EPS at the 2006 AEA/ASSA Meetings
Since its founding at the 1989 AEA meetings, EPS/ECAAR has maintained a strong presence at the American Economic Association/Allied Social Sciences Association's annual conference.
EPS Sessions
Roundtable One: Grand Strategy against Global Poverty (Joint EPS/AEA Roundtable)
Participants:
James Galbraith
Richard Jolly
Amartya Sen
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Nancy Birdsall — Center for Global Development
Any Global Strategy Against Poverty Will Be Misguided and Incomplete (paper)
Panel Session One: The Costs of War (Joint EPS/AEA session)
Chair: Michael Intriligator
Panelists:
William Nordhaus — Yale University
Excessive Military Spending in the United States (paper)Steven Kosiak — Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment
The Cost of US Operations in Iraq & Afghanistan (paper)Joseph Stiglitz — Columbia University & Linda Bilmes — Harvard University
The Economics of War and its Aftermath: The Case of Iraq (paper)Bassam Yousif — Indiana State University
What Went Wrong? Coalition Policies and Current Economic Conditions in Iraq (paper)
Roundtable Two: Economics and National Security (Joint AEA/EPS Roundtable)
Participants:
James K. Galbraith
Michael D. Intriligator
Carl Kaysen
Richard Kaufman
Gareth Porter
Robert Solow
EPS Annual Dinner honoring Amartya K. Sen
Speakers:
John Lord Eatwell
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Sir Richard Jolly
Lawrence H. Summers
Diana Strassman
Nancy Birdsall