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  1. Education and Human Development: What are the Questions?

    Featuring Anurag Behar, Roger Benjamin, James Heckman, and Richard Reeves

    Apr 11, 2014 | 09:00—10:45

  2. Secular Stagnation? The Future Challenge for Economic Policy

    Featuring Lawrence H. Summers

    Apr 11, 2014 | 03:15—05:00

  3. The Environment and Innovation: What Are The Real Costs?

    Featuring Thomas Heller, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Amartya Sen, and Peter Victor

    Apr 11, 2014 | 12:45—02:15

  4. Beyond Austerity: Default, Debt Restructuring or Recovery?

    Featuring Karl Aiginger, Nelson Henrique Barbosa Filho, Ulrich Hege, Brett House, and Arturo O’Connell

    Apr 10, 2014 | 07:00—08:30

  5. Reflexivity and Knightean Uncertainty: Implications for Economics

    Featuring Roman Frydman, Cars Hommes, and Alex Rosenberg

    Apr 10, 2014 | 02:45—04:00

  6. Speculation and Innovation

    Featuring Steven Fazzari, William Janeway, Peter Jungen, and Ramana Nanda

    Apr 10, 2014 | 04:15—05:30

  7. Conference paper

    Pressures on Pensions

    By Teresa Ghilarducci

    Apr 2014

    Debate about the pension crises has centered on certain questions such as: Are greedy government workers bankrupting states? Arepension-slashing politicians backed by big money saving the day? Or do the budget problems of state and localgovernments have more to do with wasteful corporate subsidies than pensions? What are the real policy solutions to the pressures placed on pensions?”

  8. Conference paper

    Toward an Intellectual History of Uncertainty

    By Angus Burgin

    Apr 2014

    Economists discussing the problem of radical uncertainty commonly invoke Frank Knight’s classic definition in Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, but only rarely venture to explore the broader contours of his argument.

  9. Conference paper

    The Economics of Cyberwar

    By Steven Bellovin

    Apr 2014

    Cyberwar is very much in the news these days. It is tempting to try to understand the economics of such an activity, if only qualitatively. What effort is required? What can such attacks accomplish? What does this say, if anything,about the likelihood of cyberwar?

  10. Cyber War, Cyber Space: National Security and Privacy in the Global Economy

    Featuring Steven Bellovin, Yvo Desmedt, Amir Herzberg, and Bart Preneel

    Apr 10, 2014 | 12:45—02:15

  11. Innovation and Globalization: Playing Catch-up v. Pushing the Frontier

    Featuring Diego Comin, Lisa de Propris, Marjo Koivisto, and William Lazonick

    Apr 10, 2014 | 06:00—07:30

  12. Integration, Currency Unions, and Balance of Payments

    Featuring Bill Mitchell, Peter Temin, and Martin Wolf

    Apr 10, 2014 | 09:00—10:45

  13. Explorations in New Economic Thinking

    Featuring Laura DeNardis, John Knubley, and Nii Quaynor

    Apr 10, 2014 | 11:00—12:30

  14. Pressures on Pensions

    Featuring Teresa Ghilarducci, Tim Jenkinson, Richard Ravitch, and William Robson

    Apr 10, 2014 | 07:00—08:30

  15. The Economics of Radical Uncertainty

    Featuring Angus Burgin, Paul Ormerod, and Eric Weinstein

    Apr 10, 2014 | 11:00—12:30