Oct. 27, 2008
UWSP expert to serve on economy panel
A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point professor of economics will serve
on a panel to discuss Wisconsin’s economy held at UW-Marathon County (UWMC)
on Wednesday, November 5.
Randy Cray, the director of the Central Wisconsin Economic Research Bureau
(CWERB) and a UWSP Department of Business and Economics faculty member, will
discuss “Globalization, the Market Economy and Its Impact on Wisconsin”
along with Mike Knetter, dean of the UW-Madison School of Business, and
Lee Hansen, professor emeritus of economics at UW-Madison. The panel begins
at 7 p.m. in the UWMC theatre located at 518 South 7th Avenue in Wausau.
It is free and open to the public.
The three panelists will talk about how Wisconsin’s economy has fared among the
confluence of open markets, the pressure for increasing profits and the use of
cheap overseas labor:
- Cray will discuss the health and overall dynamics of the local economy,
completing the link from global to national to local.
- Knetter will provide the global context for economic changes occurring
in the U.S.
- Hanson will speak to national economic concerns and how they impact Wisconsin.
Each speaker will talk, then the floor will be open to questions from the
audience and the moderator, Hamid Milani, a UWMC professor of economics.
As director of the CWERB, Cray has helped produce timely reports on Central
Wisconsin’s economic outlook. He has published in a number of scholarly journals
which deal with regional economics. Moreover, he has published over one hundred
Quarterly Economic Indicator Reports for Marathon, Portage and Wood counties.
He is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Midwest Economic Round Table.
The panel discussion is part of the “Wealth & Poverty” series sponsored by the
Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service (WIIPPS), located on the UWMC
campus. It is funded in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council.
WIIPPS programming is also made possible through partnerships with the UW-Colleges,
UWMC and UW Extension.
