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Events
Upcoming Conferences - Spring 2010
The Economics of Climate Change: An International Conference
April 9 - 10, 2010 |
Where do we go after Copenhagen's failure?
For two days, U.S. and international academics, government officials, and policy analysts will join to study the economic issues associated with carbon emission, climate change, and emission regulation. The conference will offer important lessons on how to enact effective climate change policy in light of the United States’ fragile economy and the post-Copenhagen tensions between developed and developing countries.
The program includes keynote speeches by Hirofumi Uzawa of Tokyo University and Ernst Ulrich von Weizacker, former chairman of the German Parliament’s Environmental Committee. Participants include representatives from the European Commission and the Obama Administration; Tariq Banuri, director of the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development and member of the Nobel Prize-winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Alfred Greiner of the University of Bielefeld; Geoffrey Heal of Columbia University; and Franz Wirl of the University of Vienna. New School faculty includes Lopamudra Banerjee, Edward Nell and Willi Semmler from The New School for Social Research and Michael Cohen of the Graduate Program of International Affairs.
Friday, April 09, 2010 - Saturday, April 10, 2010
8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
Admission is free. Reservations required. Go to http://scepa.eventbrite.com.
For more information, call 212-229-5901 x4911 or email scepa@newschool.edu.
Sponsored by The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis and the Economics Department of The New School for Social Research. The conference is made possible by support from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, the Alex C. Walker Foundation and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany New York.
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US Corporations in the Recovery and Beyond
April 22 & 23, 2010
Americans have supported a heightened role for the government in restoring economic growth. And there has been much concern about how to stabilize and regulate financial firms. For a return to prosperity, however, Americans will have to rely on healthy non-financial corporations. The purpose of the two-day conference on US Corporations in the Recovery and Beyond is to examine how these companies are responding to the economic crisis, and how they will contribute to the re-emergence of a prosperous economy. The main themes of the conference will be:
- Reigniting the pace of corporate investment and job creation.
- Reviving innovation in the US business sector
- Developing a forward-looking industrial policy that recognizes the need for socially-useful technologies and environmental sustainability.
- Making US corporations work for, rather than against, American workers.
- Reversing the “financialization” of corporations, focusing especially on the allocation of corporate resources to stock buybacks.
- Basing executive pay on innovation and job creation rather than speculation in and manipulation of financial markets
The conference on US Corporations in the Recovery and Beyond will gather together a group of leading scholars who have been studying these issues closely, and who have some new ideas about what should be done about them. Also participating will be some of the most progressive thinkers on these issues in industry, government, civil society organizations, and the labor movement.
The conference, jointly sponsored by The New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis and the Ford Foundation Project on Financial Institutions for Innovation and Development, will be held at The New School on April 22nd and 23rd of 2010.
Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: 66 W. 12th Street, Room 407
Date: Friday, April 23, 2010
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, Rm. 101
The event is free. Reservations are required. Go to http://scepacorporations.eventbrite.com/
For more information, call 212-229-5901 x491l or email scepa@newschool.edu.
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