ASSA/AEA meetings 2009 - San Francisco, California

Inequality: Economic, Fiscal and Financial, and Societal Dimensions

Saturday, January 3 at 10:15am in the Hilton Union Square Rooms 15 and 16

Presiding: Allen Sinai, Chief Global Economist, Decision Economics, Inc.

Presenters and papers:

• James K. Galbraith, Professor of Economics, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Policy, University of Texas - Austin
  Inequality, Unemployment, and Growth
• Robert J. Gordon, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University and NBER
  Rising Inequality at the Bottom and Top
• Benjamin M. Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
  Widening Inequality: Implications for the Economy and Society
• David A. Smith, Chief Economist, House Financial Services Committee, House of Representatives, U.S. Congress
  Inequality and the Making of Monetary Policy

Discussants:  Inequality, Fiscal and Financial Aspects, Policy Possibilities

• Allen Sinai, Decision Economics, Inc.
• Jeffrey Madrick, Challenge Magazine

Roundtable on Global Security and the Global Financial System: The Challenges Ahead

Sunday, January 4 at 2:30pm in the Hilton Union Square Rooms 15 and 16

Presiding: Michael Intriligator, University of California at Los Angeles and Economists for Peace and Security

Presenters:

• Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University
• Lawrence Klein, University of Pennsylvania
• William Sharpe, Stanford University
• Michael Lind, New America Foundation
• Linda Bilmes, Harvard University
  

EPS 20th Anniversary Gala Dinner honoring Kenneth Arrow and Lawrence Klein

Sunday, January 4 at 6:30pm in the Hilton Imperial A Room

Host Committee:
Chaired by Michael Intriligator
Theodore Anderson, Marcel Arsenault, Jurgen Brauer, Dagobert  Brito, Manas Chatterji, Larry  Chimerine, Robert  Coen, Partha Dasgupta, Phoebus Dhrymes, Avinash  Dixit, Jacques Fontanel, Vic Fuchs, Sergiu Hart, Bert Hickman, Mordecai Kurz, Lawrence Lau, Jeffrey Liebman, Bob Litan, Kanta Marwah, Paul Milgrom, Roger Myerson, Nathan Rosenberg, Andrei Roudoi, Herbert Scarf, Carl Schramm, Thomas Sheetz, Eytan Sheshinski, Allen  Sinai, Bob Summers, E. Roy Weintraub, and Gavin Wright  

Thanks to support from the One Earth Future Foundation we are able to offer tickets at a substantial discount.
Tickets are $75; $50 for EPS members who register before December 19; $20 for students.
To register, please email Thea Harvey (theaharvey@epsusa.org)