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Event information:
THE NEXT AMERICAN ECONOMY
Debating How to Spur Innovation, Growth, and Jobs
September 30, 2010 4:00pm-6:00pm
Harvard University
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Bldg.
Room S-010, Concourse Level
1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
What do the best projections tell us about growth, employment, and sources of economic innovation over the next one to two decades—and what public policies can spur improved outcomes for all Americans? The Network has commissioned four scholars and policy experts to present findings and debate policies—at a public event to be held at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. This event is co-sponsored by Harvard's Center for American Political Studies
Panel of Speakers
Martin N. Baily
Brookings Institution
The New Economy and the Growth Challenge for the United StatesRichard B. Freeman
Harvard University and NBER
Can We Fix the Broken US Economic Model?James K. Galbraith
University of Texas, Austin
The Future of the American EconomyLawrence Mishel
Economic Policy Institute
Not to Worry: A Skeptic's Look at Structural Problems in the Labor Market
This event is free and open to the public. Registration not required. For more information, contact Abby Peck by phone at 617-496-0966 or by email at peck@wjh.harvard.edu.
A USA Today Best Book of 2008.
The Nation's Most Valuable Book on Economics of 2008.
"Shows how to break the spell that conservatives have cast over the minds of liberals (and everyone else) for many years." -- Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (2001)
"James Galbraith elegantly and effectively counters the economic fundamentalism that has captured public discourse in recent years, and offers a cogent guide to the real political economy. Myth-busting, far-ranging, and eye-opening." -- Robert B. Reich, Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley
"With a combination of erudition, insight, and wit worthy of John Kenneth Galbraith, Thorstein Veblen, and John Maynard Keynes, James K. Galbraith offers a critique of the conventional unwisdom about the economy that is as compelling as it is provocative." -- Michael Lind, Whitehead Senior Fellow at The New America Foundation and author of The American Way of Strategy
"James Galbraith has written an extremely challenging book. Although its principal target is conservative economics, it is no less critical of conventional liberalism. Galbraith correctly recognizes that today both approaches are intellectually bankrupt and incapable of addressing the nation's pressing economic problems. I hope The Predator State stimulates needed debate among both liberals and conservatives on the mistakes both sides have made that have gotten us to where we are now."-- Bruce Bartlett, author of Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy
