Paul Rivlin spent the spring of 2008 as Visiting Professor of Economics and Jewish Studies at Emory University, in Atlanta, where he gave courses on the Israeli economy, the international oil market, and the political economy of the Middle East. In November 2007 he participated in the Seventh Anglo-Israel Colloquium at Kfar Blum on the subject of “Wealth and Happiness in Israel and the United Kingdom.” In February 2008 he gave the Robinson Lectures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The first lecture was on problems in the Israeli economy and the second on implications of high oil prices. In June he lectured at the Canada-Israel Committee in Vancouver on Israel’s economic transformation and at the Emory University Institute for the Study of Modern Israel’s annual teacher’s workshop in Atlanta. His chapter on “The Constraints on Economic Development in Morocco and Tunisia” was published in Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and Daniel Zisenwine (eds.), The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion, and Politics (University of Florida Press, 2007). The Middle East Institute published his paper “The Israeli Economy at Sixty” in Viewpoints, as part of a special spring edition on Israel at sixty. The Brenthurst Foundation published his paper “Israel and Jordan: Lessons from their Development, 1950-2006” in Globalisation and Economic Success: Policy Options for Africa (2007).

email: privlin@post.tau.ac.il