Archive
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Conference Session
Rising to the Challenge: Equity, Adjustment and Balance in the World Economy
Apr 9, 2011 | 01:50—03:20
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Conference Session
A Conversation with Paul Volcker and George Soros
Apr 9, 2011 | 04:00—06:00
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Working Paper
Conference paperOptimal Currency Areas and Governance: The Challenge of Europe
Apr 2011
In preparing this paper I have decided not to embark upon the decades-old issue of optimal-currency areas and governance as such. I assume that one of my colleagues on the panel will do that. Instead I will present an historical case of over-indebtedness of parts of a common-currency area somewhat similar to the present challenge of Europe, or rather of the Euro area with its common currency.
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Working Paper
Conference paperThe Innovative Enterprise and the Developmental State: Toward an Economics of “Organizational Success”
Apr 2011
Investment in productive capabilities provides the foundation for economic growth.
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Working Paper
Conference paperGreen, Fair and Productive: How the 2012 Rio Conference can move the world towards a sustainable economy
Apr 2011
Our shared concern – 20 years after Rio, yet poor progress towards wellbeing
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Working Paper
Conference paperGlobalization and Scarcity: Multilateralism for a world with limits
Apr 2011
Globalization has improved the living standards of hundreds of millions of people – but growing resource scarcity means it risks becoming a victim of its own success.
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Working Paper
Conference paperRethinking Growth and the State
Apr 2011
Government intervention is often perceived as a constraint on market forces and thereby on economic growth.
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Working Paper
Conference paperToward a Sustainable World Economy
Apr 2011
All cultural narratives, worldviews, religious doctrines, political ideologies, and academic paradigms are ‘social constructs.’
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Conference Session
The Market or the State? Can Market Forces Deliver Innovation, Education, and Infrastructure
Apr 9, 2011 | 05:25—07:00
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Conference Session
Sustainable Economics with Introductory Remarks from Jim Balsillie
Apr 9, 2011 | 07:00—09:10
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Working Paper
Conference paperHigh Wealth Concentration, Porous Exchange Control, and Shocks to Relative Return: the Fragile State of China’s Foreign Exchange Reserve
Apr 2011
At a time when China is the favored investment destination in the global market, it seems unlikely that it would ever face capital flight.
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Working Paper
Conference paperLegislators Never Bowl Alone: Big Money, Mass Media, and the Polarization of Congress
Apr 2011
This is a small paper on a big subject: the polarization of American politics since the mid-1970s. In its early stages this process bore more than a passing resemblance to the opening scenes of a Grade B disaster movie: With almost everyone’s attention focused elsewhere, a series of tiny, seemingly insignificant departures from long standing routines took place.
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Working Paper
Conference paperToo Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail
Apr 2011
The theme of this session is very timely and controversial, on the ability of sovereign governments to supervise Large Complex Financial Institutions (LCFIs), now officially described as G-SIFIs, global systemically important financial institutions.
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Working Paper
Conference paperGlobal Imbalances: Past, Present and Future
Apr 2011
After the inception and, hopefully, the passing of the most dangerous phase of the international financial crisis, economists have returned to the long favoured subject of global imbalances.
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Conference Session
The Political Economy of Structural Adjustment: Understanding the Obstacles to Cooperation
Apr 9, 2011 | 03:15—05:10