Video: How to Stimulate an Economic Recovery?

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Laura Tyson, former National Economic Advisor to President Clinton, argues that infrastructure spending and health care reform should be two policies at the heart of the next President's economic recovery plan.

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As debate on the recession moves from "if" to "when" to "how long," The New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) and the New America Foundation host a panel entitled "It's the Economic Recovery Plan, Stupid," with top economists and business executives.

The panel will discuss the economic and political realities behind the debate on how best to stimulate the economy, including how a major public infrastructure investment might serve as a centerpiece of a longer-term recovery program.

SCEPA will also present a new publication, The Promise of Public Investment, based on its year-long series of forums designed to question conventional wisdom on U.S. economic policy - The New School

Laura D'Andrea Tyson is a professor and former Dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Tyson served in the Clinton Administration from January 1993 through December 1996. Between February 1995 and December 1996 she served as the President's National Economic Adviser and was the highest ranking woman in the Clinton White House.

Prior to her appointment as National Economic Adviser, Dr. Tyson served as the sixteenth Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the first woman to hold that post. In that capacity, she was responsible for providing the president and his National Economic Council with advice and analysis on all economic policy matters, for preparing the administration's economic forecasts and for the annual Economic Report of the President.

From 2002 to 2006, Tyson was the first female dean of the London Business School. From 1998 to 2001, she was dean of the Haas School of Business. Tyson has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1987, a Director of ATT Inc. since 1999, and a Director of Eastman Kodak.