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2005 |
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Reality
Isn't Optional: The Role of Economic Education in Public
Policy |
December
5 |
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Russell Roberts, Professor of Economics at George Mason
University, gave a breakfast talk.
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Alan
Greenspan and My Term at the Fed |
November
30 |
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On November 30, 2005, the Weidenbaum Center cohosted
(with Washington University's Department of Economics)
an evening forum featuring Laurence Meyer, former member
of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
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Biotech
in St. Louis |
November
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On November 21, William Danforth, Chancellor Emeritus
of Washington University, gave a breakfast talk.
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The
Use and Abuse of Statistics |
November
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On November 8, Don Cox of Boston University gave a breakfast
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Challenges
to Public Education Financing Facing Missouri and the
Nation |
November
4 |
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The Weidenbaum Center cohosted a forum with the Federal
Reserve of St. Louis entitled "Challenges to Public
Education Financing Facing Missouri and the Nation."
This non-technical, full-day symposium included sessions
on public education funding formulas and the relationship
between funding and student achievement. There was considerable
discussion of these issues as they relate to Missouri
and of the current public education financing debate
occurring in the state. Participants included nationally
recognized scholars in the areas of school finance and
accountability as well as several public school superintendents
and Missouri state legislators. Proceedings from this
symposium are available below.
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Taxing
Temptation: Excise Taxes and Health Forum |
September
23 |
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This half-day symposium focused on the implications
for industry of excise taxes and individual welfare
and social policy. Participants included nationally
recognized scholars in the areas of excise taxes, regulated
industries, public health, and industry representatives.
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The
Supreme Court Nomination and Partisanship in Congress |
September
19 |
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On September 19, the Weidenbaum Center hosted a breakfast
talk. The speaker was Jill Zuckman, National Correspondent
of The Chicago Tribune.
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2005
Annual Dinner |
May
10 |
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Fred Barnes, Executive Editor of The Weekly Standard,
will be the dinner speaker at the Weidenbaum Center's
Annual Dinner.
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Future
of Health Care |
April
26 |
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On April 26, William Peck, Director of Washington University's
Center for Health Policy, gave a breakfast talk.
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Polarization,
Tolerance, and the State of American Public Opinion |
March
28 |
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Morris Fiorina, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University,
gave a presentation on the possible culture wars revealed
by the 2000 presidential election America with a follow-up
by James Gibson, the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government
at Washington University
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The Politics of Judicial Nomination |
March 15 |
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Sarah Binder, Professor of Political Science at George
Washington University, gave a breakfast talk.
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The
Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America
— Evening Forum Program |
February
14 |
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Philip K. Howard, a senior corporate advisor and strategist
at Covington & Burling, gave an evening presentation
for this Weidenbaum Center Forum.
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Election
Reform |
February
8 |
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Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor of Political Science
at MIT, gave a breakfast talk.
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Staffing the Bush Presidency: Second Term Challenges
and Opportunities |
January 19 |
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A breakfast talk was given by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, Visiting
Fellow at the Center. She is also a non-resident Senior
Fellow at The Brookings Institution and an Associate
Director with the Washington Semester Program at the
University of Pennsylvania.
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