EPS at the 2010 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: Global Financial Crises: Past, Present and Future

Chair: Allen Sinai — Decision Economics, Inc.

Participants:

• Michael Intriligator — University of California at Los Angeles and Milken Institute
  The Financial Crisis of 2007–09: Causes, Consequences, Lessons

• Simon Johnson — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Global Financial Crisis: Over, or Just Beginning?

• Benjamin M. Friedman — William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
  Widening Inequality: Implications for Economy and Society

• Allen Sinai — Decision Economics, Inc.
  Financial Crises in Historical Context and Future Prospects

• Joseph E. Stiglitz — Columbia University
  What Went Wrong and What Can Go Right?

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Session Two: A Roundtable on Planning and Designing a Sustainable Economic Future 

Chair: Michael Intriligator — University of California at Los Angeles and Economists for Peace and Security

Participants:

• Andrew Brimmer — Brimmer & Co.

• Woodrow W. Clark — Clark Strategic Partners, UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• Eban Goodstein — Bard Center for Environmental Policy

• Clark Abt — Brandeis University

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Annual Dinner

Honoring EPS Trustee Andrew Brimmer

Speakers:

• James K. Galbraith

• Allen Sinai

• Joseph E. Stiglitz

• Mahmood Zaidi

• James A. Brox

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