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EPS at the 2014 AEA/ASSA Meetings


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EPS at the 2014 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

Session One: Security Economics (transcript)

Moderator: Richard Kaufman — Bethesda Research Institute

Participants:

  • Cyrus Bina — University of Minnesota-Morris (presentation)

  • Heather Hurlburt — National Security Network

Due to extreme weather the following panelists were unable to attend:

  • Linda Bilmes — Harvard University

  • William Hartung — Center for International Policy

  • Michael Lind — New America Foundation

 

 

Session Two: Costs and Consequences of Austerity (transcript)

Moderator: Allen Sinai — Decision Economics

Participants:

  • Carmen Reinhart — Harvard University

  • Robert Pollin — University of Massachusetts–Amherst

  • Olivier Blanchard — International Monetary Fund

  • Susan Collins — University of Michigan

  • Robert Zoellick — Peterson Institute for International Economics


Annual Dinner

Honoring Jeffrey Sachs

Chair: Richard Parker — Harvard Kennedy School (audio)

Speakers:

Jeffrey Sachs

 

Host Committee:

  • Kofi Annan — Former Secretary General United Nations

  • Nirupam Bajpai — Columbia University

  • Leszek Balcerowicz — Former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland

  • Olivier Blanchard — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • David Bloom — Harvard School of Public Health

  • Lee C. Bollinger — Columbia University

  • Gro Brundtland — United Nations

  • Erik Brynjolfsson — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • John Coatsworth — Columbia University

  • Lisa Cook — Michigan State University

  • Paul Farmer — Harvard Medical School

  • Ram Fishman — George Washington University

  • Richard Freeman — Harvard National Bureau of Economic Research

  • Alan Garber — Harvard University Provost

  • Solomon Hsiang — Princeton University

  • Simon Johnson — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Laurence Kotlikoff — Boston University

  • Felipe Larrain — Minister of Finance for Chile

  • Edward Leamer — University of California– Los Angeles

  • Marvin Lieberman — University of California–Los Angeles

  • Gerry Lenfest — Earth Institute

  • Nora Lustig — Tulane University

  • Ronald MacLean-Abaroa — World Bank

  • Eric Maskin — Harvard University

  • Gordon McCord — University of California at San Diego

  • Luis Alberto Moreno — InterAmerican Development Bank

  • George Papandreou — Former Prime Minister of Greece

  • Edmund Phelps — Columbia University

  • Dani Rodrik — Princeton University

  • Nouriel Roubini — New York University

  • Meir Stampfer — Harvard School of Public Health

  • Manuel Trajtenberg — Tel Aviv University

  • Herve Verhoosel — Roll Back Malaria

  • Walter Willett — Harvard School of Public Health

  • Wing Woo — University of California–Davis

  • Joseph Zeira — Jerusalem University


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