EVENT – How We Lost Faith in the American Dream — and How to Get It Back

with Lee E. Ohanian, Professor of Economics, UCLA, and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Monday, October 19
Lecture 5-6pm
UW–Madison Pyle Center, AT&T Lounge
702 Langdon St, Madison WI 53606


This event is presented by the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy (CROWE) and the Department of Economics, UW—Madison.

In this talk, Ohanian will explore why confidence in capitalism has weakened, why socialist ideas have found a new audience, and how policies affecting housing, regulation, growth, and opportunity shape the lives of ordinary Americans. Drawing on lessons from California and across the country, Ohanian will talk about

  • What went wrong?
  • Why has confidence in capitalism weakened?
  • Can the American Dream be restored?
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More about Lee E. Ohanian

Lee E. Ohanian is professor of economics, and director of the Ettinger Family Program in macroeconomic research at UCLA, where he has taught since 1999. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the associate director of the Center for the Advanced Study in Economic Efficiency at Arizona State University. He is an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and previously has advised other Federal Reserve Banks, Foreign Central Banks, and the National Science Foundation. He has been an economic adviser to state and national political campaigns and has testified to the U.S. Senate and the California State Legislative Assembly. His research, which recently has been discussed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and other media sources, focuses on economic crises, and as been published widely in a number of peer-reviewed journals. He is a frequent columnist for the Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and other media. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester.