Special Economic Round Table Speakers
Tom Cargill
Thomas F. Cargill is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor Emeritus of Economics in the College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University California, Davis, and he has been Visiting Lecturer at Cal State University, Sacramento; Assistant Professor at Purdue University; Visiting Scholar, Comptroller Currency, Washington, D.C,: and Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution; and Visiting Economist at the Bank of Japan, Tokyo.
He has written extensively on financial and monetary issues in Japan and the United States, especially monetary/financial economics and applied econometrics. He has also written on Korean issues, has been a visiting scholar at the Bank of Korea and is a member of the advisory council for the Korea Economic Institute in Washington, D.C.
His books include Money, the Financial System, and Monetary Policy; The Transition of Finance in Japan and the United States: A Comparative Perspective; Postal Savings and Fiscal Investment and Loan Program in Japan: The PSS and the FILP; and Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan.
Gerald O'Driscoll
Gerald O’Driscoll is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives. He is a widely quoted expert on international monetary and financial issues. Previously the director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at the Heritage Foundation, O’Driscoll was senior editor of the annual Index of Economic Freedom, copublished by Heritage and the Wall Street Journal.
O’Driscoll has also served as vice president and director of policy analysis at Citigroup. Before that, he was vice president and economic adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He also served as staff director of the congressionally mandated Meltzer Commission on international financial institutions.
O’Driscoll has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Iowa State University; and New York University. He is widely published in leading publications, including the Wall Street Journal. He appears frequently on national radio and television, including Fox Business News, CNBC, and Bloomberg. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and is president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education.
O’Driscoll holds a BA in economics from Fordham University and an MA and PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Mark Pingle
Mark Pingle is a professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Reno Department of Economics, where he has served since 1990.
Professor Pingle has published papers, books, and other writings in the areas of macroeconomics, behavioral economics, and experimental economics. Professor Pingle is Book Editor for Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and associate editor for the Review of Behavioral Economics. He is a past President of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics.
Since Fall 2008, professor Pingle has focused on building an Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. This effort has included much community outreach in an effort to enhance economic development in Nevada, specifically by seeking to develop a culture of entrepreneurship. Progress includes more than $10 million in university endowment funds raised for entrepreneurship, rapidly expanding enrollments in entrepreneurship courses, and a community organization called Entrepreneurship Nevada that fosters collaboration among community groups that support entrepreneurship.
Mark has been President of The Hayek Group since 2018.
Professor Pingle grew up in a cattle ranching family in Southern Oregon and played on a state championship baseball team in high school. He received his B.S. degree in economics from Southern Oregon State College in 1983. He received his M.A. in 1984 and Ph.D. in Economics in 1988, both from the University of Southern California.
Mark and his wife Melissa have three girls—Rachel, Rebekah, and Leah — and seven grandchildren.
Topic
The year 2024 has been a great year for The Hayek Group. Come and celebrate 2024 at this dinner meeting with other Hayek Group members and friends. There will be several activities where you will have opportunity to meet other people in the room!
In lieu of a featured speaker, this dinner meeting will feature an economic round table of economists (Tom Cargill, Gerald O’Driscoll, and Mark Pingle) who are also members of The Hayek Group. Each economist will present a short (5 to 7 minute) expression of their view of current economic conditions, just post election. Where is the economy now? Where are we headed? What are the most important policy actions to consider to move us toward a brighter future? After these short presentations, there will be an extended Q&A time, where YOU can express yourself and get feedback from the economic round table participants.
