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Archive
of Past Events: Spring 2007
Will the Sky Fall? A National Policy Forum on the Future of the American and Global Economies (with The New America Foundation/American Strategy Program)
May 11, 2007 10:45 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
View the event program, webcast, and transcript
A Realistic Growth Policy for Our Times:
A Conference in Memory of David Gordon
Friday, April 13, 2007 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
View the program and papers presented
Spring
2007 Schwartz Lecture
Is the Sky Falling? Challenging the Conventional Economic Wisdom
A panel discussion presented by The New School and the Bernard Schwartz
Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA)
Friday, March 9, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
View the archived webcast of this event or Download a transcript of this event
Conventional wisdom suggests that the deficits are too high, personal savings rates too low, federal government spending is out of control, and too much of our debt is held by foreign governments. But do we know with any confidence when these imbalances become unsustainable? Do we have a realistic estimate of the true ‘tipping points’ or has a Chicken Little way of thinking clouded our view of America’s economic prospects? Will the popular remedies, such as cutting federal spending and trade protection, do more harm than good?
New School president Bob Kerrey and a group of prominent economists, business leaders, and policy shapers examine the conventional wisdom and discuss policies to enhance America’s economic prospects.
Participants included:
Brad DeLong, Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Larry Kudlow, host of CNBC's "Kudlow & Company"
Julie Kosterlitz, Staff Correspondent, National Journal
Bernard Schwartz, Chairman and CEO of BLS Investments, LLC and
Retired Chairman and CEO, Loral Space & Communications
Dr. Robert J. Shapiro, Chairman, Sonecon, LLC and former Under Secretary of Commerce
Robert Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics, MIT and
Nobel Prize Winner
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Spring
2007 Lecture
Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism
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Philip Mirowski
University of Notre Dame
"The Neoliberal Agenda for the Future of Science"
February 1, 2007
The New School
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Join us for the second annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture. Heilbroner wrote, “Capitalism’s uniqueness in history lies in its continuously self-generated change, but it is this very dynamism that is the system’s chief enemy.” It is in appreciation of what he identified as “the deep human need to be situated with respect to the future” that The New School sponsors a lecture series in Heilbroner’s memory that focuses on capitalism’s future. This year's lecture features Philip Mirowski, Carl Koch Chair of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.
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:
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted)
PLACE: 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th floor conference room
February 7
12:30 p.m.
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, The New School
“The Political Economy of Genetically Modified Seeds”
Download a flyer and a brief about the book.
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February 14
*12:10 p.m.
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Ted Marmor, Yale University
“Myths of Modernization: Medicare and Social Security”
(*Note: Joint session with Milano. Held at 72 Fifth Ave. 3rd Fl., Henry Cohen Conference Room from 12:10-1:30 p.m.*) |
February 21
12:30 p.m.
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Jerry Epstein, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
“Central Banks as Agents of Economic Development"
Download the paper
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February 28
12:30 p.m.
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Christina Leijonhufvud, JP Morgan Chase
“Financial Globalization and its Impact on Developing Countries”
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March 7
*2:00 p.m.
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Hans Helmut Kotz, Deutsche Bundesbank and Freiburg University"Macroeconomic Policy in EMU: Institutional Design and Current Issues"
(*Note: This workshop will take place from 2:00-3:30 p.m.)
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March 14
*12:10 p.m.
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Marcellus Andrews, Center for Economic Policy Research
"Blackness and the Economics of Self-Defense: A Meditation on Economic Conflict and Development after the Death of New Orleans, in the Shadow of Permanent Conservative Rule and Racial Cold War"
(*Note: Joint session with Milano. Held at 72 Fifth Ave. 3rd Fl., Henry Cohen Conference Room from 12:10-1:30 p.m.*)
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March 28
12:30 p.m.
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Robert Brenner, UCLA
"Prosperity and Stagnation in the World Economy:
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"
(*Note: This workshop will meet at 80 5th Ave. Room G802)
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April 4
12:30 p.m.
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Sandra Polaski, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“CGE Trade Models and Their Policy Implications”
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