Political Economy & Development Seminars Spring 2004

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206

Questions? Contact Steve Cullenberg or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau.

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

Copies of papers may be available from Pam .

DATE NAME TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/2/2004

and

4/3/2004*

Economic Representations: Both Academic and Everyday, Center for Ideas and Society UCR

Including, Jack Amariglio, (Economics, Merrimack College), Stephen Cullenberg (UCR), Will Milberg (Economics, New School University), David Ruccio (Economics, University of Notre Dame) Martha Starr (Economics, American University and many others.

*NOTE: Friday & Saturday Humanities 1500 Both days 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m

Conference website: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/econrep
4/9/2004 Michael Bernstein UCSD History “The ‘Marginalist Revolution’ in Historical Context”
4/16/2004 Feng Xiao CSU Fullerton Economics “The Role of the Stock Market in Influencing Firm Investment in China”
4/23/2004* Keith Griffin Festschrift Conference

*NOTE: Friday; University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The full conference schedule can be downloaded at the Political Economy Research Institute website www.umass.edu/peri/
4/24/2004* Keith Griffin Festschrift Conference

*NOTE: Saturday; University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The full conference schedule can be downloaded at the Political Economy Research Institute website www.umass.edu/peri/
4/30/2004 David Ellerman World Bank (retired) & UCR Economics “A Modern Treatment of Descriptive and Normative Property Theory”
5/7/2004 Prasanta Pattanaik UCR Economics “On the Structure of Normative Economics”
5/14/2004 Timur Kuran University of Southern Calif. Economics “Why the Islamic Middle East Did Not Develop Corporate Law through Indigenous Means”
5/21/2004 David Ellerman World Bank (retired) & UCR “A Theory of Autonomy-Respecting Development Assistance”
5/26/2004* Kaushik Basu Cornell University C. Marks Professor and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development, Department of Economics Distinguished Visitor

*NOTE: Wednesday, 2:10-3:30 p.m.

“Globalization and Marginalization: A Re-examination of Development Policy”
5/27/2004* Kaushik Basu Cornell University C. Marks Professor and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development, Department of Economics Distinguished Visitor


*NOTE: Thursday, 4:10-5:30 p.m.

“Racial Conflict and the Malignancy of Identity”
5/28/2004* Keith Griffin

*NOTE: Development Symposium for Keith Griffin 10:00 a.m

10:00 a.m. Azizur Rahman Khan Economics, UCR “Income Distribution in Post-Reform China” 

2:00 p.m. Ben Crow, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz, “Gender and Water: Poverty, Mortality and Access to Water”

4:00 p.m. Jim Boyce, Economics, University of Mass., Amherst, “Green and Brown? Globalization and the Environment”

6/4/2004* Graduate Student Conference for Keith Griffin

Confirmed Participants Include:
Diana Alarcon, Inter-American Dev. Bank Mark Brenner, Univ. of Mass., Amherst Amber Casolari, Glendale Comm. College Savvina Chowdhury, Cal. State Univ., Bakersfield Ranjeeta Ghiara, Cal State Univ. , San Marcos Craig Gunderson, Iowa State University Mwangi wa Githinji, Gettysburg College Amy Ickowitz, Clark University Terry McKinley, United Nations Dev. Programme Bassam Yousif, Cal. State Univ. Fullerton German Zarate-Hojos, State Univ. of NY Cortland Eduardo Zepeda, United Nations Dev. Programme

*NOTE: Friday 9:30a.m. to 5:30p.m.

The Challenge of Development in the 21st Century, Schedule
6/9/2004 E. Roy Weintraub Duke University Economics

NOTE: Wednesday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm

“Equilibrium Proofmaking”