Prospects for the World Economy

Professor Cooper will combine future global population projections with guesstimates about future productivity growth to speculate about the future income and production and some of their consequences for the world economy over the next few decades.

Richard NCooper is Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Executive Panel of the U.S. Chief of Naval Operationsand the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity.

 

He has served on several occasions in the U.S. Government, as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1995-97)Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1977-81), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs (1965-66), and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers (1961 -63) He was also Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1990-92), and Vice-Chairman of the Global Development Network (2001 -2007). As a Marshall Scholar, he studied at the London School of Economics and earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University. His most recent books include Boom, Crisis and Adjustment (with others), Macroeconomic Management in Korea (1970-1990) (with others), Environment Policies and Resource Policies for the World Economy, and What the Future Holds (with others).

 

Date:      Thursday, January 14, 2016
Time:      6:30 p.m.
Place:      The Colony Pavilion, 155 Hammon Avenue, Palm Beach 
Organizer:      Audrey Colflesh (awcolflesh@gmail.com)
Cost:      $85.00

 

 

Reservations are required.  Fee includes three course dinner and valet parking.  Cash bar.
 

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