Events
Past Events
Adelaide Aiken Lecture (see
flyer)“The
Ten Laws of Financial Planning for Women.”
The
ESA welcomed Adelaide Aitken, a Wellesley graduate of the class of 1967 and
a current partner at the Hamilton Group in Cambridge, MA. Ms. Aitken is a Certified
Financial Planner and shared with us tips on how to plan our financial futures.
She presented her Ten Laws of Financial Planning, including among other things,
starting to save early, using tax shelters, diversification and risk, insurance,
and issues specific to women and financial planning. A crowd of well over 100
people welcomed Ms. Aitken and many joined us for a dinner catered by Olive
Garden following the lecture.
Jobs/Internship Panel
Econ Alumnae, professors and current students spoke about jobs and internships
they've had and how they got them
Economics Tea (see
flyer)
The ESA and the Economics Department hosted the first Economics Tea on March
11th. This well-attended event allowed students and faculty to chat and enjoy
a late afternoon snack. We hope that this was the start of a new ESA tradition!
Brown Bag Lunch with Ferhan Salman
Salman, a visiting professor in the Economics Department, explained
to the lunchtime crowd the fundamentals of globalization. Atendees learned
about the advantages of globalization, the success and failure of previous
policies that have attempted to open world markets, and discussed
policy directions
for the
future.
Jeffrey Frankel Speaks at Wellesley College (see
flyer)
Jeffrey Frankel spoke in the Pendleton Atrium on Thursday, November 13th about
the the role reversal that has occurred in the Economic Policies of the Political
Parties. This well-attended lecture was followed by a dinner and reception
catered by Lemon Thai.
From his Short Biography on the Harvard
Kennedy School of Government Web page:
Jeffrey Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth.
He directs the National Bureau of Economic Research program in International
Finance and Macroeconomics, and is a member of the NBER Business Cycle Dating
Committee, which in 2001 officially declared the US recession. He came to Harvard
in 1999, from the Council of Economic Advisers, to which he was appointed by
President Clinton in 1996 and subsequently confirmed by the Senate. His
responsibilities as Member included international economics, macroeconomics,
and the environment.
Before moving east, he had been professor of economics at the University of
California, Berkeley, having joined the faculty in 1979. Past appointments
include the Brookings Institution, Federal Reserve Board, Institute for International
Economics, International Monetary Fund, University of Michigan, and Yale. Research
interests include international finance, monetary policy, regional blocs, Asia,
and global environmental issues. Recent books include American Economic Policy
in the 1990s (co-edited, MIT Press, 2002). Born in San Francisco in 1952, he
graduated from Swarthmore College in 1974, and received his PhD from MIT in
1978. He is married to Jessica Stern, a terrorism expert.
Visiting Economics Professor Rachel Bouvier discusses her research with students
Professor Bouvier presented her research topic, the Political Economy of Environmental
Economics to a lunch-time crowd on Thursday, October 16th. The brief presentation
was followed by a discussion allowing students to get to know the new professor.