55-Plus Club meeting

“Is the West Over? What Would Keynes Say?” will be the topic of a
presentation by Sylvia Nasar, James S. and John L. Knight Professor of
Business Journalism at Columbia University, at the meeting of 55-Plus at
10:00 a.m., Thursday, December 5, 2013, at the Jewish Center of
Princeton, 435 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ. Everyone is welcome.
Admission is free, with a $3 donation suggested. 



Intelligent people have argued that the western model of economics and
democracy has reached its limits since at least 1848. Might they finally
be right now? We are faced with the worst financial crisis since the
1930s, a nasty first world recession, Islam-terrorism and rising sea
levels. Professor Nasar draws on the thinkers from her latest book,
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, and the historical record
to parse the evidence.



Sylvia Nasar is the first James S. and John L. Knight Professor of
Business Journalism at Columbia University. She co-directs the M.A.
program in business journalism. Trained as an economist, Professor Nasar
was a New York Times economics correspondent (1991-1999), a staff writer
at Fortune (1983-1989) and a columnist at U.S. News & World Report
(1990). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, The New York
Times Book Review, Fast Company, London Telegraph and numerous other
publications. She has lectured frequently on topics ranging from
globalization and economics to mental illness and mathematics. Professor
Nasar is the author of the bestselling biography A Beautiful Mind, which
has been published in 30 languages, and inspired an Academy Award
winning movie. Professor Nasar co-edited The Essential John Nash (2001)
and is writing a narrative history about 20th Century economic thinkers.
Her most recent book is Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (2011).



55-Plus was organized in 1986 as a non-sectarian group to promote social
contacts and friendships among men and women who are either retired or
who have flexible working hours. Members meet at 10 a.m., usually on the
first and third Thursday mornings of each month (except late June, July
and August) to listen to and discuss a wide range of topics presented by
prominent speakers. 55-Plus meetings are open to the general public.