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Professor Bradley R. Schiller to Speak at Ivy Tech Community College
Professor Bradley R. Schiller of the University of Nevada, Reno, will be giving a lecture entitled The Great Recession of 2008-09 at Ivy Tech Community College – Northeast. The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on October 29, 2009 in the Auditorium on the College’s Coliseum Campus.
Lecture Brief:
The Great Recession of 2008-09 was a devastating experience. Political rhetoric notwithstanding, however, it never rivaled the Great Depression of the 1930’s in depth, duration, or devastation.
The federal government pulled all of its fiscal and monetary levers to end the Great Recession of 2008-2009. The monetary stimulus that began in September 2008 saved the day. Fiscal policy has been less successful, largely due to President Obama’s focus on longer-term structural issues like energy independence rather than short-term job creation. Now federal policy walks a tightrope strung between deficit restraint and continued spending stimulus. The short-run outlook is better than most people realize, but the long-run outlook may be worse than anticipated.
Professor Schiller has over four decades of experience teaching introductory economics at the University of Nevada, American University, the University of California (Berkeley and Santa Cruz), and the University of Maryland. Since receiving his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, Professor Schiller has not only taught economics, but has written, lectured, and consulted on a broad range of public policy issues, including significant experience in our nation’s capital. He has worked as a consultant on economic policy since the Nixon Administration, working in the halls of Congress, the White House, and corporate boardrooms. Schiller designed, implemented, and evaluated a score of anti-recession programs during the recessions of 1980, 1981-82, and 1990-91. His assessments of the economy and policy have appeared often in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, and other media outlets.
Few economists offer the breadth of historical, political, and theoretical perspective on the Great Recession of 2008/2009 as Brad Schiller. In 2008, Schiller retired from American University's School of Public Affairs in Washington DC and is now teaching at the University of Nevada focusing on their principles of economics curriculum. He has given guest lectures at more than 300 colleges ranging from Fresno, California, to Istanbul, Turkey. His studies of inequality, discrimination, tax reform, pensions, welfare, and Social Security have appeared in both professional journals and popular media. Dr. Schiller is also a frequent commentator on economic policy for television, radio, and newspapers.
Brad is also the author of three popular college texts, The Economy Today, Essentials of Economics, and The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination that have been used by over one million students around the world. He is the host of McGraw-Hill’s annual Teaching Economics conference in Reno, Nevada, and when he is not teaching, writing, or advising on economics, Professor Schiller is enjoying the tennis courts, ski slopes or crystal-blue waters of Lake Tahoe.
Ivy Tech Community College is the state’s largest public post-secondary institution and the nation’s largest singly-accredited statewide community college system with more than 130,000 students enrolled annually. Ivy Tech has campuses throughout Indiana. It serves as the state's engine of workforce development, offering affordable degree programs and training that are aligned with the needs of its community along with courses and programs that transfer to other colleges and universities in Indiana. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association.