh will present a talk entitled "Economics in the Current Crisis" at the Isenberg School of Management. The lecture is open to the public.


In his talk, Warsh will examine public images of the economics profession in the current crisis, and the profession's own self-appraisal. He will cover wide ranging topics, including IMF meetings in Washington this weekend, the Nobel Prize, the changing role of policy economists, and what may be expected of the people now entering the profession as graduate students.

David Warsh is proprietor of Economic Principals, an independent Web-based weekly. For more than 20 years, he covered economics for The Boston Globe. Before that, he reported on business for Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, and from Vietnam,

for Pacific Stars and Stripes and Newsweek. A two-time winner of financial journalism's Loeb Award, he was a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin in 2004. He is the author of Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations (W.W. Norton 2006), The Idea of Economic Complexity (Viking, 1984) and Economic Principals: Masters and Mavericks of Modern Economics (The Free Press, 1993), a collection of his newspaper columns.

The lecture is a highlight of the Isenberg School's Fall semester Finance Seminar Series.

Location: SOM 210 (wheelchair accessible)

Contact Information

Thomas O'Brien
(413) 545-5581
tobrien@som.umass.edu