CEPA Events: Fall 2003

CEPA events are free and open to the public, and they are usually held in the CEPA conference room, 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York City (unless noted otherwise). For further information, call CEPA at 212-229-5901 or write to cepa@newschool.edu.

• CEPA Workshop on Economic Policy
  Fall 2003 workshop titles, presenters, and downloads.
• Economics Department Seminars
  Fall 2003 seminar series is free and open to the public.
• Dissertation Workshop
  Full list of workshops discussing the development of thesis topics, thesis proposals and research methods.

A complete listing of workshop events will shortly be posted below.

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, September 17, 2003, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)
"The Scientific Dimensions of Social Knowledge and their Distant Echoes in 20th century American Philosophy of Science"
[Download PDF 160KB]

Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Jörg Huffschmid (University of Bremen)
"Economic Policy Obstacles to Full Employment and Social Cohesion in Europe" and "Better Institutions, Rules and Tools for Full Employment and Social Welfare in Europe."
[Download PDF 1—104KB, Download PDF 2—60KB]

Wednesday, October 15, 2003, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Amit Bhaduri
"An Alternative Approach to the Theory of Endogenous Growth"
[Download paper PDF 104KB]

Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 12:30 p.m.
Jörg Bilbow
"Pushing Germany Off the Cliff Edge—Spreading the 'German Disease'"
[A short version of his paper is available at the Levy Institute website at: http://www.levy.org/docs/pn/03-4.html]

Monday, October 27, 2003, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Bob Pollin (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
"Wage Bargaining and the U.S. Phillips Curve: Was Greenspan Right about 'Traumatized Workers' in the 1990s?" (co-sponsored by the Economics Department Seminar series)

Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Josh Bivens (Economic Policy Institute)
"Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Using Temporary Import Tariffs to Unwind the U.S. Current Account Deficit and Endow a Public Fund for Global Public Goods"

Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Heidi Hartman and Stephen Rose (Institute for Women's Policy Research)

Department Seminars

The Economics Department fall 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.

Monday, October 20, 6:30pm.
Joseph Stiglitz
"The Roaring Nineties" (Wollman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street)

Monday, October 27, 6:30pm.
Bob Pollin (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
"Wage Bargaining and the U.S. Phillips Curve: Was Greenspan Right about 'Traumatized Workers' in the 1990s?" [download PDF 112KB]
(co-sponsored by CEPA Workshops in Economic Policy)

Monday, December 1, 6:00pm.
Nicoli Mattrassi (University of Capetown)
"The Economics of AIDS Prevention and Treatment in Africa"
(co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science)

Thursday, December 4, 2-4pm. Room 300 65 Fifth Avenue
Gerard Dumenil
"Neoliberalism and Neoimperialism."
Gerard Dumenil has worked extensively with Dominique Levy on the political economy of contemporary capitalism from a Marxist standpoint. Their 1993 book, The Economics of the Profit Rate, is an excellent summary of contemporary theory and evidence on the profit rate. Dumenil and Levy's papers can be accessed through their web page: http://www.cepremap.ens.fr/levy

Dissertation Workshop

The Economics Department's dissertation workshop is designed to discuss the development of thesis topics, thesis proposals and research methods. All students are welcome to attend and students may present their research at any stage in its development. The workshops meet in the CEPA conference room at 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, on Mondays (and occasionally on another day) from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. If you would like to present your work, please contact Prof. Duncan Foley (foleyd@newschool.edu).

September 15, Duncan Foley, "What is a thesis?"

September 22, Massimiliano La Marca, "Real Exchange Rate, Competitiveness and Policy Implication: a Review of Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Applications."

September 29, Duncan Foley, "Thesis research and careers in Economics"

October 2, Bridget O'Laughlin (Institute of Social Studies at The Hague) "Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: Repositioning Gender in Development Policy and Practice" (co-sponsored by Anthropology Department)

October 6, No Meeting—Yom Kippur

October 13, Michel Kervin "Social Movements and the Political Economy in El Salvador, 1975-2003"

November 10, Leanne Ussher "An Agent Based Model of a Speculative Futures Market"

November 17, Claudio Puty "Sectoral Mark-Ups in the U.S. Manufacturing, 1958-1996"

November 10, Giammario Impullitti—"Technology Policy and Inequality"

December 8, Rex McKenzie "Stylized Facts of the Jamaican Economy, 1952-2002"