UCSD Economics Roundtable
The UCSD Economics Roundtable is organized by the UCSD Department of Economics in coordination with UCSD Extended Studies and Public Programs. The purpose of the Roundtable is to provide top business professionals and community leaders in the San Diego region with the opportunity to share the views and opinions of renowned experts in the fields of economics, finance, business and public policy. Members of the Roundtable share insights with their counterparts in the business community and with members of the UCSD faculty, continuing an important UCSD partnership tradition between the academic and business communities.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2000
7:30 - 9:00 a.m. at the UCSD Faculty Club

Janet Yellen
UC Berkeley, Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Professor of International Business and Trade

Dr. Yellen left Washington this fall where she had served since 1994, first as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System and then as Chair of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors.  At the Fed, she earned the reputation of being the most approachable of the Governors.  "I don't want just to see the bottom line summary," she said.  "Why are we in the (monetary policy) business . . . to promote the well-being of American households, that's what it is all about."

Dr. Yellen is well known among policy-makers for her ability to think broadly and to explain economic analysis in clear forthright language. When she was appointed chair of the Council in 1997, Robert Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury, described her as "someone who could bring a rigorous analytical approach to the issues and could work well with others."
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2000
7:30 - 9:00 a.m. at the UCSD Faculty Club

"Stadium Subsidies: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why?"

Roger Noll
Stanford University

Sporting News one ranked Dr. Noll the 93rd most important person in sports, ahead of John Madden but behind Bob Costas. Please join us as Noll tackles the timely and sensitive issues of whether publicly funded stadiums are worth the cost? And do they really pay for themselves from a cost-benefit analysis point of view? Dr. Noll is the Morris M. Doyle Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Economics at Stanford University.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2000
7:30 - 9:00 a.m. at the UCSD Faculty Club

"Biotech Billions, Microchip Trillions: New Rules in a Knowledge-Based Economy"

Lester C. Thurow
Professor of Management and Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Thurow has been a professor at MIT for over 30 years, and served as Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1987 to 1993. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Thurow received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard from 1966 to 1968 after serving as staff economist on President Lyndon Johnson’s Council of Economic Advisors.

A prolific writer, Thurow addresses the factors driving economic change in the global economy that is fast emerging around us and changing how the economic game is played. He has authored several New York Times best sellers, including The Zero Sum Society, and most recently, Building Wealth: New Rules for Individual, Companies and Countries in a Knowledge-Based Economy. Dr. Thurow has served on the Editorial Board of the New York Times, as a contributing editor for Newsweek, and as a member of Time Magazine’s Board of Economists. He appears regularly on "The Nightly Business Report," has been featured on "60 Minutes."


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The UCSD Department of Economics gratefully acknowledges the 2000 UCSD Economics Steering Committee for their support:

Paul Drake, Dean of Social Sciences
University of California, San Diego

Alan N. Nevin, Chief Economist
Market Profiles

Rick F. Hall, President and CEO
La Jolla Bank

Grace Evans Cherashore, CEO
The Evans Hotels

Bill Nelson, Chairman of the Board
Scripps Bank

Jack White, Chairman
Jack White Division of Waterhouse Securities

Ross Starr, Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego

Mary Walshok, Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor
Extended Studies and Public Programs
University of California, San Diego