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Smith
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Steven
S. Smith
Director
Professor Steven S. Smith is the Director of the Weidenbaum
Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy and the Kate M. Gregg Professor of Social Sciences and Professor
of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis.
He has worked on Capitol Hill in several capacities and has
served as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He
has authored or edited nine books on U.S. congressional politics
and parliamentary politics in Russia, including a recent book,
Party Influence in Congress (Cambridge). His textbook
on congressional politics, The American Congress,
is in its fifth edition. He is working on books on party leadership
in the U.S. Senate and presidential-parliamentary relations
in Russia.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in
1980.
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Weidenbaum
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Murray
Weidenbaum
Honorary
Chairman
Professor Murray Weidenbaum is Honorary
Chairman of the Center and Mallinckrodt Distinguished University
Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his research
on economic policy, taxes, government spending, and regulation.
Weidenbaum created the Center for the Study of American Business
in 1975, served as its director during most of the 1975-2000
period, and retired from the directorship at the end of 2000,
when the Center was renamed the Weidenbaum Center. He has
been a faculty member at Washington University since 1964
and was the Chairman of the Economics Department from 1966
to 1969.
In 1981 and 1982, Professor Weidenbaum was President Reagan's
first chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. In that
capacity, he helped formulate the economic policy of the Reagan
administration and was a key spokesman for the administration
on economic and financial issues. During the years 1982-1989,
he was a member of the President's Economic Policy Advisory
Board.
Earlier, Professor Weidenbaum was the first Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Nixon administration.
He also served as Fiscal Economist in the U.S. Bureau of the
Budget and as the Corporate Economist at the Boeing Company.
He is a member of the boards of directors of Harbour Group,
Macroeconomic Advisers, and the Center for Strategic and International
Studies.
He is the author of eight books, the latest being the seventh
edition of Business and Government in the Global Marketplace.
His previous book, The Bamboo Network, was a finalist in the
1996 competition for global business book of the year. His
Small Wars, Big Defense was judged by the Association of American
Publishers to be the outstanding economics book of 1992. He
has written several hundred articles in publications ranging
from American Economic Review to the Wall Street Journal.
He is a Fellow of the National Association of Business Economists,
Honorary Fellow of the Association for Technical Communication,
and a past president of the Midwest Economic Association.
He is a member of advisory boards of the Center for Strategic
Tax Reform, the American Council for Capital Formation, the
American Enterprise Institute, and the Foreign Policy Research
Institute.
Professor Weidenbaum's international activities include serving
as Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of the Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development and lecturing at
universities and research institutes throughout Western Europe
and Asia. He received the National Order of Merit from France
in recognition of his contributions to foreign policy. In
1989 he was a member of a Presidential Mission to Poland.
In 1999-2000, he was chairman of the new Congressional Commission
to Review the Trade Deficit.
He received a B.B.A. from City College of New York, an M.A.
from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
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Rothstein
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Paul
Rothstein
Associate Director
Paul Rothstein,
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley
Professor Rothstein’s specialty is public sector economics,
and he has written in the areas of local public finance, taxation,
and public choice.
His previous work includes, "Learning the Preferences of Governments
and Voters from Proposed Spending and Aggregated Votes," Journal
of Public Economics (1994), "Models with an Uncongestible Public
Good and a Continuum of Consumers," Journal of Urban Economics (2000), and "Possibility, Impossibility and History in the
Origins of the Marriage Tax," National Tax Journal (2003),
the last two with Professor Marcus Berliant. Professor Rothstein
is currently interested in federalism, the benefits and costs
of competition among local governments, and the role of political
processes, legal institutions and central government in channeling
this competition. His current working papers develop theoretical
models of fiscal competition and federation formation and
empirical work on the political economy of urban mass transportation
and spending on homeland security.
He received a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley.
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Mahoney
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Richard
Mahoney
Distinguished Executive in Residence
Richard J. Mahoney is the Distinguished
Executive in Residence at the Weidenbaum Center at Washington
University in St. Louis.
Since coming to the Center in April 1995, Mr. Mahoney has
been responsible for creating the "CEO Series" and
contributing several essays to it, including: "The Anatomy
of a Public Policy Crisis," "Business Must Act for
All Its Stakeholders — Before 'The Feds' Do," "Trade
Winds or Head Winds?: U.S. Government Export Policy,"
"Insights from Business Strategy and Management 'Big
Ideas' of the Past Three Decades: Are They Fads or Enablers?"
and a collection of his essays that appeared in the Sunday
New York Times on current business issues.
Mahoney has been a prolific writer of op-ed articles. His
writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York
Times, Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Investor's
Business Daily. Directorship magazine recently published his
essay on "Missing in Action: The Healthcare Consumer."
He joined Monsanto Company in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1962
as a product development specialist. He subsequently held
various marketing, technical service, and new product development
positions in Plastic Products, Agriculture, and International
Operations. In 1977 he was named Executive Vice President.
He was elected to the Board in 1979 and elected President
in 1980. In 1983, Mahoney was named Chief Executive Officer.
He retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1995.
Mahoney is a former director of Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co. and Union Pacific Corporation, and is a trustee of the
Missouri Botanical Garden and Washington University in St.
Louis. He is affiliated with and serves on the boards of a
number of civic and charitable organizations.
Born January 30, 1934, in Springfield, Massachusetts, Mahoney
graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1955 with
a B.S. in chemistry. He holds honorary degrees from the University
of Massachusetts, the University of Missouri — St. Louis,
and Westminster College. He is also an honorary Fellow of
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Melinda
Warren
Director,
Weidenbaum Center Forum
Melinda
Warren has directed the Weidenbaum Center Forum at Washington
University in St. Louis since 2001. Previously, she was the
Associate Director of the Center for the Study of American
Business.
In addition
to her work as director of the Center’s major forum
programs, Ms. Warren manages the research programs of the
Weidenbaum Center, writes and monitors the budgets of the
Weidenbaum Center, the Center for New Institutional Social
Sciences, and the Center in Political Economy, and works with
corporate sponsors. Since 1988, Ms. Warren has authored or
coauthored an annual report on the costs and staffing of federal
regulatory agencies. In addition to her work on regulation,
she is the coeditor of two books: Environmental Protection:
Regulating for Results (Westview Press, 1991) and American
Manufacturing in a Global Economy (Kluwer Academic Press,
1990) and of other publications on public policy issues.
Ms. Warren
has a Bachelor of Science from Southwest Missouri State University
in Springfield, Missouri and a Master of Business Administration
from Washington University in St. Louis.
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Gloria
Lucy
Assistant
Director and Business Manager
Gloria Lucy
is Assistant Director and Business Manager for the Weidenbaum
Center at Washington University in St. Louis. She has served
at the Center and its predecessor organization, the Center
for the Study of American Business, in various capacities
for a number of years.
Mrs. Lucy manages government grants, individual donor relations
(Eliot Society), a variety of public policy meetings, human
resources, and other development and operational areas at
the Weidenbaum Center.
Mrs. Lucy has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
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Christine
Moseley
Administrative
Coordinator
Christine Moseley is Administrative Coordinator
for the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St.
Louis.
Ms. Moseley serves as assistant to Steven Smith, Murray Weidenbaum,
and Richard Mahoney. In addition, she is the accountant for
the Weidenbaum Center, the Center for New Institutional Social
Sciences, and the Center in Political Economy.
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