Stanford, California: Economics roundup

The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research(SIEPR) hosted its 10th annual economic summit on March 15 on the Stanford University campus. Among the hundreds of attendees were, from left: former US secretary of state George Shultz; SIEPR director John Shoven; David Wessel, economics editor of the Wall Street Journal; and Wang Lianhai, deputy director of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce's foreign-trade department. Zhang Qidong / China Daily