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 White Plains, NY - The Westchester Progressive Forum will host a panel discussion, “Understanding Today’s Economy: USA and the World,” Sunday, April 26th from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at the Greenburgh Public Library Meeting Room on Route 119 (Tarrytown Road) in White Plains.
Guest speakers will include Frank Roosevelt, Ph.D., professor of economics at Sarah Lawrence College and Farhad Ameen, Ph.D. professor of economics at SUNY-Westchester. The program will be moderated by Harry Phillips, III, member of the New York State Board of Regents,
The Westchester Progressive Forum was established in 1998 to encourage discussions and to promote progressive ideas to meet the demands of the 21st century. The WPP provides an opportunity for a fresh and untried vision of government based on principles of a liberal agenda committed to peace, civil liberties, human rights, economic justice, the dignity of work, environmental sanity, and to a society that provides the basic needs for housing, safe food, education, health care, and a secure old age.
“There is no more pressing issue today than the economy,” says Gloria Karp, president of the Westchester Progressive Forum. “Unemployment is high, health care is prohibitively expensive, and the lack of affordable housing has increased the numbers of homeless children and families. What role can governments play to ease this crisis?”
Frank Roosevelt graduated from Yale University and received a .M.A. degree from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. degree from New School for Social Research. For his 1977 thesis, The New School honored him with the “Edith Henry Johnson Memorial Award” for that year’s “outstand dissertation in economics, civic affairs, and education.” At Sarah Lawrence he was the recipient of the “Lipkin Family Prize for Inspirational Teaching” (2004). He has served on the editorial board of the Review of Radical Political Economics and has published articles in that journal as well as in the Journal of Economic Issues, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Dissent. He is co-editor of Why Market Socialism? Voices from DISSENT (M.E. Sharpe, 1994) and a contributor to E. J. Nell, editor, Growth, Profits, and Property: Essays in the Revival of Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1980); co-author with Samuel Bowles and Richard Edwards of Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change, third edition (Oxford University Press, 2005). Dr. Roosevelt has been a member of the Sarah Lawrence faculty since 1977. His main interests are in comparative economics and alternative perspectives in economics.
Farhad Ameen graduated from the Univesity of Dhaka, Bahgladeh with a B.S.S. (Honors) degree in economics. He attended Viginia Ploytechnic Institute & State University were he was awarded both an M.A. and Ph.D degree in economics,. Dr. Ameen is currently Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Chair for Public Policy/ SUNY-Westchester and a consultant toMacro International (research on child labor and forced labor). His interests include: economics of the Grameen Bank, social capital and economic well-being, microcredit, challenging the frontiers of poverty reduction. He is the author of numerous publications and a frequent guest speaker and panel participant on topics focusing on global economic and socialissues.
Harry Phillips, III – Member New York State Board of Regents (representing Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland and Westchester). Harry Phillips,, 3rd graduated from Harvard with honors and received a Masters degree in financial services from The American College. He was appointed by the state legislature to the New York Board of Regents, on which he has served since 2001. He was Board Chair of Westchester Community College for many years.
Mr. Phillips was founder of H&R Phillips, Inc. a general brokerage agency; The Management Compensation Group, a benefits consulting firm; Stein & Day, a book publisher; Datamark, a manufacturer of high speed printers; and served as President of Geothermal Electric Corp. He is presently Managing Director of Winged Keel Group, Inc., a financial security management firm in New York City.
He authored the textbook, “Advanced Employee Benefit Planning” and wrote an industry newsletter for 40 years. “Leader Magazine” named Phillips as one of the 25 most outstanding life underwriters for the decades of the ‘70s and ‘80s and again in the 90s. Mr. Philips is active in civic and charitable organizations in New York City and in his home community of Hartsdale.
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