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Allison Schrager

Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

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Allison Schrager is a virtual guest at Crosscut Festival 2022. Schrager is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, and a City Journal contributing editor, where her research focuses on public finance, pensions, tax policy, labor markets, and monetary policy. She is also the author of An Economist Walks Into a Brothel.

Previously, Schrager was a journalist at Quartz, led retirement product innovation at Dimensional Fund Advisors, and consulted to international organizations, including the OECD and IMF. She has been a regular contributor to the Economist, Reuters, and Bloomberg Businessweek, and her writing has also appeared in Playboy, Wired, National Review, and Foreign Affairs. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.

When: 3pm, Friday, May 6.

Where: This is a virtual part of the festival. RSVP now.

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Scheduled Appearances

CANCELED: The Power of Republican Policy

Crosscut Festival 2022
Fri May 6, 2022 | 3:00pm

This event has been canceled. The Republican Party took its lead from President Donald Trump and barely offered a platform for the 2020 elections. But behind the scenes, top conservative think tanks are building bold ideas that will be there when the right regains power.

 

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Featuring: Allison Schrager, Robert Doar, Oren Cass

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About the Festival

The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival brings together journalists, newsmakers, and innovators from around the country to talk about the issues that are animating our cultural conversations. The festival includes live recordings of television and podcasts from The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Vox, Slate, Pushkin, NPR and PBS; as well as community meetups, meet-and-greets, food trucks, DJs, and more.

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