Murray L. Weidenbaum, Ph.D., the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor and honorary chairman of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, will speak on his memoir at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 in the Bryan Cave Moot Court Room of Anheuser-Busch Hall.
Weidenbaum’s memoir, Advising Reagan: Making Economic Policy, 1981-82, covers his time as the first chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers for President Ronald Reagan.
Weidenbaum has been a faculty member in the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences since 1964. While serving Reagan, Weidenbaum was instrumental in crafting the administration’s economic policy and was an important public voice for the administration on economic and financial issues.
From 1982-89, Weidenbaum was a member of the President’s Economic Policy Advisory Board. Earlier, he was the first assistant secretary of the treasury for economic policy in the Nixon administration.
Weidenbaum has served as fiscal economist in the U.S. Bureau of the Budget and as the corporate economist for Boeing. He serves on several advisory boards and boards of directors.
He is the author of eight books, including The Bamboo Network and Small Wars, Big Defense.
Additional support for this program is provided by the St. Louis Business Journal and Piper Jaffray.
A reception will follow the talk, and copies of the memoir will be available for purchase and signing.
Admission is free, but those who wish to attend should respond via the recorded RSVP line, 935-8003.
For more information, call 935-5418.