Bretton Woods Program

Robert A. Johnson - Executive Director, Institute for New Economic Thinking

The Emerging Economic and Political Order: What Lies Ahead? 

Moderator: Anatole Kaletsky - Associate Editor, The Times

Panelists:
Jean-Paul Fitoussi - Professor of Economics,  Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.
Harold James - Professor of History, Princeton University
Kenneth Rogoff - Professor of Economics, Harvard University
George Soros - Chairman, Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Foundations

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Bretton Woods Historical Review: James Boughton - International Monetary Fund - Historian

Keynote: Summers and Wolf

Introduction of Keynote Speaker:  Robert A. Johnson - Executive Director, Institute for New Economic Thinking

A conversation on New Economic Thinking with Martin Wolf - Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times and Keynote Address by Larry Summers - Former Director of the White House National Economic Council

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What Can We learn from the Past in Designing the Future?

Moderator: Alan Murray - Deputy Managing Editor and Executive Editor, Wall Street Journal

Panelists:
Paul Davidson - Co-Founder,  Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.
Barry Eichengreen - Professor of Economics and Political Science , University of California Berkeley
Robert Skidelsky - Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, The University of Warwick.
Leanne Ussher - Assistant Professor of Economics, The City University of New York

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Getting Back on Track: Macroeconomic Management After a Financial Crisis

Moderator: Paul Jenkins - Distinguished Fellow , Centre for International Governance Innovation

Panelists:
Duncan Foley - New School for Social Research.
Richard Koo - Chief Economist, Nomura Research Institute
Mario Seccareccia- Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa.
Alan Taylor - Professor of Economics, University of California and Morgan Stanley.

Discussants:  
Carmen Reinhart - Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
John Smithin - Professor of Economics, York University

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Keynote: Gordon Brown
Introduction of Keynote Speaker and Moderator: Robert Skidelsky - Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, The University of Warwick

Keynote Speaker: Gordon Brown - Former British Prime Minister, United Kingdom

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Sovereignty and Institutional Design in the Global Age: The Global Market and the Nation States

Moderator: John Cassidy - The New Yorker

Panelists:
Ian Goldin - Director of the James Martin 21st Century School - Oxford University
Andy Haldane - Executive Director, Financial Stability,  Bank of England
Marleen Janssen Groesbeek - Policy Officer Sustainability, and Corporate Social Responsibility, Eumedion.
Dalia Marin - Professor of International Economics, University of Munich

Discussants: 
Jomo Kwame Sundaram  - Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
Barry Lynn - Director, Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, New America Foundation

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Can Sovereignty and Effective International Supervision be Reconciled? The Challenge of Large Complex Financial Institutions

Moderator: Henry Kaufman - President, Henry Kaufman and Company

Panelists:
Erik Berglöf - Chief Economist and Special Adviser, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
Claudio Borio - Deputy Head of Monetary and Economic Department, Bank for International Settlements
Garry Schinasi - Visiting Fellow, Bruegel, Brussels
Andrew Sheng - Chief Adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission

Discussants: 
Anat Admati - Professor of Finance and Economics, Stanford University
Simon Johnson - Professor of Entrepreneurship,  Global Economics and Management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Report of the Economics Curriculum Committee Task Force

Moderators: 
Perry Mehrling - Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University
Robert Skidelsky - Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Warwick University

Members of the Task Force

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Keynote: Adair Turner

Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Robert A. Johnson
Keynote Speaker: Adair Turner – Chairman, Financial Services Authority

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Exploring Complexity in Economic Theory

Moderator: Eric Beinhocker - Senior Fellow, McKinsey and Company

Panelists:
Brian Arthur - External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Ian Goldin - Director of James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford University
Thomas Homer Dixon - Director, Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, University of Waterloo

Student Breakfast with Robert Johnson  (Sun Dining Room)
(Invited Students Only)

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The Political Economy of Structural Adjustment: Understanding the Obstacles to Cooperation

Moderator: Richard McGregor - Deputy News Editor, Financial Times

Panelists:
Marcello DeCecco - Professor of Monetary and Financial History, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
Thomas Ferguson - Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts.
Louis Kuijs - Senior Economist, World Bank (Beijing)
Victor Shih - Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University.

Discussants: 
Orville Schell -  Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society, 
Martin Wolf - Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times*

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The Market or the State? Can market Forces Deliver Innovation, Education, and Infrastructure?

Moderator:  Roman Frydman – Professor of Economics, New York University

Panelists:
Phillipe Aghion - Professor Economics, Harvard University.
William Janeway - Warburg Pincus
William Lazonick – Professor, Economics, University of Massachusetts.

Discussants:  
Ha-Joon Chang - Reader, Political Economy of Development, University of Cambridge
Peter Jungen - Peter Jungen Holding GmbH

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Sustainable Economics With Introductory Remarks From Jim Balsillie

Moderator: Tom Bernes - Executive Director, CIGI

Panelists:
Alex Evans – Head of Program, Resource Scarcity, Climate Change and Multilateralism, New York University.
William Rees – Professor, Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia. 
Camilla Toulmin – Director, International Institute for Environment and Development.

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Optimal Currency Areas and Governance: The Challenge of Europe

Moderator:  Andre Sapir - Professor of Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles 

Panelists:
Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich - Professor of Economics and Economic History, Freie Universitat Berlin.
Kevin O'Rourke - Professor of Economics, Trinity College (Dublin).
Jean Pisani-Ferry - Director, Bruegel, Brussels.
Niels Thygesen - Emeritus Professor of International Economics, University of Copenhagen.

Discussants:   
Wendy Carlin - Professor of Economics, University College London
Jeffrey Frankel - Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Joseph Halevi - Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
Wolfgang Munchau - Eurointelligence ASBL

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The Architecture of Asia: Financial Structure and An Emerging Economic System

Moderator: Paul Blustein - Nonresident Fellow, Global Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution

Panelists:
Charles Dallara - Managing Director, Institute of International Finance
Yasheng Huang - Professor of Political Economy, MIT Sloan School of Management
Y.V. Reddy - Former Governor, The Reserve Bank of India, currently University of Hyderabad.
Joseph Stiglitz - University Professor, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate

Discussants:  
Brad Delong - Professor of Economics, University of California
Yu Yongding - Director, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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Panel Discussion: Rising to the Challenge: Equity, Adjustment and Balance in the World Economy

Moderator: Chrystia Freeland - Global Editor at Large, Thomson Reuters
                            
Panelists:
George Akerlof - Koshland Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Niall Ferguson - Professor of History, Harvard University
Andres Velasco - Former Finance Minister of Chile
Zhu Min - Special Advisor, International Monetary Fund

Conversation: Volcker and Soros

Moderator: Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor, Financial Times

Conversation Paul Volcker - Former Chairman, Federal Reserve and George Soros (Chairman - Soros Fund Management and Open Society Foundations)

Closing Remarks
Robert A. Johnson - Executive Director, Institute for New Economic Thinking

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Meeting of the Advisory Board of the Instititute for New Economic Thinking