John Ehrenberg is Professor of Political Science and Department Chair at Long Island University. Professor Ehrenberg's research ranges from the history of political theory to selected topics in modern political ideologies. His two most recent books -- Servants of Wealth: The Right's Assault on Economic Justice and Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea -- carry some of those concerns into contemporary life, reflecting his ongoing desire to address some of the central issues of modern political affairs. He is currently working on a series of projects raised by the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq. A recipient of the David E. Newton Award for Outstanding Teaching, he teaches a wide variety of courses, some of which are Classical Political Theory; Contemporary Democratic Thought; Marxism; and Economic Inequality and Democracy.
Barry C. Lynn is director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He is author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction (Wiley 2010) and End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation (Doubleday 2005). Lynn’s groundbreaking writings on industrial interdependence among nations and the growing fragility of complex industrial systems have attracted wide attention, and he has been invited to present his work to high officials in Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Taiwan, and the European Commission, as well as in the White House and U.S. Treasury Department.
Robert C. Pozen is Chairman of MFS Investment Management®, which manages more than $200 billion in assets for more than five million investors worldwide. He was named to his current position in February 2004. Mr. Pozen is an independent director of Medtronics and BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises). In addition, he is involved in various non-profit organizations, such as the Council on Foreign Relations and The Commonwealth Fund. He was recently elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During 2002 and 2003, Pozen was the John Olin Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, teaching interdisciplinary courses focused on corporate governance and financial institutions. Mr. Pozen also served on President Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security in late 2001 and 2002. He is the author of Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System.
Walter Williams is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington; Distinguished Scholar, Center for Politics and Public Policy, Political Science Department, University of Washington His publications include The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good; Government in America (with Bryan D. Jones); Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy, Georgetown University Press, 2003; Honest Numbers and Democracy: Federal Domestic Policy Analysis Staffs, Georgetown University Press, 1998; Mismanaging America: The Rise of the Anti-Analytic Presidency, University Press of Kansas, 1990; Washington Policy Choices (edited with William Zumeta and Betty Jane Narver), Graduate School of Public Affairs/Institute for Public Policy and Management, 1990. Washington, Westminster and Whitehall, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
