Mankiw and Zinn Wrap Up MSE Symposium
The 2004 Milton S. Eisenhower
Symposium concludes its lecture series on American
politics with visits today, Dec. 6, by Bush administration
economist Gregory Mankiw, and on Wednesday, Dec. 8, by
historian Howard Zinn. Their 45-minute lectures will begin
at 8 p.m. in Homewood's Shriver Hall Auditorium and will be
followed by question-and-answer periods in the building's
Clipper Room.
Mankiw's lecture is titled "The Economic Agenda."
Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003 as chairman
of the Council of Economic Advisors, Mankiw is a professor
of economics at Harvard and the author of Macroeconomics
and Principles of Economics, textbooks that have sold more
than a million copies and been translated into 17
languages. He is also a researcher for the National Bureau
of Economic Research and an adviser to the Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston and the Congressional Budget Office.
Zinn's lecture is titled "Reinventing Peace: Making It
a Reality After 9/11." An acclaimed social critic,
historian and well-known activist who has been at the
forefront of the civil rights and anti-war movements, Zinn
is widely known for his revolutionary work A People's
History of the United States: 1492-Present, which explains
history from the perspective of the powerless and
disenfranchised. Zinn grew up in immigrant slums in
Brooklyn, N.Y., served in World War II and went on to teach
at Spelman College, a historically black college, and then
at Boston University, where he is a professor emeritus of
political science.
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