All lectures will require free tickets.
All lectures are held in the Rhinehart Music Center
Tickets must be picked up in person at the Marilyn and Jim Larson Ticket Office in the Gates Athletics Center between 12:30 and 6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Tickets will be available three weeks prior to each lecture.
Tickets can also be obtained in person at the Schatzlein Box Office in the lobby of the Rhinehart Music Center, one hour before each lecture, if available.
William Dunkelberg
“Unemployment - How Can We Fix It?”
Please note: The Isadore Rosenfeld Lecture scheduled for October 27, 2011, has been canceled. Mark your calendar, and be sure to join us for the re-scheduled October lecture.
William Dunkelberg is a nationally known authority on small business, entrepreneurship, consumer behavior and consumer credit, and government policy. He was reported by the New York Times to be one of four final candidates for Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1981. He was the first recipient of the Small Business Administration's Research Advocate of the Year Award and the Abramson Scroll from the National Association for Business Economics in 2009.
Dunkelberg has presented expert testimony before the U.S. House and Senate on consumer credit, inflation, tax reform, the minimum wage, small business, electronic funds transfer systems, energy efficiency standards, health care and monetary and fiscal policy. He has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, MSNBC, the ABC, CBS and NBC Evening News programs, Good Morning America, and numerous local news and business TV and radio shows. He is frequently quoted in major news publications including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, Time, and Newsweek and serves on the economic forecasting panels for USA Today, Business Week and Bloomberg and as an economic consultant to ABC News. He has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles and writes a monthly small business economic report for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB.com/research).
Dunkelberg is Professor of Economics at Temple University, where he served as Dean of the School of Business and Management and as Director of the Center for the Advancement and Study of Entrepreneurship. He currently serves as Chief Economist for the National Federation of Independent Business, and as Economic Strategist, Boenning & Scattergood. His prior appointments were at the Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University, the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University and the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. .