U.S. Economic Policy in the Obama Administration
Monday, December 8, 2008, 4.30 P.M.
American Center, Trľiątě 13, Prague 1
Invited speakers:
Geoffrey Carliner
Geoffrey Carliner served as senior staff economist and staff director of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Carter and Reagan Administrations. He has been executive director of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has taught economics at several American universities. He is currently visiting the Institute of Economic Studies at Charles University as a Fulbright fellow.
Vladimír Dlouhý
Vladimir Dlouhy served from 1989 to 1997 as a Czechoslovak Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and later as a Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic. Since 1997 he has been International Advisor of ABB and Goldman Sachs for Central and Eastern Europe. He also teaches macroeconomics at Charles University in Prague.
The program will be held in English.