2009 Downtown Business Breakfast

Monday, April 27, 2009, 7 a.m.

The Westin Seattle

Seattle Pacific University’s 13th annual Downtown Business Breakfast features Robert J. Shiller, distinguished professor of economics at Yale University. Hailed as one of the world’s most far-seeing political economists, Professor Shiller has been recognized around the world for his brilliant forecasts of financial bubbles, his penetrating insights into market dynamics, and his bold and successful innovations in the emerging field of behavioral finance.

Shiller’s latest book, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (February 2009), was coauthored with 2001 Nobel Prize-winning economist George A. Akerlof. In 2008, Shiller published The Subprime Solution (Princeton University Press, September 2008), which explains the housing market’s collapse and broader impact, and proposes bold measures to solve both the current crisis and the underlying economic weaknesses that made it possible. His 2000 book, Irrational Exuberance, a New York Times best-seller, accurately predicted the dot-com bubble’s collapse.

For more information about the 2009 Downtown Business Breakfast, contact 206-281-2723 or btaylor@spu.edu.

Former Downtown Business Breakfast speakers include:

Carly Fiorina
Best-selling author; strategic advisor to business and government.

Vali Nasr

Senior fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

David McCullough
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 1776 and John Adams.

David Brooks
New York Times columnist.
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Paul A. Gigot
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal.

George Mitchell
Former U.S. senator.

William Bennett
Former U.S. secretary of education, "drug czar."
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Afternoon Public Lecture on the SPU Campus

About the Downtown Business Breakfast

Through this annual event, now in its 13th year, SPU President Philip Eaton gathers more than 1,200 community leaders for breakfast to hear from national speakers who engage the audience with discussion of the most thought-provoking ideas and issues of our time.

  To learn about other SPU events, visit the Engage! Events website.