"GLOBALIZATION AND THE MYTHS OF FREE TRADE"
New School University presents a conference on
Friday, April 18, 2003 from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Conference part of the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz
Project in Markets, Equality and Democracy

(New York, NY – March 24, 2003) New School University's most prominent research center, the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA), and the Department of Economics at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, will present a conference on "Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade" on Friday, April 18, 2003 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at New School University, Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue, NYC. The conference aims at challenging the theoretical and empirical claims that underpin the current wave of globalization. It also questions the wisdom of the current drive to institute a worldwide system of unrestricted trade and capital flows. The topics that will be addressed during the conference include "Globalization and Free Trade," "Globalization and Economic Development," "Globalization, Gender and Inequality," and "Globalization, Capital Mobility and Competition." For more information, call (212) 229-5901. To RSVP for this free event, go to http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/.

Anwar Shaikh, Professor of Economics at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, remarked, "The WTO, the World Bank, and the IMF have been the driving forces behind the current wave of globalization. It is therefore striking to note that the IMF has just recently conceded that globalization has not helped poor countries. This conference brings together a distinguished set of economists who critically analyze globalization and its actual consequences".

Speakers for the conference will include Ajit Singh (Cambridge University), Andrew Glyn (Oxford University), Diane Elson (University of Essex), Lance Taylor (New School University), Deepak Nayyar (University of Delhi), Nilufer Cagatay (University of Utah), Branko Milanovic (World Bank), Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge University), John Weeks (School of Oriental and African Studies), Massoud Karshenas (School of Oriental and African Studies), Thomas Palley (Globalization Reform Project, Open Society Institute), Stephanie Seguino (University of Vermont), Sanjay Reddy (Barnard College, Columbia University), and Anwar Shaikh (New School University).

This program is part of the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Project in Markets, Equality and Democracy, a four-year project that includes a series of high profile public lectures, research workshops, scholarly books, doctoral dissertations and public policy briefs aimed at understanding the conditions under which the profit-seeking activities of private firms also serve broader social goals, including the creation of good jobs, the improvement of public health and education, the diffusion of socially-useful new technologies and the reduction of economic inequality.

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