{"id":11231,"date":"2012-10-26T15:36:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T01:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=11231"},"modified":"2021-02-08T13:53:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:53:53","slug":"renowned-economist-tackles-presidential-election-and-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/10\/26\/renowned-economist-tackles-presidential-election-and-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned economist tackles presidential election and economy"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Renowned economist Christina D. Romer (photo courtesy of Â鶹´«Ã½M\u0101noa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christina D. Romer—former first chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, a New York Times<\/em><\/a> columnist and professor at UC<\/abbr> Berkeley<\/a>—has been named the 2012 Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals. She will give a free public presentation on Tuesday, October 30, 7 p.m. at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa’s Orvis Auditorium.<\/p>\n

Fundamental economic questions have dominated the presidential election and as a prominent economist, Romer will shed light on policy choices that the winner of the presidential election will face, and offer her own evidence-based recommendations to rebuild the American economy.<\/p>\n

Romer is an expert on macroeconomic volatility and the causes of the Great Depression. The recipient of numerous awards, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n

Doors to the October 30 presentation at Orvis Auditorium will open at 6:30 p.m. for the 7 p.m. event. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. On-campus parking is available for $6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christina D. Romer, 2012 Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair, give free talk economic issues and the presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-11231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11231"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135126,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions\/135126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}