Thomas Palley on ““Globalization and Outsourcing: What is Going on and How Should We Respond?”
Date: February 22, 2007

Dr. Palley is the Director of Economics for Democratic and Open Societies Project. He was formerly the Chief Economist with the US–China Economic and Security Review Commission and the Director of the Globalization Reform Project at the Open Society Institute.

Eduardo Porter on “Importing Workers: Illegal Immigration and the Policy Response in the United States”
Date: November 29, 2006

Eduardo Porter is an economics reporter for the New York Times, presently based in New York City. Previously, Mr. Porter was a senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal, based in Los Angeles. In addition to these publications, since beginning his journalism career in 1990, Mr. Porter has reported from Tokyo, London and Sao Paulo. He has held positions at Notimex (the Mexican news agency) and América Economía (a Latin American business and economics magazine). In addition, he has written for The Economist Intelligence Unit, Mexico's Reforma and Argentina's Página 12.

L. Randall Wray on "Those 'D' Words: Deficits, Debt, Deflation, and Depreciation," and Philip Arestis on "Does Financial Structure Matter?"
Date: April 22, 2004
L. Randall Wray is Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Senior Scholar at the Levy Economic Institute. Philip Arestis is the Director of Research at Cambridge Center for Economic and Public Policy, Cambridge University, UK, and Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute.

Lecture: James Orr on "Economic and Fiscal Impact of the WTC Attack"
Date: November 14, 2002
James Orr is an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Conference: "The Economic Outlook for Small Business in Mid-Hudson Valley 2001"
Date : September 14, 2001
This conference is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Lecture: Darren Bush on "Antitrust and E-commerce"
Date: April 2, 2001
Darren Bush is a trial attorney at the Antitrust Division of the Transportation, Energy and Agriculture section of the U.S. Department of Justice. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and a J.D., both from the University of Utah. He has published a number of articles on law and economics issues.

Lecture: Edward N. Wolff on "The Stagnating Fortunes of the Middle Class"
Date: November 9, 2000
Edward N. Wolff is a well-known scholar and Professor of Economics at the New York University. Professor Wolff's principal research areas are on productivity growth and the distribution of income and wealth. He has been the managing editor of the Review of Income and Wealth, and is in the boards of several other scholarly journals.

Conference: "The Economic Outlook of Mid-Hudson Valley 2000"
Date : June 9, 2000
This conference is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Lecture: Richard Ericson on "Economic Transition in Russia"
Date: November 1992
Richard Ericson is the Director of Harriman Institute at Columbia University. He is a former Fulbright-Hays Research fellow, Central Economic-Mathematical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Lecture: Steven Gold on "Reforming the State and Local Governments Relation: The Agenda for the 90s"
Date: April 29, 1991
Dr. Steven Gold is the Director of Nelson Rockefeller Institute of Government.

Lecture: William Vickery on "The Federal Deficit, Truth or Fiction"
Date: November 5, 1990
William Vickery is Professor of Economics at Columbia University and President-elect of the American Economic Association; former Director of National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Economics Noble Laureate in 1996.