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February 10, 2008

Latin America’s New Political and Economic Independence: Implications for a Multi-Polar World

The Berkeley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship sponsored a talk with Mark Weisbrot.

February 1, 2008

Why the World Isn't Flat: The Truth About Globalization and the Secret History of Capitalism

CEPR Senior Research Associate, Ha-Joon Chang takes aim at unfettered capitalism and free trade in his new book, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. The New America Foundation and CEPR co-sponsored a book event with Ha-Joon, later airing on C-SPAN's BookTV.

January 24, 2008

Americans United for Change and the Bush Legacy Project sponsored a forum on "The Bush Legacy: The State of our Union Then and Now" at the National Press Club. Invited speakers included Dean Baker, Brad Woodhouse, Diane Archer and Daniel Weiss. For photos and the speakers' Power Point presentations, see the event website.

January 17, 2008

An Assessment of the First Two Years of the Morales Administration in Bolivia

Mr. Guevara Ávila, Director General of Bilateral Relations, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia, discussed the achievements and results of the first two years, with a focus on the draft new Constitution, approved just last month by the Constitutional Assembly.

January 5, 2008

AEA Annual Meeting

The American Economic Association held it's annual meeting in New Orleans from the 4th to the 6th of January in New Orleans, LA. Several economists affiliated with CEPR, including Randy Albelda and Marcellus Andrews participated in the conference, together with co-director, Dean Baker. For more information, please consult the AEA website.

November 30, 2007

Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution at Home and Abroad: A New Geometry of Power?

This one-day event brought together scholars, politicians, and filmmakers from across the political spectrum to consider the challenges, liabilities, and potential of the government of Venezuela under the leadership of President Hugo Chávez. CEPR Co-director Mark Weisbrot talked about Venezuelan domestic policy. The discussion was moderated by Gil Joseph (Yale University) and included Sujatha Fernandez (Queens College, SUNY) and Francisco Rodriguez (Wesleyan University). For more information, please visit the website of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale.

November 27, 2007

A Good Job is Hard to Find

On November 27, John Schmitt, Senior Economist of CEPR, and Stephen J.Rose, Principal of Rose Economic Consulting, debated how a diminishing number of good jobs effects the strength of the US economy. Are these findings a cause for alarm? What, if anything, can the government do to reverse this trend?

November 9, 2007

The Housing Bubble: We Were Warned

Dean Baker was keynote speaker at the 24th annual meeting of the JOBS NOW Coalition. For more information, please visit the JOBS NOW website.

October 24, 2007

Copyrights: Do They Have a Future in the Internet Age?

Copyrights have been one of the main mechanisms for financing creative and artistic work for centuries. However, the development of digital technology and the internet has brought about growing legal and practical challenges to copyrights. This debate between Dean Baker, Co-director of CEPR, and Gerard Colby, President of the National Writer's Union, answered the following question: "Are copyrights still useful or should we look to alternative mechanisms to support creative and artistic work?"

October 23, 2007

Bank of the South: An Alternative to the IMF and World Bank

Washington, DC

With Rodrigo Cabezas, Minister of Finance in Venezuela and Gustavo Guzman, Ambassador of Bolivia to the United States

Latin America has experienced an unprecedented long-term economic growth failure over the last quarter-century, at the same time that it has implemented a number of economic policies advocated by the IMF and World Bank. In recent years, the electorate in a number of countries has voted to reject these policies and has elected governments with an explicit mandate to change course on economic policy. These governments have been looking toward and in some cases implementing alternative economic strategies, including regional economic integration. This year, the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, and now Colombia, have decided to form a new "Banco del Sur" as an alternative to the IMF, World Bank, and allied institutions. It is scheduled to be launched on December 9th. Minister Cabezas and Ambassador Guzman joined us to discuss the Bank of the South.

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