Conference Panels: Saturday, April 8
8:15 am continental breakfast
8:45 am The Economics of Health and Disease
Michael R. Milken, Chairman, Milken Institute, Chairman, FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions, and Cofounder, Milken Family Foundation
Kevin M. Murphy, Founding member of the Initiative on Chicago Price Theory and George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Department of Economics, The University of Chicago
Emily Oster, Becker Fellow, Initiative on Chicago Price Theory, The University of Chicago
Robert H. Topel, Isidore Brown and Gladys J. Brown Professor in Urban and
Labor Economics, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Andrew von Eschenbach, Acting Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
10 am The Role of the Media
Paul Gigot, Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal, Pulitzer Prize winner
Jesse M. Shapiro, Inaugural Becker Fellow, Initiative on Chicago Price Theory, The University of Chicago
Andrei Shleifer, Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Economics, Harvard University
John F. Tierney, Op-Ed columnist, The New York Times
11:15 am The Biggest Questions of the Day
George A. Akerlof, Koshland Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics
Gary S. Becker, University Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, and Sociology, The University of Chicago, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and 1992 Nobel Laureate in Economics
Edward L. Glaeser, Professor of Economics and Director, A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Harvard University