search articles:     from the issue of August 18, 2005         CBA chair selected for beltway post After helping re-develop economies of former communist countries, UNL economist John Anderson will provide his expertise within the beltway of Washington, D.C.   Anderson   Appointed as senior economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Anderson will serve as an adviser, with particular duties related to public finance policy issues including tax reform, social security and other federal revenue and spending programs. Anderson, the Baird family professor of economics and chair of the Department of Economics in the UNL College of Business Administration, has extensive international expertise, having acted as economic adviser to the parliament of Moldova and as economics educational adviser in Russia and Bulgaria. He is the author of the best-selling economics textbook, Public Finance," and has been commissioned by state governments to study the effects of property tax rates, economic development incentives and tax increment financing. The Council of Economic Advisers was established by the Employment Act of 1946 to provide the president with objective economic analysis and advice on the development and implementation of a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues. In addition to the chairman and two other members, the council has a professional staff of about 10 senior staff economists, generally professors on one- or two-year leaves from their universities, and 10 advanced graduate students. Four permanent economic statisticians assist the economists in the interpretation and identification of economic data. The NU Board of Regents approved a one-year leave of absence for Anderson at its July 29 meeting. Cynthia H. Milligan, dean of the College of Business Administration, will appoint an interim chair of the Department of Economics to serve during Anderson's term in Washington. GO TO: ISSUE OF AUGUST 18 NEWS HEADLINES FOR AUGUST 18 Students roll back to campus CBA chair selected for beltway post UNL takes lead in Antarctica drilling project Dissertation travels down roadways of commuting wives Durham gift to forge school of architectural engineering and construction in Omaha External research dollars hit record level Food Processing Center Hosts Congressmen FROM THE ARCHIVES New tool monitors drought impact nationwide Technical ag college to offer new degree Tommy Lee Goes to College premiers UNL, iDiverse to develop stress resistant crops UNL lands $2 million grant for international physics experiment UNL, World-Herald program shares skills, ideas 732176S34748X