Speed Limit? What Speed Limit? Causes and Recovery Strategies for the Current International Economic Crisis
7:00 PM, Thursday, October 29, 2009 Hastings House, Walpole, NH
This will be a discussion concerning various viewpoints regarding the current global economic crisis (and its roots and prospects for the future). There will be a social time from 7:00 - 7:30 p.m. with refreshments. Starting at 7:30 each speaker will provide a brief synopsis of how they understand the current crisis. They will have an opportunity to question or challenge the views of one another and then the moderator will solicit questions and brief comments from the audience to enlarge the discussion.
Program leaders will include...
Jules LaRocque, Ph.D., moved to Keene, in his native New Hampshire,
after four decades of teaching economics at Lawrence University
(Wisconsin), the University of Wisconsin (Madison), and the University
of Iowa. During those decades, he taught international trade,
finance, and development; the history of economic thought, monetary theory and policy, and industrial organization and regulation. Since returning to NH, he has taught courses in the Cheshire Academy for Lifelong Learning (CALL) at Keene State College.
Armagan Gezici, Ph.D., professor of economics, Keene State College.
Gezici was awarded a degree in engineering in her native Turkey, after which she decided to pursue the study of economics. She earned a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2007. Since then, she has been on the faculty at Keene State where she teaches
courses based in micro-economics and international economics.
The WIADG is a dues paying membership group formed to present periodic and timely discussion on world issues led by knowledgeable experts.
Three to four programs are scheduled during the year. Recent speakers have included U.S. Ambassadors, an expert on disease epidemics, an expert on the Middle East oil situation, and experts on social/political cultures of Iraq,
Pakistan, China and Nepal. For further information, call Merv Stevens at 756-3534.
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