At the most recent event in our Meeting of the Minds series, experts from Chicago Booth and the University of Chicago came together to discuss the economies of the United States and Asia.
Our panelists included Chicago Booth professor Austan D. Goolsbee and UChicago professor Dali Yang. Best-selling author Joshua Cooper Ramo moderated their discussion. They explored how the COVID-19 crisis, trade tensions, climate change, and other recent political and economic events have affected the United States and China.
You can now explore key takeaways from the event, or watch the full recording.
For more insights from our speakers, visit our resources page featuring their recent media appearances.
Sponsored by Chicago Booth and the Stevanovich Institute, A Meeting of the Minds brings together faculty members from Booth, the humanities, and related fields to help sharpen your capacity for analytical thinking, creativity, and innovation.
Booth professor Austan D. Goolsbee serves on the Economic Advisory Panel to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He previously served in Washington as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and a member of President Obama’s cabinet. His research has earned him recognition as a Fulbright Scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan fellow. He has been named one of the 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.
Austan Goolsbee
UChicago professor Dali Yang is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles on the politics and political economy of China. His current projects include studies of social regulation, environmental governance, social and political trust, and state-society relations. Between 2010 and June 2016, he was the founding faculty director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, a university-wide initiative to promote collaboration and exchange.
Dali Yang
In addition to leading a strategic consulting firm in New York, Ramo is a board member for FedEx and Starbucks and the author of the international best-seller The Age of the Unthinkable. His papers on China’s development have been widely distributed in China and abroad. Trained as an economist, Ramo was previously the youngest senior and foreign editor in TIME magazine’s history.
Joshua Cooper Ramo, AB ’92
