Bradley Lecture to Focus on U.S. Fiscal Policy
James Poterba, Mitsui Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)., will discuss “U.S. Fiscal Policy: Short-Term and Long-Term Challenges” at the Bradley Distinguished Lecture Series on Wednesday, November 11th, 12 noon – 1:30 p.m., at the Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee.
Poterba will place the current fiscal situation and the long-term outlook in both historical and international context, and discuss the range of policy options that are available to bring long-term expenditures and revenues into closer balance.
Poterba is an expert in government tax and expenditure programs and their impact on the economy. In 2005, he served on the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, which considered ways to make the U.S. tax system fairer, simpler, and more efficient. In addition being on the faculty at MIT, he heads the NBER, the nation’s leading non-profit, non-partisan organization devoted to economic research.
The Bradley Series is sponsored by UWM’s Lubar School of Business and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
For more information, please visit
www.lubarevents.uwm.edu or call (414) 229-3835. The $40 registration fee includes lunch.
