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Archive
of Past Events: Spring 2008
Spring
2008 Lecture
Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism
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Stephen A. Marglin
Harvard University
"How Thinking Like An Economist Undermines Community "
February 14, 2008
The New School
6:00 p.m.
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When Will African Economies Develop?
Friday, May 2, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
The New School
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building
65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street).
Admission: Free; seating is limited.
RSVP required to scepa@newschool.edu or 212.229.5717 x3044.
Conference Program
This conference will explore the connections among intersecting domestic, global, economic, and political forces that constrain economic development in sub-Saharan Africa.
A keynote speech on "From Maladjusted States to Developmental States" will be given by Thandika Mkandawire, director of the UN Research Institute for Social Development and author of Our Continent Our Future.
Related Paper
PANELISTS:
Kwesi Botchwey, professor of development economics, Tufts University and executive chairman, African Development Policy Ownership Initiative. He is the author of Financing African Development.
Richard Kozul-Wright, senior economist, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and author of The Resistable Rise of Market Fundamentalism: Rethinking Development Policy in an Unbalanced World.
Carol Lancaster, associate professor of politics at the School of Foreign Service with a joint appointment in the Department of Government. She is also director of the Mortara Center for International Studies. She is the author of Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics.
Berhanu Nega, former mayor of Addis Ababa and political prisoner, now visiting professor of economics at Bucknell University.
Nicolas Van de Walle, professor of International Studies, director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, and author of African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis.
Leonard Wantchekon, professor of politics and economics, NYU, and author of The Paradox of 'Warlord' Democracy: A Theoretical Investigation.
Presented by the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis and Project Africa.
Economic Policy Workshops
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: 79 Fifth Avenue (entrance at 6 East 16 Street), Room 909
February 6
12:30 p.m.
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Francisco Rodriguez, Wesleyan University
"Cleaning Up the Kitchen Sink: Growth Empirics when the World is Not Simple"
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*February 19
12:30 p.m.
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Mary O'Sullivan, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Regulating Corporate Governance in the United States: Energized
Government, Attenuated Politics"
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March 12
12:30 p.m. |
Janet Gornick, CUNY and the Luxembourg Income Study
"Older Women’s Income and Wealth Packages: The Five-Legged Stool in Cross-National Perspective"
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*March 27
12:30 p.m.
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Robert Boyer, CEPREMAP and CNRS
"Assessing the Impact of Fair Value Upon Financial Crises"
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April 2
12:30 p.m.
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Robert Blecker, American University
“Stolper-Samuelson After Kalecki: International Trade and Income Distribution with Oligopolistic Mark-Ups and Partial Pass-Through"
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April 9
*12:10 p.m.
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Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School and SCEPA
"Economic Policy in Aging Societies"
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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