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Events
Archive
of Past Events: Fall 2004
Economic
Policy Workshops
Economic Policy
Workshops are held throughout the academic year and aim to promote
discussion of contemporary policy and applied research issues. The
Workshop runs in a seminar style, with the presentation followed
by questions and discussion. Workshops are open to the public and
background research papers are usually posted on the website in
advance of the Workshop.
TIME: 6 -
7:30 p.m.
PLACE: 80 Fifth Ave, Fifth floor conference room.
October 13th:
Carl Wennderlind, Barnard College, "Credit in African Bodies: How
the Slave Trade Contributed to the Financial Revolution."
October 20th:
Amit Bhaduri, University of Pavia, "The Dynamics of Different Regimes
of Demand-Led Expansion."
[Download
DOC-106KB]
November
3rd: Economic Implications of the Election: A Roundtable Jeff
Madrick, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis Anwar Shaikh,
Department of Economics Darick Hamilton, Milano School
November
10th: Matias Vernengo, University of Utah: "Globalization and
Endogenous Fiscal Crisis: Theory and the Brazilian Experience."
November
11th: Nelson Barbosa, University of Rio de Janeiro, "Brazil's
Macroeconomy Under Lula."
December
8th: Ed Wolff, New York University and Ajit Zacharias, Levy
Institute, "An Overall Assessment of the Distributional Consequences
of Government Spending and Taxation in the U.S., 1989 and 2000"
[Download
PDF—515KB]
December
15th: Mariana Mazzucato, Open University, "Idiosyncratic Risk,
Excess volatility and Innovation."
Schwartz Center
events are free and open to the public. Most events are held in
the CEPA conference room at 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York
City, unless otherwise noted. Directions the Schwartz Center are
available here. To sign
up for event notifications, click here.
Fall
2004 Economics Department Seminar Series
| September
20th |
Labor
Market Reforms in Europe
Ekkehard Ernst (European Central Bank, Frankfurt) |
| October
4th |
Involuntary
Unempolyment
Michel De Vreoy (University of Louvain) |
| October
11th |
Credit
Rationing and Financial Exclusion
in the age of Globalization
Gary Dymski (UC Riverside) |
| October
18th |
Volatility
& Growth: The Role of Financial Development
Philippe Aghion (Harvard University) |
| October
25th |
How
Trust Really Works in High Performance Work Organization
Eileen Appelbaum (Rutgers University) |
| November
22nd |
Uncertain
Climate Thresholds and Economic Growth
Klaus Keller, (Penn State University and Princeton) |
December
14th
TUESDAY |
Implicitly
Defined Dynamical Systems in Economics
Alfredo Medio (2:30pm)
Computational Methods for the Analysis of dynamics in Economic
Models
Marji Lines (6 pm) |
December
15th
WEDNESDAY |
Radical
Innovations and Stock Price Volatility:
An Industry Level Study
Mariana Mazzucato (Open University, London)
This Seminar Co-Sponsored by the Schwartz Center for Economic
Policy Analysis |
Pension
Fund Capitalism
and the Crisis of Old-Age Security in the United States
September 10-11,
2004.
The conference
served to deepen our understanding of the role of private pensions
in the U.S. economy. Its specific aim was to bring progressives
- economists, political scientists and sociologists, union representatives,
shareholder activists, lawyers, and sympathetic members of the money
management industry - together to look at current problems in pension
provision and to come up with alternatives. The goal of the conference
was be to generate new, original thinking about pension provision
and pension reform.
The conference
explored three propositions. First, that the existing commercial
provision of pensions offers a window into crucial relationships
in today's financial regime and hence deserves more systematic and
critical study in its own right. Second, that the prevailing mix
of public and private programs will not be adequate to furnish a
decent retirement income to every American. Third, that in order
to reach this goal it will be necessary both to find new sources
of finance and to introduce real accountability into the existing
pension and mutual fund industry.
Conference Program
(Downloadable papers are in blue)
Friday, September
10, 2004
8:30am: Opening
remarks
Ben Lee,
Dean, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School
University
9:00am: Keynote
Address
Robin Blackburn,
New School University
10:30am: Coffee
break
10:45am: Theoretical
Considerations
Gerard
Dumenil, MODEM, University Paris X-Nanterre,
"Pensions Funds: Trends in the Ownership of the Means of Production"
[Download
PDF—300KB]
Frederic
Lordon, CEPREMAP,
"Managers in the Hands of Investors: Where Does 'The Power of
Finance' Really Come From?" [Download
DOC—69KB]
Tom Michl,
Colgate College, "Capitalist, Workers, Social Security" [Download
PDF—188KB]
12:45pm: Lunch
break
2:00pm: Macroeconomic
Considerations
Jane D'Arista,
New School University,
"Pension Funds: The Need for a Macroprudential Framework"
[Download
DOC—162KB]
John Eatwell,
Cambridge University,
"Pensions, Fiscal Policy, and the Distribution of Risk"
[Download
DOC—69KB]
Christian
Weller, American Progress Institute,
"Institutional Shareholder Concentration, Corporate Governance
Changes, and Diverging Fortunes of Capital and Labor"
[Download
DOC—407KB]
4:00pm: Coffee
break
4:15pm: Financial
Market Considerations
Randall
Dodd, Financial Policy Forum, "Pension Fund Capitalism: The
Need for Derivatives and Hedge Fund Regulation"
Tessa Hebb,
Oxford University, "Global Standards and Emerging Markets: the
institutional investment value chain and CalPERS' investment strategy"
[Download
DOC—188KB]
5:45pm: Wine/cheese
Saturday,
September 11, 2004
9:00am: Pensions
and Retirement
Teresa
Ghilarducci, Notre Dame University, "Employer Pension Reform
and the Future of Retirement" [Download
DOC—103KB]
Edward
Wolff, New York University, "The Unraveling of the American
Pension System, 1983-2001" [Download
PDF—250KB]
10:30am: Coffee
break
10:45am: Pension
Fund Socialism
David Brennan,
Franklin and Marshall College, "'Fiduciary Capitalism,' the Political
Model of Corporate Governance, and the Prospect of Stakeholder
Capitalism in the US" [Download
PDF—298KB]
Doug Henwood,
Left Business Observer, "Pension Fund Socialism: an Illusion that
Just Won't Die"
Jim Stanford,
Canadian Automobile Workers Union, "Controlling Pensions or Controlling
Capital?" [Download
PPT—228KB]
12:45pm: Lunch
break
2:00pm: Encounters
with History and Reform
Mark Harvey,
University of Manchester, "The Historical Formation of Resources,
Rights, and Rights-Holders: The Example of Pensions" [Download
DOC—154KB]
Matthieu
Leimgruber, University of Lausanne, "A Closer Look at the
World Bank Model: Unpacking the Swiss Three-Pillar Pension System"
[Download
PDF—395KB]
3:30pm Coffee
break
3:45pm: General
Discussion directed by Robin Blackburn
5:45pm: End
of conference
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