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Events
Archive
of Past Events: Spring 2004
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,
February 4, 2004, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Thomas Palley (Open Society Institute)
"The Economics of Deflation." [Download
DOC—152 KB]
Thomas I.
Palley, Director of the Globalization Reform Project of the Open
Society Institute (OSI), has published extensively in numerous
academic journals, writing on a wide range of subjects. Palley
was assistant director of public policy for the AFL-CIO, where
he was responsible for managing a team of economists who contributed
to developing policy positions on a range of domestic and international
economic matters. In addition, as assistant director he played
a lead role in communicating AFL-CIO economic policy positions
to union leadership and the media, the administration, Congress,
international policy making organizations, and the international
trade union movement.
Wednesday,
February 18, 2004, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Peter Skott (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
"Steindlian Models of Growth and Stagnation." [Download
PDF—324 KB]
Peter Skott
is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, having previously held positions at the University of
Aarhus and the University of Copenhagen. He has been a visiting
professor at University of Notre Dame and EuroFaculty Vilnius
and honorary research fellow at University College London. Hi
main research interests are in macroeconomic dynamics. He is the
author of Conflict and Effective Demand in Economic Growth (Cambridge
University Press, 1989) and Kaldor’s Growth and Distribution
Theory (Peter Lang Verlag, 1989), and has published in a variety
of journals, including Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
Cambridge Journal of Economics, International Economic Review,
Economic Journal, Manchester School, Metroeconomica, Journal of
Post Keynesian Economics, Kyklos and Oxford Economic Papers.
Wednesday,
March 3, 2004, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Jose Antonio Ocampo (United Nations Undersecretary
for Economic and Social Affairs and Executive Secretary of the Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean)
"Structural Dynamics and Economic Growth in Developing Countries."
[Download
PDF—164 KB]
José
Antonio Ocampo is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for
Economic and Social Affairs. He is also Executive Secretary of
the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)].
Earlier in his career, Mr. Ocampo held a number of posts in the
Government of Colombia, including those of Minister of Finance
and Public Credit, Director of the National Planning Department
and Minister of Agriculture. His academic pursuits have
included service as Director of the Foundation for Higher Education
and Development, Professor of Economics at the Universidad de
los Andes and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Visiting
Professor at Cambridge, Yale and Oxford Universities. Mr. Ocampo
obtained his doctorate in economics from Yale University and has
been honoured with the Alejandro Angel Escobar National Science
Award. He is the author of numerous books and articles on
macroeconomic policy and theory, economic development, international
trade and economic history.
Wednesday,
March 31, 2004, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Heide Hartmann and Stephen Rose (Institute for
Women's Policy Research)
"Still a Man's Labor Market: The Long-Term Earnings Gap"
Heidi Hartmann
is the director of the Washington-based Institute for Women's
Policy Research, a scientific research organization on policy
issues of importance to women. Dr. Hartmann founded IWPR in 1987
as a non-profit organization to meet the need for women-centered,
policy-oriented research. IWPR works with policy makers, scholars,
and organizations around the country to design, execute, and disseminate
research findings that illuminate policy issues affecting women
and families. In 1994, Dr. Hartmann was the recipient of a MacArthur
Fellowship Award for her work in the field of women and economics.
Dr. Hartmann has co-authored several reports, including The
Impact of Social Security Reform on Women, Unnecessary Losses:
Costs to Americans of the Lack of Family and Medical Leave,
Women's Access to Health Insurance, and Combining Work
and Welfare: An Alternative Anti-Poverty Strategy. Additionally,
she has authored or co-authored numerous journal articles on issues,
such as welfare reform, pay equity and women's wages.
Wednesday,
April 14, 2004, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Jean Claude Barbier (Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique)
"Activation of social protection systems in Europe."
Jean Claude
Barbier specialises in comparative research: social policies,
employment policies, welfare systems and social protection, including
research about the EU-building and -social policies, notably the
various open methods of coordination. [Download Barbier's paper:
"The
European Employment Strategy: a channel for activating social
protection?"]
CANCELLED—Wednesday,
April 21, 2004, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Eileen Applebaum (Rutgers University and Director
of the Center for Women and Work)
"Social Capital in the Workplace: Trust, Knowledge, Sharing,
and Citizenship Behaviors Among the Machinists." [Download
PDF 684KB]
Wednesday,
April 28, 2004, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Le Anh Tu Packard (Institute for Indochina Studies)
"Empirical Findings on the Effects of External Liberalization
Policies in Vietnam"
Le Anh Tu
Packard is currently senior technical advisor to Vietnam's Ministry
of Finance on a World Bank-supported project to conduct diagnostic
audits of the country's largest state-owned enterprises. She is
also senior advisor to the Government of Ethiopia on UNDP-supported
programs to implement the Sustainable Development Poverty Reduction
Programme (SDPRP) for Ethiopia. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College
and Columbia University, she has held senior economist positions
at The WEFA Group (formerly Wharton Econometrics) and Chase Econometrics.
Her consulting engagements, which include World Bank and UNDP
technical assistance missions to transition economies in Asia
and the Middle East, focus on the Public Investment Program (PIP),
poverty reduction strategies, gender issues, the effects of external
liberalization on economic performance and social policy implications,
and state enterprise financial and industry analysis.
Wednesday,
May 5, 2004, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Robert Blecker and Arslan Razmi (American
University)
"Empirical
Tests for a Fallacy of Composition in Developing Country Exports
of Manufacturers"
Robert
A. Blecker is a professor of economics at American University
and has research affiliations with the Economic Policy Institute
(EPI) and Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), all
in Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford
University and his B.A. in economics from Yale University. He
is the author of Taming Global Finance (EPI, 1999) and co-author
of Fundamentals of U.S. Foreign Trade Policy (Westview, 2003),
as well as numerous other books and articles.
Arslan Razmi is a doctoral candidate in economics at American
University and will be an assistant professor of economics at
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, starting in fall 2004.
He received his M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. He
is currently working on a dissertation on balance of payments-related
constraints on the growth of developing countries, one essay of
which will be the basis for this seminar presentation.
Irene
and Bernard L. Schwartz Lecture Series
CANCELLED—Thursday,
February 19, 2004 | 6:00 pm
N.Y. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Peter Peterson of the Blackstone
Group, and Ron Blackwell of the AFL-CIO on "Business Ethics
After Enron."
This program will be rescheduled, probably in Fall 2004.
More
on Schwartz Lectures
Thursday,
Apil 22, 2004 | 6:00 pm
Nobel laureate, economist Amartya Sen speaks on "The
Content of Democracy,"
reflecting upon his most recent work on the relation between democracy,
human capabilities and economic development.
Sen is Lamont
University Professor Emeritus and adjunct professor of Population
and International Health at Harvard University. His work is in development
economics, the study of welfare of the world's poorest people. He
has studied the Bangladesh famine of 1975 and other catastrophes
in India, Bangladesh and the countries of the Sahara.
New School
President Kerrey will moderate the event, which is free and
open to the public. Provost Arjun Appadurai and Graduate
Faculty Dean, Richard Bernstein, will be the respondents.
Department
Seminar
The Economics
Department spring 2004 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, 6:00-7:30 pm.
Monday,
February 9, 2004
Mario Cogoy
"On the Economic Logic of Eco-Efficiency and Recycling"
Monday,
February 23, 2004
Justin Wolfers (Stanford University)
"What Do Financial Markets Think About War in Iraq?"
Monday,
March 1, 2004
Frederic Mishkin (Columbia University)
"Getting Globalization Right"
Monday,
March 15, 2004
Peter Flaschel (Bielefeld University)
"Wage and Price Dynamics in a Baseline Keynesian Model"
April 8,
2004
Masanao Aoki (UCLA and Chuo University)
"Explaining Sluggish Responses in Macroeconomics"
April 26,
2004, 2:30 pm:
CANCELLED—Ernst
Welteke (President of German Bundesbank)
"The Future of the Euro"
Dissertation
Workshops
The Dissertation
Workshop meets Mondays from 6:00 - 7:30 [except where noted differently]
when the Department Seminar does not meet. Schedule for Spring,
2004:
Tuesday,
January 27, 2004, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Linda Bailey (job candidate)
Thursday,
January 29, 2004, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Amy Gignesi (job candidate)
Monday,
February 2, 2004, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Duncan Foley—General Orientation for Ph.D.
Students—All Ph.D. students are encouraged to attend
Thursday,
February 5, 2004, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Woojin Lee (job candidate)
Tuesday,
February 10, 2004, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Lois Joy (job candidate)
"Gender Differences in Higher Education Outcomes."
March 5-6,
2004
Joint New School/UMass Wokshop in Amherst
Tuesday,
April 8, 2004
Masahiro Aoki (UCLA and Chuo University)
"Explaining Sluggish Responses in Macroeconomics"
Tuesday,
April 12, 2004, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
David Barkin
"Alternative Approaches to Globalization"
Monday,
May 10, 2004, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Rex McKenzie
"Political Economy of the Plantation Economy"
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