Austan Goolsbee: Jobs, Politics, and America's Future

Employment, economic performance, and financial stability are complex issues that occupy the forefront of political debate. Former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, longtime contributor to the New York Times and Slate, frequent guest on The Daily Show, and currently the Robert P. Gwinn professor of economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, Austan Goolsbee is not only one of our leading economists, but a gifted and entertaining interpreter of the esoteric field for the popular culture. Join him and former Chicago Tribune editor and current The Daily Beast/Newsweek editor-at-large, James Warren, for an examination of jobs, politics, and America's future

This program is presented as part of the annual Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago.

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