EPS at the 2007 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.

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EPS Sessions

Session One: Out How: The Economics of Ending Wars, a roundtable discussion

Chair: James K. Galbraith

Participants:

• Thomas Schelling — University of Maryland (video)

• Clark Abt — Abt Associates
  Out How: The Political Economy of Ending Wars, in Iraq and Others (video, paper)

• Linda Bilmes — Harvard University
  SOLDIERS RETURNING FROM IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN: The Long-term Costs of Providing Veterans Medical Care and Disability Benefits (video, paper)

• Col. Douglas Macgregor — Center for Defense Information
  Straus Military Reform Project, Talking Points (video, paper)

• Michael Intriligator — University of California at Los Angeles Milken Institute
  Ten Points (video)

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Session Two: Women and War, a joint session with IAFFE

Chair: Lourdes Beneria — Cornell University

Participants:

• Jennifer Olmsted — Drew University
  Gender and Military Occupation in Iraq and Palestine

• Derya Demirler — Istanbul Bilgi University
  Gender Dimensions of Internal Displacement in Turkey (paper)

• Marguerite Waller — University of California–Riverside
  Is Post-conflict Forced Prostitution a War Crime?

Discussant: Elisabetta Addis — Universita degli Studi di Sassari

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EPS Annual Dinner honoring William Baumol

Dr. Baumol's address at the EPS dinner: Falling Prices and Terrorism: The Tragic Obverse of the Cost Disease

Speakers:

• Ralph Gomory

• Andrew Schotter

• Robert Litan

• Alan Blinder

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