| Panel Session 1: The Plight of the Soldier |
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Chair: Thea Harvey, Economists for Peace and Security |
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Participants: |
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Lawrence Korb, Center for American
Progress
The All-volunteer Force and the Long War: When and How should
we Reinstitute Conscription? |
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Major General Paul Eaton, United States Army
(retired)
The American Soldier: Carrying the Entire Load for the Bush
Administration? |
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David Loughran, RAND Corporation; Jacob Klerman,
Abt Associates
The Effect of Activation on the Post-Activation Earnings of
Reservists. |
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Linda Bilmes, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University
Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan: Impediments to Securing
Disability Benefits and Medical Care |
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Panel Session 2: A Roundtable on
Climate Change,
Hurricane Katrina and Related Issues, |
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Chair: James K. Galbraith, University of Texas at Austin and Economists for Peace and Security |
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Participants:
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Paul Krugman, Princeton University |
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Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University |
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Howard Kunreuther, University of Pennsylvania |
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Marcellus Andrews, Barnard College |
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| Panel Session 3: The Future of the Defense
Budget |
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Chair: Michael Lind, New America Foundation |
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Particpants: |
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Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University; Linda
Bilmes, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Five Years of War: Reassessing the Economic Cost of Conflict
in Iraq |
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Barbara
Bergmann, American University
A Cost/Benefit Analysis of Large Military Budgets |
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Winslow Wheeler, Strauss Military Reform Project, Center for Defense
Information
Weapons Systems that Don't Work for Threats that Don't Exist |
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Richard Kaufman, Bethesda Research
Institute
The Next Peace Dividend |
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| Annual Dinner |
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EPS Annual Dinner honoring Paul Krugman | |
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Speakers:
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James K. Galbraith, Maurice Obstfeld,
and Joseph Stiglitz
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To w atch a video of the dinner, click here
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