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Announcement


Lester Thurow

The Singapore-MIT Alliance and the MIT Industrial Liaison Program present:

Lester Thurow

Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson
Professor of Management & Economics
Dean Emeritus Coordinator,
Asia-Pacific Initiatives
Sloan School of Management

Ingredients for Global Economic Recovery and Implications for the Asia/Pacific Region

with introductions by
Dean Thomas Magnanti, School of Engineering MIT, Cambridge
and Dr. Cham Tao Soon, President of NTU, Singapore

The seminar will be delivered live from MIT to NTU & NUS in Singapore

MIT

Wednesday, February 20, 2002
7:45 - 8:10 pm (Refreshments)
8:30 - 9:45 pm (Lecture)
MIT Building 3, Room 370
RSVP by February 13, 2002

SINGAPORE

Thursday, February 21, 2002
9:30 - 10:45am (Lecture)

NTU Location:
SMART Classroom and LT 19 North Spine
50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798

NUS Location:
MD 11, CRC Auditorium, Faculty of Medicine
10 Medical Drive, Singapore 117597

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
Seating at MIT is limited and allocated to earliest registrants

MIT Contact:
Fiona Tai-Farzan
Telephone: 617-258-6718
Email: smaseminar@ilp.mit.edu

NUS Contact:
Pearl Yap
Telephone: 790-4899
Email: ABKYap@ntu.edu.sg

NTU Contact:
Mervin Cohen
Telephone: 874-4878
Email: ecsmc@nus.edu.sg

Abstract

How does one understand and cope with the current economic downturn? What are the options? Economic downturns are never positive events, but they can be made into less negative events. How does globalization and the third industrial revolution later the current recession and make it less like the nine American recessions that have proceeded it since World War II? What are the ingredients necessary to start a recovery?

Biography

Lester Thurow has been a professor of management and economics at MIT for more than 30 years, beginning in 1968. He was dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1987 until 1993.

A 1960 graduate of Williams College, Thurow received his M.A. in 1962 on a Rhodes Scholarship at Balliol College (Oxford) and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1964. He taught at Harvard from 1966 to 1968 after a term as a staff economist on President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers.

In his formal academic work, he focuses on international economics, public finance, macroeconomics and income distribution economics. In addition, he writes for the general public in a number of American and international newspapers. He has been featured twice on "60 Minutes" and has been on the cover of Atlantic magazine.

A prolific writer, Thurow is the author of several books, three of them New York Times best sellers, aimed at a general audience.

His 1980 book, The Zero-Sum Society , looked at the difficulties democratic societies face when losses must be allocated to restore economic progress. Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America , 1992, looked at the nature of the global economic competition. It was on the New York Times best seller list for more than six months. His 1996 book, The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow's World , looked at forces changing the structure of the world economy.

His latest book, Building Wealth: The New Rules for Individuals, Companies, and Nations in a Knowledge-Based Economy , analyzes how a knowledge-based economy works and what it takes to generate wealth in the environment.

An avid outdoorsman, Thurow's most recent adventures range from a safari across Saudi Arabia to hunting polar bears with a camera in the Arctic to mountain climbing in South America and the Himalayas.

In the past, Dr. Thurow has served on the Editorial Board of the New York Times, as a contributing editor for Newsweek, and as a member of Time magazine's Board of Economists.

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served as vice president of the American Economics Association in 1993.

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