The director of the Congressional Budget Office and former chief economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, will speak on Monday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Hamilton's Chapel. The title of his remarks is "The Economic and Budget Outlook: Policies and Priorities." This event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Hamilton College's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.
Holtz-Eakin is the sixth director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), where he was appointed for a four-year term beginning February 2003. He also serves as CBO's representative on the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board.
Trustee Professor of Economics at Syracuse University's Maxwell School, Holtz-Eakin has served as chairman of the economics department and associate director of the Center for Policy Research. He also has served as editor of the National Tax Journal and the associate editor of the Journal of Human Resources.
In the past, he has held academic appointments at Columbia University and Princeton University. Since 1985, he has been a faculty research fellow and research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a member of the Economics Advisory Panel to the National Science Foundation.
Holtz-Eakin has a long-standing interest in the economics of public policy. He has studied the role of federal taxes in home ownership, the contribution of inventories to the business cycle, and a wide variety of topics in state and local government finance. Much of his research has centered on the economics of fundamental tax reform, productivity effects of public infrastructure, income mobility in the United States and the role of families, capital markets, health insurance and tax policy in the start-up and survival of entrepreneurial ventures.
The Levitt Center Speaker Series brings the experiences of policy analysts, policy makers and policy administrators to campus. "The U.S. Budget: Power, Politics and Priorities" is the 2004-2005 Speaker Series theme. The next speaker in this series will be Dinesh D'Souza, Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, who will appear on Wednesday, April 20, at 8 p.m. in the Hamilton Chapel.
D'Souza was senior domestic policy analyst at the White House during the Reagan Administration from 1987-1988 and is the author of numerous books.
