Brad DeLong - Brad DeLong is a professor in the Department of Economics at U.C. Berkeley; chair of the Berkeley International and Area Studies Political Economy major; a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. From 1993 to 1995 he worked for the U.S. Treasury as a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy.
Robert Hormats - Robert D. Hormats is vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a managing director of Goldman Sachs & Co. Hormats has served as US assistant secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, ambassador and deputy US Trade Representative, and senior deputy assistant secretary for Economic and Business Affairs at the US Department of State.
He was a senior staff member on the National Security Council and senior economic advisor to National Security Advisors Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Hormats has received the French Legion of Honor and Arthur Fleming Award.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Visitors of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Dean's Council of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Julie Kosterlitz - Julie Kosterlitz is Staff Correspondent for the National Journal.
Larry Kudlow - Larry Kudlow is host of CNBC's Kudlow and Company.
Bernard Schwartz - Bernard Schwartz is Chairman and CEO of BLS Investments, LLC and retired Chairman and CEO of Loral Space and Communications.
Robert J. Shapiro - Dr. Robert J. Shapiro is Chairman of Sonecon, LLC and former Under Secretary of Commerce.
Robert Solow - Robert Solow is the Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT and a Nobel Prize Winner.
Is the Sky Falling? Challenging the Conventional Economic Wisdom, a panel discussion presented by The New School and the Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA).
New School president Bob Kerrey and a group of prominent economists, business leaders, and policy shapers examine the conventional wisdom and discuss policies to enhance America's economic prospects.
Participants include Brad DeLong, Robert Hormats, Larry Kudlow, Julie Kosterlitz, Bernard Schwartz, Dr. Robert J. Shapiro and Robert Solow.