Bradley Lecture to Focus on Fiscal Stimulus Plan Milwaukee, March 9, 2009 – John B. Taylor, a professor of economics at Stanford University and a senior fellow with the Hoover Institution, will discuss “The Fiscal Stimulus Plan: Assessing its Potential Impact on the Economy” at the Bradley Distinguished Lecture Series on Thursday, March 12, 2009, 12 noon – 1:30 p.m., at the University Club in downtown Milwaukee.
The Bradley Series is sponsored by UWM’s Lubar School of Business and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
Taylor will take a pointed look at how government actions and interventions have caused, prolonged, and worsened our nation’s financial crisis, and suggest a set of principles to follow to prevent misguided actions and interventions in the future.
Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is widely known for his research on the foundations of modern monetary theory and policy, which has been applied by central banks and financial market analysts around the world. Taylor currently serves as a member of the California Governor's Council of Economic Advisors. In the past, he served as senior economist (1976-77) and member (1989-91) of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He was also a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers from 1995 to 2001, and Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs from 2001-05.
For more information, please visit
www.bradleyseries.uwm.edu or call (414) 229-3835. The $40 registration fee includes lunch.
