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Year: 2008
Dates: January 4 - 6, 2008
Location: New Orleans, LA
Panels:
- Friday, January 4 at 10:15am - The Plight of the Soldier
Chair: Thea Harvey, EPS
Executive Director.
- The All-volunteer Force and the Long War: When and How should
we Reinstitute Conscription? Lawrence Korb, Center for American
Progress
- The American Soldier: Carrying the Entire Load for the Bush
Administration? Major General Paul Eaton, United States Army
(retired)
- The Effect of Activation on the Post-Activation Earnings of
Reservists. David Loughran, RAND Corporation; Jacob Klerman,
Abt Associates
- Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan: Impediments to Securing
Disability Benefits and Medical Care. Linda Bilmes, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University
- Friday, January 4 at 2:30pm - A Roundtable on Climate Change,
Hurricane Katrina and Related Issues,
Chair: James Galbraith, EPS Chair.
- Paul Krugman, Princeton University
- Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University
- Howard Kunreuther, University of Pennsylvania
- Marcellus Andrews, Barnard College
- Saturday, January 5 at 2:30pm - The Future of the Defense
Budget
Chair:
Michael Lind, New America Foundation.
- Five Years of War: Reassessing the Economic Cost of Conflict
in Iraq. Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University; Linda
Bilmes, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- A Cost/Benefit Analysis of Large Military Budgets. Barbara
Bergmann, American University
- Weapons Systems that Don't Work for Threats that Don't Exist. Winslow Wheeler, Strauss Military Reform Project, Center for Defense
Information
- The Next Peace Dividend. Richard Kaufman, Bethesda Research
Institute
Annual Dinner:
Dinner honoring Paul Krugman
Saturday, January 5, 2008
6:30pm - 10:00pm
at the Sheraton New Orleans
Speakers will include: Sylvia Nasar, Maurice Obstfeld, and Joseph Stiglitz.
Host Committee: Honorary Co-chairs: Paul A. Samuelson
and Robert Solow; Chair: James K. Galbraith; Committee members: Dean Baker,
Michael A. Bernstein, Jagdish Bhagwati, Donald Davis, Brad DeLong, Jorge
Braga de Macedo, Avinash K. Dixit, Jeffrey Frankel, Gordon Hanson, Edward
(Monty) Graham, Pentti J.K. Kouri, Robert Z. Lawrence, Richard Medley,
Sylvia Nasar, Maurice Obstfeld, Anthony Venables, and David Warsh.
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