Michael A. Bernstein is senior vice president for academic affairs and provost of Tulane University where he also serves as a professor of history and economics. A recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California-San Diego, where he previously taught for almost two decades, his research and teaching interests focus on the economic and political history of the United States, macroeconomic theory, industrial organization economics, and the history of economic theory. His publications explore the connections between political and economic processes in modern industrial societies as well as the interaction of economic knowledge and professional expertise with those processes as a whole. Along with numerous articles and anthology chapters, Bernstein has published four volumes, including, most recently, A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America (2001).

Lecture topics:

• The Great Depression in American Capitalism
• The American Economy Between the World Wars of the Twentieth Century
• Understanding American Economic Decline: From World War II to the Present
• The Legacies of the Cold War and the Contemporary American Economy
• Economists, Economic Thought, and Public Policy in the Modern Age

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