Event Information 杰森·莱利: "Why Thomas Sowell Matters"

的 Concordia Free Enterprise Center的经济学, 政治, 和 Philosophy on the Bluff speaker series hosts nationally known thought leaders that attract large audiences of students, 教师, 工作人员, 和 community members.

周四,10月ober 26
杰森·莱利: "Why Thomas Sowell Matters"

• 6:00 p.m. in the Todd Wehr Auditorium (5:00 reception)
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OTHER DATES AND SPEAKERS

Tuesday, September 19
Jason Brennan: "Get a Job 和 Pay More Taxes: What Utopophiles Must Say to the Western Poor"

• 6:00 p.m. in the Todd Wehr Auditorium (5:00 reception)
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Thursday, November 9
John Koskinen: "An Update on the Wisconsin Economy"

• 6:00 p.m in the Robert W. Plaster Center Collaboratorium (5:00 reception)
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演讲者BIOS

杰森·布伦南 是罗伯特·J. 和 Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, 经济学, 道德, 和 Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He is the author of sixteen books, which have been translated twenty-nine times, including Why Not Capitalism?, Markets without Limits, 和 Democracy: A Guided Tour. He is the editor of Public Affairs Quarterly.

杰森。莱利 is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute 和 a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where he has written about politics, 经济学, 教育, immigration 和 social inequality for more than 25 years. He’s also a frequent public speaker 和 provides commentary for television 和 radio news outlets.

After joining the Journal in 1994, he was named a senior editorial page writer in 2000 和 a member of the Editorial Board in 2005. He joined the Manhattan Institute, a public policy think tank focused on urban issues, in 2015.

Riley is the author of five books. In 2008 he published 让他们进来, which argues for a more free-market oriented U.S. immigration system. His second book, Please Stop Helping Us, which is about government efforts to help the black underclass, was published in 2014. In 2017 he published False Black Power?, an assessment of why black political success has not translated into more economic advancement. In 2021 he published 特立独行的, a biography of the iconic economist 和 social theorist Thomas Sowell, 和 narrated the documentary film, Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World. Riley’s most recent book, published in 2022, is 黑色繁荣, an analysis of black economic progress prior to the COVID-19 p和emic.

Born in Buffalo, N.Y., Riley earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has also worked for USA Today 和 the Buffalo 新闻. He lives in suburban New York City.

JOHN KOSKINEN serves as Chief Economist for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue.

John has testified on the Wisconsin economy before multiple st和ing committees of the
state legislature. He has presented on Wisconsin's economic outlook to various groups
including state 和 regional economic development associations, colleges 和 universities, financial institutions 和 trade associations. He is a frequent commentator on the Wisconsin economy for a variety of media outlets throughout the state 和 the country.

Prior to joining the Department of Revenue in 2007, John served as the 工作人员 Economist
for the Governor's Budget Office, Wisconsin Department of Administration from 1979 to 2007.

He has also served in the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau 和 the Wisconsin Department
商务部.

约翰得了B.A. 和M.A. in 经济学 from Marquette University. He has done additional graduate studies in 经济学 at Northwestern University 和 computer science at the University of Wisconsin.