The Role of Economics and Economists in Public Policy and Public Debate 鈥� Clark Center

逗逼直播

NECESSARY COOKIES These cookies are essential to enable the services to provide the requested feature, such as remembering you have logged in.	ALWAYS ACTIVE
	Reject \| Accept
PERFORMANCE AND ANALYTIC COOKIES These cookies are used to collect information on how users interact with Chicago Booth websites allowing us to improve the user experience and optimize our site where needed based on these interactions. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
FUNCTIONAL COOKIES These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages or by us.
TARGETING OR ADVERTISING COOKIES These cookies collect information about your browsing habits to make advertising relevant to you and your interests. The cookies will remember the website you have visited, and this information is shared with other parties such as advertising technology service providers and advertisers.
SOCIAL MEDIA COOKIES These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or 鈥渓ike鈥� button on our websites, or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social media site. The social network will record that you have done this. This information may be linked to targeting/advertising activities.

We're enhancing our website soon and would love your input. Please share your thoughts! [ Give Feedback ]

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 28^th and 29^th, 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.