Cecilia Rouse Delivers 2024 Feldstein Lecture

Cecilia Rouse, president of the Brookings Institution and a professor at Princeton University, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers between 2021 and 2023, presented the 2024 Martin Feldstein Lecture on "Lessons for Economists from the Pandemic" on July 22. Her presentation highlighted the challenges to policy design in a time of heightened uncertainty about the public health trajectory of COVID-19. Rouse, a former member of the NBER Board of Directors, also described policy trade-offs associated with some of the key macroeconomic and microeconomic policies adopted in response to the pandemic. The Feldstein Lecture Series was launched in 2009 to celebrate the late Martin Feldstein's three decades of transformative leadership of the NBER.