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Date: Oct. 7, 1996
Contact: Patricia Coen (609) 258-5764

Alan S. Blinder, Former Federal Reserve Vice Chair to Speak on Politicizing of Government

Princeton, N.J.--Former Vice Chair of the Federal Reservels Board of Governors Alan S. Blinder will address the question ``Could/Should Government Be Made Less Political?'' at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, October 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.

Blinder, a member of Princeton's Class of 1967, is currently the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics, a post he has held since 1971. He returned to it last winter after taking a leave of absence to join President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, and then Federal Reserve Board. He was on the Council during the Clinton administration's efforts to reduce the deficit while increasing economic activity, and with the Federal Reserve during intensive efforts to stem inflation.

He is the author or co-author of 10 books, including Hard Heads, Soft Hearts; Growing Together; Economics: Principles and Policy (with W. J. Baumol) and Toward an Economic Theory of Income and Policy. From 1985 until 1994 he wrote a monthly column for Business Week magazine.

His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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