Advising Reagan: An Evening with Dr. Murray Weidenbaum

On Wednesday, November 2, at 7:00 p.m., University Libraries and St. Louis County Library will host a talk by Professor Murray Weidenbaum who will speak about his new memoir, "Advising Reagan: Making Economic Policy, 1981-82." The memoir covers Weidenbaum's time as the first chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers for President Ronald Reagan.

The event will take place in the Moot Courtroom on Level 1 of Anheuser Busch Hall (the School of Law) located at Forsyth and Olympian Way. A reception will follow, and copies of the memoir will be available for purchase and signing. Admission is free; persons who wish to attend should respond via the recorded RSVP line: 314-935-8003. For more information call 314-935-5418.

Murray Weidenbaum is the Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor at Washington University, where he has been an economics faculty member since 1964. He is Honorary Chairman of the University's Weidenbaum Center, which he founded in 1975 as the Center for the Study of American Business and led until his retirement in 2000.

While serving as President Reagan's chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers 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 1982-1989, 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. He has served as Fiscal Economist in the U.S. Bureau of the Budget and as the Corporate Economist at the Boeing Company. Weidenbaum currently serves on several advisory boards and boards of directors. He is the author of eight books: The Bamboo Network was a finalist for global business book of 1996, and Small Wars, Big Defense was named outstanding economics book of 1992 by the Association of American Publishers.

Additional support for this program is provided by the St. Louis Business Journal and Piper Jaffray.

Date of announcement: 10/24/05