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Corporate Response to Regulation: The Impact of Government Regulation on Business
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Environmental Regulation: Building a Low-Carbon Economy
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Financial Regulation: Preventing Another Crisis
October 12, 2010 The United States experienced one of the worst financial crises since the 1930s. Congress has taken on the charge of restructuring financial regulation in dramatic ways. Industry speakers will share their perspective on the current regulatory structure and discuss the future of financial regulation. Distinguished Guests: Chester Spatt - Pamela R & Kenneth B Dunn Professor of Finance, Carnegie Mellon University, and Former Chief Economist and Director of the Office of Economic Analysis in the U.S. SEC. Andrew Busch - Global Currency and Public Policy Strategist, BMO Capital Markets', Senior Fellow of the Illinois Policy Institute and American Action Forum Expert. Greg Ip, U.S. Economics Editor, The Economist Sponsored by: College of Business Finance Academy, College of Business, with financial support provided by State Farm Watch the lecture streaming online |
| Understanding Regulation: Doing Business in 2010
September 21, 2010 Government regulation is a complicated and mysterious process that affects the lives of Americans. Few people know what goes on in Washington as Congress, lobbyists and other groups fight fight over rules and legislation. Distinguished Guests: Cindy Skrzycki - Senior Lecturer in English, University of Pittsburgh, and author of The Regulators: The Anonymous Power Brokers Who Shapre Your Life. Susan Dudley - Director, Regulatory Studies Center and Research Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration and Former Adminstrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the U.S. OMB from April 2007-January 2009. Beth Milnikel - Director of the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship, Univeristy of Chicago, and author of Regulatory Field. Sponsored by: College of Business Undergraduate Honors Program, College of Business, with financial support provided by State Farm. Watch the lecture streaming online |
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Who Controls Your Health Care: a Debate on Free Markets vs. Government
March 9, 2010 Distinguished Guests: Michael Tanner - Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, and Steffie Woolhandler - Professor of Medicine at Harvard and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. Sponsored by : Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government and Center for Business and Public Policy Watch the debate streaming online |
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What to do about the World's Climate: Prospects for Action in the US and Abroad November 3, 2009 Hear from a panel of environmental experts discussing global warming, the prospects for an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and what policies each country can use to meet its commitment. Distinguished Guests: Charles Kolstad - Economics Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara Nathaniel Keohane - Director of Economic Policy and Analysis, Environmental Defense Fund Don Fullerton - Gutsgell Professor of Finance, Universitty of Illinois and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs Watch the lecture streaming online |
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Fiscal Wake Up Tour April 14, 2009 Building on the acclaim of the award winning documentary I.O.U.S.A., a group of distinguished panelists from Washington D.C. will discuss how today’s fiscal choices and rapidly growing national debt are directly impacting long-term US economic stability...will what’s left in your wallet be enough to fund your future, and will America mend its spendthrift ways? Distinguished Guests: Andrew G. Biggs - Resident Scholar, The American Enterprise Institute Diane Rogers - Chief Economist, The Concord Coalition David Certner - Director of Federal Affairs, AARP Watch the lecture streaming online |
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Charles P. Blahaus, III - Lecture October 15, 2008 Charles P. Blahous, deputy assistant to the president for economic policy and deputy director of the White House National Economic Council presented a lecture entitled “Supporting an Aging Society: The Flight from Responsibility." View a news release Watch the lecture streaming online |
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Peter R. Orszag - Lecture April 22, 2008 Health Care: Capturing the Opportunity in the Nation's Core Fiscal Challenge His four-year term began on January 18, 2007. Before joining CBO, Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. In previous government service, Orszag served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Senior Economic Adviser at the National Economic Council during 1997 and 1998. Earlier, he served as a staff economist and then Senior Adviser and Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Watch the lecture streaming online |
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