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Events
The Schwartz Center Lecture Series
The Schwartz Center Lecture Series consists of two annual lectures: The Irene
& Bernard L. Schwartz Lecture and The Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism. The Schwartz lecture is designed to contribute to
and influence the debate over crucial policy issues facing the U.S.
and world economies by bringing a distinguished speaker or panel
to address the University. Past speakers have included Paul Krugman,
Robert Rubin Amartya Sen, and Laura Tyson. The Heilbroner Memorial Lecture is an annual lecture in Heilbroner’s memory that focuses on capitalism’s future. Last year's lecture featured James K. Galbraith.
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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Join us for the third 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 we will host Stephen Marglin, Walter S. Barker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and author of The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like An Economist Undermines Community (Harvard University Press).
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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)
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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.
Current participants include:
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
This event took place on Friday, March 9, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
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