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AGENDA
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center
Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
| Noon | Registration and Lunch |
| 12:20 p.m. | Welcome |
| ROBERT HAHN, AEI-Brookings Joint Center | |
| Presentation | |
| TIM HARFORD, Financial Times | |
| Discussants | |
| TYLER COWEN, George Mason University | |
| SEBASTIAN MALLABY, The Washington Post | |
1:30 p.m. |
Adjournment |
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BIOGRAPHIES
Tim Harford writes the ‘Dear Economist’ column for the Financial Times, in which readers’ personal problems are solved, tongue-in-cheek, with the latest economic theories. Mr. Harford’s new book, The Undercover Economist, explains everyday economics from the price of a cup of coffee to the problem of traffic; he has recently started writing a second column for the Financial Times, also called ‘The Undercover Economist’. Mr. Harford taught economics at Oxford University, was a scenario expert for Shell, and most recently worked at the International Finance Corporation. His book about the aid industry, The Market for Aid, written with Michael Klein, was published in the summer.
Robert W. Hahn is co-founder and executive director of the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center and a resident scholar at AEI. Previously, he worked for the Council of Economic Advisers. He also has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Hahn frequently contributes to leading scholarly journals and general-interest periodicals, including the American Economic Review, Yale Law Journal, Science, and the New York Times. He is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective and In Defense of the Economic Analysis of Regulation. In addition, Dr. Hahn is co-founder of the Community Preparatory School––an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.
Tyler Cowen is the Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is Director of the Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. Professor Cowen is also the author of numerous books and articles, most recently Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures, and Markets and Cultural Voices: Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of the Mexican Amate Painters. Much of his writing is on the economics of culture and on the application of microeconomics. Professor Cowen writes a daily weblog, www.marginalrevolution.com, which has received more than three million unique visits. Sebastian Mallaby is a Washington Post columnist and a member of the paper’s editorial board. His interests include globalization, international development, and U.S. economic policy. He was a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his editorials on Darfur. Mallaby joined the Washington Post in 1999 after thirteen years with The Economist, where he worked in London, Africa, and Japan. Between 1997 and 1999, Mallaby was The Economist’s Washington bureau chief and wrote the magazine’s weekly Lexington column on American politics and foreign policy. Mallaby spent 2003 as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he wrote The World’s Banker, a history of the World Bank under James Wolfensohn. Mallaby has also contributed to numerous other publications, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Prospect, The National Interest, The New York Times, Policy Review, Slate and The New Republic.
