The 88th International Atlantic Economic Conference held in Miami, 17-20 October 2019 brought together economists and finance experts from all around the world to discuss the changing economic landscape of the past, present and future. This year’s conference featured a lineup of speakers, including Professor William W. Beach, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor who delivered the 2019 William S. Vickrey Distinguished Address, Professor Cecilia E. Rouse who delivered the 2019 Presidential Address and the “Modern Monetary Theory: A Deconstructivist Approach” Plenary Panel comprised of Mark Skousen, Gordon Brady, and Patrick Newman. If you attended the conference or you are curious about what you missed follow the links below to view the web program and photos taken throughout the conference. Special thanks to all who attended!
Highlights Included:
William W. Beach, 2019 William S. Vickrey Distinguished Address:
“Productivity in the Global Value Chain World”
William W. Beach is the 15th Commissioner of Labor Statistics. Before joining BLS, Dr. Beach was vice president for policy research at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University from 2016 to 2019. Other previous positions include Chief Economist, Senate Budget Committee, Republican Staff, from 2013 through early 2016, Lazof Family Fellow in Economics at the Heritage Foundation, and founder and director of the Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis. Prior to joining Heritage in 1995, Dr. Beach served as a senior economist in the headquarters of Sprint United, Inc. in Kansas City and president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason. His Ph.D. in Economics is from Buckingham University in the U.K., where he is a Visiting Fellow in Economics. He is an expert in labor econometric models, tax laws and the national economy.
Cecilia E. Rouse, 2019 Presidential Address:
“The Impact of Financial Aid Incentives on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Two Experiments”
Cecilia Elena Rouse is the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Katzman-Ernst Professor in Economics and Education and professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University. She is also a national member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Senior Editor of the Future of Children, a policy journal. A labor economist with a focus on the economics of education, she is the founding director of the Princeton Education Research Section and a member of the National Academy of Education. From 2009 to 2011, she served as a member of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, a three-member panel that provided the president with analysis and advice on a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues. She worked at the National Economic Council in the Clinton administration as a Special Assistant to the President from 1998 to 1999.
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Plenary Panel: “Modern Monetary Theory: A Deconstructivist Approach”
Chair and Organizer: Gordon L. Brady, Florida Southern College and High Point University—U.S.A. View Introduction Slides
Mark Skousen, Chapman University—U.S.A., Pouring Wine Into Old Bottles: Can Modern Monetary Theory Work? View Presentation
Mark Skousen is a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University in California. He was recently named one of the top 20 living economists in the world. He was previously an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency and is past President of the Foundation for Economic Education. In 2004-05, he taught economics and finance at Columbia University. His recent books include, The Structure of Production, Economic Logic, The Making of Modern Economics, EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World, and The Maxims of Wall Street.
Gordon L. Brady, Florida Southern College and High Point University—U.S.A., Modern Monetary Theory: Spending Does Not Have to be “Paid For” With Tax Incentives, Now or in the Future View Presentation
Gordon Brady is currently Visiting Professor, High Point University and Senior Research Fellow, Florida Southern College. Previous positions include Senior Economist, U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Senate and Senior Advisor, Environmental Economics, Department of State. He has over 80 publications and co-authored several books, Government Failure: A Primer on Public Choice; On the Trail of Homo Economicus; Essays by Gordon Tullock; and Formal Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice: The Unpublished Works of Duncan Black.
Patrick Newman, Florida Southern College—U.S.A., Modern Monetary Theory: An Austrian Interpretation of Recrudescent Keynesianism View Presentation
Patrick Newman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Florida Southern College and a Center for Free Enterprise Fellow. Dr. Newman completed his Ph.D in economics. at George Mason University and is an associate scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. His primary research interests include Austrian economics, monetary theory, and late 19th and early 20th century American economic history.
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2019 Best Undergraduate Paper Competition Winner and Finalists:
Winner:
Maksim Papenkov, State University of New York-Albany—U.S.A., An Empirical Asset-Pricing Model: Accounting for Sector Heterogeneity of Risk View Presentation
Finalists:
Justin Katz, Yale University—U.S.A., State Subsidies and the Spatial Allocation of Production: Evidence from the U.S. Manufacturing Industry View Presentation
Jiaxuan Lu, University of Southern California—U.S.A., Demographic Distributional Effect of High-Speed Railway: Evidence from Taiwan View Presentation
David Wigglesworth, University of Pennsylvania—U.S.A., Crop Production and Climate Change: The Importance of Temperature Variability View Presentation