Murray Weidenbaum TOPICS: Economics Business International Business Government/Politics FEE CATEGORY:* 15.0k to 20.0k TRAVELS FROM: Missouri Profile Request This Speaker

Murray Weidenbaum: Profile

Professor Murray Weidenbaum is Honorary Chairman of the Center and Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor at Washington University. He is known for his research on economic policy, taxes, government spending, and regulation. Weidenbaum created the Center for the Study of American Business in 1975, served as its director during most of the 1975-2000 period, and retired from the directorship at the end of 2000, when the Center was renamed the Weidenbaum Center. In 1981 and 1982, Professor Weidenbaum was President Reagan's first chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. In that capacity, he helped formulate the economic policy of the Reagan administration and was a key spokesman for the administration on economic and financial issues. During the years 1982-1989, he was a member of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board.

Earlier, Professor Weidenbaum was the first Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Nixon administration. He also served as Fiscal Economist in the U.S. Bureau of the Budget and as the Corporate Economist at the Boeing Company. He is a member of the boards of directors of Harbour Group, Macroeconomic Advisers, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

He is a member of advisory boards of the Center for Strategic Tax Reform, the American Council for Capital Formation, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

He received a B.B.A. from City College of New York, an M.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been a faculty member at Washington University since 1964 and was the Chairman of the Economics Department from 1966 to 1969.

He is the author of eight books, the latest being the seventh edition of Business and Government in the Global Marketplace. His previous book, The Bamboo Network, was a finalist in the 1996 competition for global business book of the year. His Small Wars, Big Defense was judged by the Association of American Publishers to be the outstanding economics book of 1992. He has written several hundred articles in publications ranging from American Economic Review to the Wall Street Journal. He is a Fellow of the National Association of Business Economists, Honorary Fellow of the Association for Technical Communication, and a past president of the Midwest Economic Association.

Professor Weidenbaum's international activities include serving as Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and lecturing at universities and research institutes throughout Western Europe and Asia. He received the National Order of Merit from France in recognition of his contributions to foreign policy. In 1989 he was a member of a Presidential Mission to Poland. In 1999-2000, he was chairman of the new Congressional Commission to Review the Trade Deficit.

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