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Barack Obama's appointment of Berkeley professor Christina D. Romer as chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisors is consistent with this orientation, as she is an expert on the Great Depression and may lend support to the unwarranted focus on the Depression. Indeed, Romer has supported the Fed's current monetary policy because she sees parallels with earlier financial panics. (See who's in President-elect Obama's White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the Last Depression: The Fed's Policy Errors | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

...expert on energy and climate, Holdren has been vocal on the issue of global warming, and his appointment has been seen as indication the Obama administration plans to be far more active on climate change than its predecessor...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama Appoints Harvard Prof As Chief Science Adviser | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...experience has not been confined to academia. From 1994-2001, Holdren served on President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. Since 2002, he has served as co-chair of the National Commission on Energy Policy. Holdren was also a lead author of the UN Scientific Expert Group's 2007 report on Climate Change and Sustainable Development...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama Appoints Harvard Prof As Chief Science Adviser | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...Guineans who poured into the streets to cheer the soldiers know too well, they never had democratic rule - challenges to Conté's civilian government were squashed by ruthless force. Guinea expert Peter Pham, director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs at James Madison University, told the Associated Press this week that Western leaders should not blindly trust in a constitution which the now-dead president Conté drafted largely to keep himself in power for decades. It was "not the result of any democratic process," he noted. After such a sorry history, even a coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Guinea's People Welcomed the Coup | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...harmonious flow" - having nearby vendors supply parts, and workers assemble them, as they're needed rather than stockpiling too much inventory or flooding the market with, say, gas-guzzlers no one wants to buy anymore. "Southern communities understand you can't tie organizations down with restrictions," says manufacturing management expert David Miller of the Alabama Productivity Center. "Successful auto companies in the South provide all the positives you'd find in a union shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Fall Gives Power to Rival Dixie | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

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