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Urban Revitalization: Dream or Illusion? - Herbert J. Gans
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - By profession both an urban planner and sociologist, Herbert J. Gans is well known for his writings on urban and community studies city planning, urban poverty, social planning, popular culture and the mass media. Some of his works include The Urban Villagers, People and Plans, Popular Culture and High Culture, and the forthcoming Deciding What's News: A Study of the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek and Time. Aside from his books, Gans has also published many articles in various popular and professional journals. At present, Gans is professor of sociology at Columbia University and senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research in New York City. Gans was born in Cologne, Germany in 1927 and came to America in 1940. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1947 and received an MA from the same in 1950. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1957. Part of the National Affairs Series: America's Economic System - Is It Obsolete?.

Film: The City
12:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Made for the 1939 World's Fair, this classic documentary film shows four phases of town building in the United States: the New England town, with its central plaza; the unstructured industrial community which produces pollution and human wastes; the teeming metropolis: and the new decentralized community, planned for space and the segregation of work and play. Part of the National Affairs Series-America's Economics: Is It Obsolete?

Urban Revitalization: Dream or Illusion? - Roy Bahl
12:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Department of Economics, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Dimension 5 - WOI-TV
10:30 PM – Channel 5 - A panel of Institute participants will address the issues focusing on the symposium's theme America's Economic System: Is It Obsolete? Betty Lou Varnum will moderate the program. Part of the National Affairs Series-America's Economic System: Is It Obsolete?

Must We Live With Stagflation? - James Tobin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James Tobin has been affiliated with Yale University since 1950, serving in such capacities as director of Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, chairman of the department of economics and as Sterling Professor of Economics. Tobin was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Kennedy administration, 1961-62. Part of the National Affairs Series: America's Economic System - Is It Obsolete?.

Film: Anatomy of an Inflation
12:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - The economic/political forces that lead to inflation and recession, the relationship of government to business and the economy, the functions of the Feeral Reserve System, and the effect of these economic factors upon individual people's daily lives are examined. Part of the National Affairs Series-America's Economic System: Is it Obsolete?

Who Owns America? - Lester Thurow
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lester Thurow is professor of economics and management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A graduate of Williams College, he received his MA and PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Before joining the MIT staff, Thurow taught at Harvard University where he was awarded the Graduate national Fellowship and the David A. Wells Prize for his book entitled Poverty and Discrimination. Since 1967, Thurow has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals in the areas of employment, income distribution, and taxation. Part of the National Affairs Series: America's Economic System - Is It Obsolete?.

Film: Taxes, Taxes
12:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Many of the current and urgent questions of concerned taxpayers are dealt with: how big is the tax bite? How are taxes avoided? How are taxes hidden? Is tax reform possible? Part of the National Affairs Series-America's Economic System: Is it Obsolete?

Family Farm or Corporate America: Who'll Serve Supper? - Harold F. Breimyer and General Harold Oppenheimer
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Dr. Harold Breimyer is professor of economics at the University of Missouri. He served as president of the American Agriculture Economics association in 1968-69. In 1973 the Association named him a "Fellow." From 1936 to 1966, he served in many capacities with the United States Department fo Agriculture. Breimyer attended Ohio State University, University of California, an received his Ph.D. from American University in 1960. General Harold Oppenheimer chairs the Board of Oppenheimer Industries, a corporation which provides agricultural and livestock investment opportunities to private businesses and individuals. The corporation offers clients services in property acquisition, farm and ranch management and sale lease back operations. The members of the Board are somewhat unique in that, like General Oppenheimer, they all have a military background. Oppenheimer Industries has been associated with agriculture since 1910. Part of the National Affairs Series: America's Economic System: Is It Obsolete?

Film: Food: Green Grown the Profits
12:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Modern food growing, processing, and marketing are shown to be the domain of agribusiness. The film argues that this corporate concentration creates unwholesome and undesirable practices committed in the name of profit. Part of the National Affairs Series--America's Economic System: Is it Obsolete?