EPS at the 2008 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: The Plight of the Soldier

Chair: Thea Harvey — Economists for Peace and Security

Participants:

• Lawrence Korb — Center for American Progress
  The All-volunteer Force and the Long War: When and How should we Reinstitute Conscription?

• Major General Paul Eaton — United States Army (retired)
  The American Soldier: Carrying the Entire Load for the Bush Administration?

• David Loughran — RAND Corporation and Jacob Klerman — Abt Associates
  The Effect of Activation on the Post-Activation Earnings of Reservists

• Linda Bilmes — Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan: Impediments to Securing Disability Benefits and Medical Care

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Session Two: A Roundtable on Climate Change, Hurricane Katrina and Related Issues

Chair: James K. Galbraith — University of Texas at Austin and Economists for Peace and Security

Participants:

• Paul Krugman — Princeton University

• Joseph E. Stiglitz — Columbia University

• Howard Kunreuther — University of Pennsylvania

• Marcellus Andrews — Barnard College

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Session Three: The Future of the Defense Budget

Chair: Michael Lind — New America Foundation

Participants:

• Joseph Stiglitz — Columbia University and Linda Bilmes, Kennedy School of Government — Harvard University
  Five Years of War: Reassessing the Economic Cost of Conflict in Iraq

• Barbara Bergmann — American University
  A Cost/Benefit Analysis of Large Military Budgets

• Winslow Wheeler — Strauss Military Reform Project, Center for Defense Information
  Weapons Systems that Don't Work for Threats that Don't Exist

• Richard Kaufman — Bethesda Research Institute
  The Next Peace Dividend

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EPS Annual Dinner honoring Paul Krugman

Speakers:

• James K. Galbraith

• Maurice Obstfeld

• Joseph E. Stiglitz

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