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The Role of Economics and Economists in Public Policy and Public Debate

This conference examined how economists engage with different groups of people. Topics included sessions on how they influence public policy and public opinion, teaching approaches, evidence-based policy-making, the debate over the causes and consequences of inequality and an analysis of the responses to the experts panels that are run by the Initiative on Global Markets.

Attendance was by invitation only.

Program

Thursday, April 28, 2022

 
 12:00–1:00pm

Opening Lunch

 1:00–2:00pm

Keynote Address

(Princeton University)
Introduction: Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

 
 2:15–3:30pm

Trust in Experts, Commonality and Differences: Policy Views of European and US Economists

(Einaudi Institute)
Michael Weber (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

Moderator: (University of Bristol)

 
 4:00–5:15pm

Differences in Public and Expert Opinions About Environmental Policy

(Yale University)
(Stanford University)

Moderator: (Oxford University)

 
 5:30–6:30pm

Conveying Conventional Wisdom in the Classroom – panel

(University College London)
(City University of New York)

Moderator: Austan Goolsbee (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

 
 7pm

Dinner

 
 

Friday, April 29, 2022

 

 
 8:30–9:30am

Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses to Inequality

(MIT)
(Yale University)

Moderator: Steven Kaplan (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

 
 9:45–10:45am

The Role of Economists in Evidence-based Policymaking – panel

(Paris School of Economics)
Richard Thaler (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

Moderator: Christian Leuz (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

 
 11:00–12:00pm

The Challenges for the Media in Covering COVID, Monetary Policy, and the Labor Market

(Financial Times)
(Axios)
(Washington Post)

Moderator: (IGM, VoxEU/CEPR, Economics Observatory)

 
 12:00pm Lunch

Date & Location

The conference will take place on April 28th and 29th, 2022.

The conference will take place at the Gleacher Center ()

Organizers

Anil K Kashyap, Stevens Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Finance (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

Christian Leuz, Joseph Sondheimer Professor of International Economics, Finance, and Accounting (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

, Writer & Media Consultant (Vox)

 

For questions or additional information, contact Peggy Eppink.