February 11, 2008

Latin America's Political Shift: Is the Region Moving in a Positive Direction?

Joel Brinkley, former editor, reporter and Pulitzer Prize winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times and visiting professor of journalism at Stanford, and CEPR Co-director, Mark Weisbrot, discussed important political changes currently taking place in Latin America, and what they might mean for the future of the region and its relationship with the United States.

February 10, 2008

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

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

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?"