History
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Economics and the Powerful: Faulty Analysis, Economic Advice and the Imperatives of Power
Apr 5, 2013 | 12:00—01:30
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Growth and Technological Change in Complex Systems
Apr 5, 2013 | 10:30—11:45
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The Future of Central Banking
Apr 5, 2013 | 02:30—04:30
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Conference paper
Poles Apart? Party Polarization and Industrial Structure in American Politics Now
Apr 2013
Only a few years ago, comparisons of American politics to opéra bouffe were not outrageously farfetched at least if you were not poor or sick.
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Conference paper
Austerity, Polarity and the Prospect of Regime Change: China
Apr 2013
Since the dawn of this millennium, and long before the current financial turmoil and the subsequent bitter pill of austerity therapy hit the Untied States and the European Union, the Chinese Communist Government has publicly recognized the monumental challenge of polarity.
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Conference paper
Assessing Development
Apr 2013
There are a number of possible purposes in assessing the level of economic development of a country or part of a country. The assessment may provide an incentive for better development, particularly if it can be compared meaningfully with assessments for other countries.
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Austerity, Polarization, and the Prospect of Social Disorder
Apr 5, 2013 | 06:50—08:20
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What is Development?
Apr 5, 2013 | 08:30—09:15
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Voth vs. Ferguson: And How Austerity Leads to Worse Outcomes
Apr 5, 2013
At dinner yesterday Niall Ferguson made the argument that China (or the East) were perhaps no longer looking to how Western countries had built their social institutions and formed their empires, and were instead now doing their own thing as the Western approach was shown to be flawed
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Inequality in China, India and America: Causes and Consequences
Apr 5, 2013 | 05:15—06:45
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Conference paper
Domestic Rebalancing to Reduce Global Imbalances: The Role of Financial Market Measures
Apr 2013
“Taking advantage of the opportunity offered by the structural adjustments of the global economy…”The decisions on the four modernisations taken at the Third Plenum represented a radical change in Chinese domesticdevelopment strategy.
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Conference paper
Meritocracy Is a Good Thing
Apr 2013
Political meritocracy is the idea that a political system is designed with the aim of selecting political leaders with above average ability to make morally informed political judgments. That is, political meritocracy has two key components: (1) the political leaders have above average ability and virtue and (2) the selection mechanism is designed to choose such leaders.
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China in the World: Growth, Adjustment and Integration
Apr 4, 2013 | 11:45—01:15
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Capitalism and the Rule of Law
Apr 4, 2013 | 02:30—04:30
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Conference paper
Addressing the Crisis in the Euro Zone System
Apr 2013
The reason why the Euro zone crisis has dragged on for so long is that Europe’s leaders have focused too much on short-term measures to patch up the emergency of the moment, rather than formulating a comprehensive plan.