Central Texas Chapter of the World Future Society
Raising awareness of the future and its impact on Central Texas
Why are economists lost and conflicted over the economic meltdown?
The Central Texas Chapter of The World Futures Society presents "Why are economists lost and conflicted over the economic meltdown?
Speaker: Lewis J. Spellman
Professor of Finance and Interdisciplinary Professor of Law, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas
Professor Spellman is Professor of Finance and Interdisciplinary Professor of Law at the University of Texas where he has taught since l971. His degrees are BBA and MBA from the University of Michigan, and MA and PhD from Stanford University. He has also taught at UTs LBJ School of Public Affairs, Cal-Berkeley and Stanford University. His primary teaching is in financial markets and institutions at both the graduate and undergraduate level with an emphasis on interpreting and analyzing current market and policy developments and market trends.
His outside academic background includes government service where he served as Assistant to the Chairman of the President’s Counsel of Economic Advisers and was an Economist with the Federal Reserve Board. His published work primarily concerns the market pricing of financial institution claims.
Professor Spellman’s business interests include serving as a Director and Chairman of Investments, Magna Carta Insurance Company. Previously he served as Chairman and CEO of Real Rate Financial and Electronic Exchange Technologies. He holds several US Patents relating to financial instruments in an inflationary environment.
Presentation (mp3, 78.7mb, 1 hour 24minutes)
Discussion (mp3, 36.4 mb, 39minutes) Note: sound quality varies through out this discussion
Speaker: Lewis J. Spellman
Professor of Finance and Interdisciplinary Professor of Law, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas
Professor Spellman is Professor of Finance and Interdisciplinary Professor of Law at the University of Texas where he has taught since l971. His degrees are BBA and MBA from the University of Michigan, and MA and PhD from Stanford University. He has also taught at UTs LBJ School of Public Affairs, Cal-Berkeley and Stanford University. His primary teaching is in financial markets and institutions at both the graduate and undergraduate level with an emphasis on interpreting and analyzing current market and policy developments and market trends.
His outside academic background includes government service where he served as Assistant to the Chairman of the President’s Counsel of Economic Advisers and was an Economist with the Federal Reserve Board. His published work primarily concerns the market pricing of financial institution claims.
Professor Spellman’s business interests include serving as a Director and Chairman of Investments, Magna Carta Insurance Company. Previously he served as Chairman and CEO of Real Rate Financial and Electronic Exchange Technologies. He holds several US Patents relating to financial instruments in an inflationary environment.
Presentation (mp3, 78.7mb, 1 hour 24minutes)
Discussion (mp3, 36.4 mb, 39minutes) Note: sound quality varies through out this discussion
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Comment by Jon Roland on March 10, 2009 at 11:06am
- I have added a PDF file of the handout Spellman distributed at the meeting and referred to in his talk.spellman.pdf
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