Economic crisis topic of panel discussion March 23
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12:04 p.m., March 4, 2009----The University of Delaware Department of Economics will present a panel discussion titled “The Economic Crisis: What's Next?” at 7 p.m., Monday, March 23, in Room 115 Purnell Hall.

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The panel discussion originally was scheduled March 2 but was postponed because of the snowstorm.

"We are in the middle of an almost unprecedented economic crisis, with a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety about what will happen next and what we ought to be doing in terms of policy,” said Saul D. Hoffman, professor and chairperson of the Department of Economics. “The panel of economics faculty will give us their best prescription of how to cure this patient and keep it healthy."

Panelists will be James Butkiewicz, professor of economics and associate chairperson of the Department of Economics; Jeffrey Miller, professor of economics; William Poole, Distinguished Scholar in Residence and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; and Laurence Seidman, Chaplin Tyler Professor of Economics.

Butkiewicz has a specialty in monetary economics and macroeconomics. He teaches a popular course on the Great Depression and is regularly quoted in newspapers and on radio.

Miller has a specialty is macroeconomics, as well as on the transition economics of Eastern Europe. He teaches a senior seminar on current macroeconomic policy.

Poole joined UD's Lerner College of Business and Economics in September, 2008, after finishing a term as president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, where he was an influential policy maker on the Federal Open Market Committee. Before that, Poolel was a long-time professor at Brown University.

Seidman specializes in macroeconomics and public finance. In addition to his teaching and research activities, he is a regular contributor of newspaper opinion pieces and served as an economic adviser to the campaign of Barack Obama.

The panel discussion is free and open to the public.

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