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Dr. Amy Finkelstein

John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at MIT

New Books in 2023: 

Dr. Amy Finkelstein (co-authored with Liran Einav):

"We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care"

Dr. Amy Finkelstein (authored with leading economists Liran Einav and Ray Fisman): 

"Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It"

Amy Finkelstein is the John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received the John Bates Clark Medal for her contributions to economics. She is a MacArthur “Genius” fellowship, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Ivan Arreguin-Toft, Ph.D.

Visiting Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Ivan Arreguin-Toft, Ph.D.'s new book: "How the Weak Win Wars"

Ivan Arreguin-Toft, Ph.D. (@imarreguintoft) is the author of How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict, and a U.S. Army military intelligence veteran. He is a founding member of the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at Oxford University’s Martin School; where he served as Associate Director of Dimension 1 (cybersecurity policy and strategy) from 2012–2015. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Wellesley College, Harvard College, Boston University, Oxford University, and Brown University. He is currently Visiting Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts; and is currently working to complete an empirical inquiry into the utility of barbarism: the deliberate harm of noncombatants as a strategy in war or military occupation. His most recent publications focus on asymmetric conflict dynamics in cybersecurity and emerging technologies (AI, autonomous weapons).

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Mr. Andrew Eschtruth

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College

Mr. Andrew Eschtruth is associate director for external relations at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. He directs the Center’s communication activities, including publications, press relations, and social media. Mr. Eschtruth also manages relationships with the government, foundation, and corporate communities, and speaks to a variety of audiences on retirement-related topics. He is the co-author (with Charles D. Ellis and Alicia H. Munnell) of Falling Short: The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Before joining the Center in 1999, Mr. Eschtruth was a senior research analyst with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) specializing in Social Security, federal fiscal policy, and the economic implications of an aging population. While at the GAO, Mr. Eschtruth served on a special assignment as an aide to the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Mr. Eschtruth earned his B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in public policy from Duke University.

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Dr. Deborah Lucas

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy.

Dr. Deborah Lucas’s current research lies at the intersection of finance and policy, with a focus on economically meaningful cost measurement and assessment of government financial activities. Some current projects include developing and applying improved models to measure credit subsidies to state-owned enterprises, evaluating the international fiscal and macroeconomic implications of COVID-19 credit support and forbearance programs, creating a world atlas of government financial institutions, and analyzing the costs and welfare consequences of government financial products such as reverse mortgages.

Lucas is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Term Professor at the PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University, and a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. She serves on an advisory board at the Urban Institute and at the Peterson Institute, and is on the editorial board of the Annual Review of Financial Economics. She is a board member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and P/E Investments, and a consultant for the Congressional Budget Office. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration and the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Previous appointments include chief economist, and subsequently assistant and associate director at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, member of the Social Security Technical Advisory Panel, senior staff economist for U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and coeditor of the JMCB. An expert on federal credit programs, she has testified before the U.S. Congress on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, student loans, and strategically important financial institutions.

Lucas received her BA, MA, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

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Dr. Doug Elmendorf

Dean of and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School

Dr. Doug Elmendorf has been dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School since 2016. He had been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution after serving as the director of the Congressional Budget Office from January 2009 through March 2015. He had previously been a senior fellow at Brookings, assistant director of the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board, deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department, senior economist at the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, and an assistant professor at Harvard University. In those policy roles, Doug worked on budget policy, health care issues, the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy, Social Security, income security programs, financial markets, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, and a range of other topics. He earned his PhD and AM in economics from Harvard University and his AB summa cum laude from Princeton University.

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Spencer Glendon

Founder at Probable Futures

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