High Cotton Restaurant
199 East Bay St.
Charleston, SC 29401
(843) 724-3815
This event is made possible by the generosity of Daniel Sullivan '69.
Hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be served.
Please join us for a discussion of Keynes, The Stock Market and the Liberal Arts with Professor Geoffrey Woglom that will illustrate a pedagogical strategy he uses to get today's students to closely read a difficult but important text. The passage he will discuss from Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money illustrates Keynes' prescient views on the stock market's role in helping or hindering the efficient allocation of capital.
Professor Woglom received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yale University. He has taught at Amherst since 1978. His courses and his scholarly work reflect the underlying belief that the most important questions that economists study relate to the role of markets: when they work well and when they fail. He is the author of dozens of articles as well as the book Modern Macroeconomics, published by Scott Foresman in 1988. In addition to his interest in macroeconomics, Professor Woglom has also become interested in higher education finance, particularly among the top liberal arts colleges.
Questions? Please contact Liza Katz at lkatz@amherst.edu or (413) 542-8235.