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CEPA Events: Fall
2003
CEPA events
are free and open to the public, and they are usually held in the
CEPA conference room, 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York City
(unless noted otherwise). For further information, call CEPA at
212-229-5901 or write to cepa@newschool.edu.
A complete listing
of workshop events will shortly be posted below.
CEPA
Workshop on Economic Policy
All CEPA workshops
are held in the conference room at CEPA, 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor.
The workshops are free and open to the public. Copies of the presented
papers will be made available. This lecture series is made possible
with funding from the Program
on Markets, Equality and Democracy.
Wednesday,
September 17, 2003, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)
"The Scientific Dimensions of Social Knowledge and their Distant
Echoes in 20th century American Philosophy of Science"
[Download
PDF 160KB]
Wednesday,
October 8, 2003, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Jörg Huffschmid (University of Bremen)
"Economic Policy Obstacles to Full Employment and Social Cohesion
in Europe" and "Better Institutions, Rules and Tools for
Full Employment and Social Welfare in Europe."
[Download
PDF 1—104KB, Download
PDF 2—60KB]
Wednesday,
October 15, 2003, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Amit Bhaduri
"An Alternative Approach to the Theory of Endogenous Growth"
[Download paper PDF
104KB]
Tuesday,
October 21, 2003, 12:30 p.m.
Jörg Bilbow
"Pushing Germany Off the Cliff Edge—Spreading the 'German
Disease'"
[A short version of his paper is available at the Levy Institute
website at: http://www.levy.org/docs/pn/03-4.html]
Monday,
October 27, 2003, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Bob Pollin (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
"Wage Bargaining and the U.S. Phillips Curve: Was Greenspan
Right about 'Traumatized Workers' in the 1990s?" (co-sponsored
by the Economics Department Seminar series)
Wednesday,
November 5, 2003, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Josh Bivens (Economic Policy Institute)
"Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Using Temporary Import Tariffs
to Unwind the U.S. Current Account Deficit and Endow a Public Fund
for Global Public Goods"
Wednesday,
November 19, 2003, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Heidi Hartman and Stephen Rose (Institute for Women's
Policy Research)
Department
Seminars
The Economics
Department fall seminar series is free and open to the public. Seminars
(unless otherwise noted) will be held in the CEPA conference room,
80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor.
Monday,
October 20, 6:30pm.
Joseph Stiglitz
"The Roaring Nineties" (Wollman Auditorium, 66 West 12th
Street)
Monday, October 27, 6:30pm.
Bob Pollin (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
"Wage Bargaining and the U.S. Phillips Curve: Was Greenspan
Right about 'Traumatized Workers' in the 1990s?" [download
PDF 112KB]
(co-sponsored by CEPA Workshops in Economic Policy)
Monday, December 1, 6:00pm.
Nicoli Mattrassi (University of Capetown)
"The Economics of AIDS Prevention and Treatment in Africa"
(co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science)
Thursday,
December 4, 2-4pm. Room 300 65 Fifth Avenue
Gerard Dumenil
"Neoliberalism and Neoimperialism."
Gerard Dumenil has worked extensively with Dominique Levy on the
political economy of contemporary capitalism from a Marxist standpoint.
Their 1993 book, The Economics of the Profit Rate, is an
excellent summary of contemporary theory and evidence on the profit
rate. Dumenil and Levy's papers can be accessed through their web
page: http://www.cepremap.ens.fr/levy
Dissertation
Workshop
The Economics
Department's dissertation workshop is designed to discuss the
development of thesis topics, thesis proposals and research methods.
All students are welcome to attend and students may present their
research at any stage in its development. The workshops meet in
the CEPA conference room at 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, on Mondays
(and occasionally on another day) from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. If you
would like to present your work, please contact Prof. Duncan Foley
(foleyd@newschool.edu).
September
15, Duncan Foley, "What is a thesis?"
September 22, Massimiliano La Marca, "Real Exchange
Rate, Competitiveness and Policy Implication: a Review of Theoretical
Approaches and Empirical Applications."
September 29, Duncan Foley, "Thesis research
and careers in Economics"
October
2, Bridget O'Laughlin (Institute of Social
Studies at The Hague) "Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: Repositioning
Gender in Development Policy and Practice" (co-sponsored by
Anthropology Department)
October
6, No Meeting—Yom Kippur
October
13, Michel Kervin "Social Movements and
the Political Economy in El Salvador, 1975-2003"
November
10, Leanne Ussher "An Agent Based Model
of a Speculative Futures Market"
November 17, Claudio Puty "Sectoral
Mark-Ups in the U.S. Manufacturing, 1958-1996"
November
10, Giammario Impullitti—"Technology
Policy and Inequality"
December 8, Rex McKenzie
"Stylized Facts of the Jamaican Economy, 1952-2002"
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