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CEPA Events: Spring 2004
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
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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