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Professor Haskel (Ben) Benishay

A Brief Biographical Sketch

Dr. Haskel (Ben) Benishay received his doctorate from the University of Chicago. He has taught economics and business and management at the University of Chicago, Roosevelt University, State University of New York at Buffalo, and at Northwestern University, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Professor Benishay has published his research results in numerous professional journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Journal of Money and Banking. His research areas included macro-economics, finance, accounting, marketing, and management.

Professor Benishay has been a consultant to Business and to the World Bank.

Professor Benishay is able to explain complex economic and financial issues and report on complex economic and financial events in a clear, understandable, and yet exciting manner. (He has been voted an 'outstanding professor' by participants of various executive programs.) His enthusiastic presentations make economic issues of the day come alive with new meanings and fresh insights. Dr. Benishay has made numerous presentations on economic and financial issues to audiences at conventions of business and professional groups and to business executives and others in seminar workshops. He has been interviewed by radio, newspaper, and television reporters and has been a main participant and a panel discussant on radio and television shows.

From the year 1984 to the year 2001, he had been interviewed weekly (Thursday mornings) on Chicago financial and management television channel 26, regarding macro-economic and management issues. He has written a monthly column for the PIONEER PRESS, a chain of forty newspapers serving Chicago suburbs.

He speaks on macro-economic, financial, and management topics .including the following: the economic outlook for the U.S. economy, the long-term prospects for wages and employment, the outlook for the bond and stock markets, the mysteries of inflation, government deficits and crowding out of private investment, the good and the bad of a cut in tax rates, unemployment, the money supply, reality and illusion in presidential-economics, prices of precious metals and real estate, supply side economics, a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, managerial problem solving, mergers and acquisitions, and other topics.

He also makes presentations and provides consulting services on problem solving by rational methods in organizational settings, and the formulation of long-term policies for organizations.