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On March 3, 2022, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), along with the Roosevelt Institute and the Columbia University Initiative for Policy Dialogue, convened three leading economists to look at some of the major issues relating to current inflation in the United States: What are the risks that elevated inflation will be an ongoing problem? What are the prospects for the living standards of the majority of Americans going forward? What is an appropriate macroeconomic policy response? Panelists: Dean Baker is Senior Economist at, and co-founder of, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and the author of the award-winning book Getting Prices Right: The Debate Over the Consumer Price Index. Jason Furman is Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at the Harvard
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On March 3, 2022, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), along with the Roosevelt Institute and the Columbia University Initiative for Policy Dialogue, convened three leading economists to look at some of the major issues relating to current inflation in the United States: What are the risks that elevated inflation will be an ongoing problem? What are the prospects for the living standards of the majority of Americans going forward? What is an appropriate macroeconomic policy response? Panelists: Dean Baker is Senior Economist at, and co-founder of, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and the author of the award-winning book Getting Prices Right: The Debate Over the Consumer Price Index. Jason Furman is Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at the Harvard
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| On March 3, 2022, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), along with the Roosevelt Institute and the Columbia University Initiative for Policy Dialogue, convened three leading economists to look at some of the major issues relating to current inflation in the United States: What are the risks that elevated inflation will be an ongoing problem? What are the prospects for the living standards of the majority of Americans going forward? What is an appropriate macroeconomic policy response? Panelists: Dean Baker is Senior Economist at, and co-founder of, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and the author of the award-winning book Getting Prices Right: The Debate Over the Consumer Price Index. Jason Furman is Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and was chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel laureate in economics, Professor at Columbia University, Chief Economist at the Roosevelt Institute, and a member of the advisory board of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Algernon Austin (Moderator) is the Director for Race and Economic Justice at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. |