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What’s Wrong With the Economy—and With Economics?
A conference sponsored by The New York Review of Books Foundation, The Dan David Prize, and The Fritt Ord Foundation
March 14–15, 2015
Scandinavia House
58 Park Avenue (at 38th Street)
New York, NY

Grete Brochmann
David Colander
Jefferson Cowie
Paul Duguid
Gerald Epstein
Katherine Fleming
Benjamin Friedman
Jacob Hacker
Simon Head
Paul Krugman

Jeff Madrick
Philip Mirowski
Edmund Phelps
Martha Poon
Itamar Rabinovich
Richard Sennett
Robert Silvers
Robert Skidelsky
Jeremy Waldron
Shoshana Zuboff

Open to all, $20 admission • More information and tickets at www.nybooks.com/economy

CONFERENCE PANELS

Saturday, March 14, 2015
10:45–11:00 am: Introduction and Welcoming Remarks
Professor Grete Brochmann, University of Oslo, and Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, Fritt Ord
Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich, Chairman, Dan David Foundation
Robert Silvers, Editor, The New York Review of Books
I. 11:00 am–12:30 pm: The Atlantic Economies Since the Crash: Secular Stagnation?
Chair: Robert Silvers, Editor, The New York Review of Books
Professor Jacob Hacker, Yale University
Jeff Madrick, Century Foundation, New York, Editor of Challenge magazine
Professor Edmund Phelps, Columbia University, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics 2006
12:30–1:30 pm: LUNCH
II. 1:30–3:00 pm: Economics after the Crash: A Discipline in Need of Renewal?
Chair: Professor Katherine Fleming, Director of the Remarque Institute, New York University
Professor Benjamin Friedman, Harvard University
Professor Paul Krugman, Princeton University, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, 2008
Professor Lord Skidelsky, University of Warwick, and House of Lords, UK
3:00–3:30: COFFEE BREAK
III. 3:30–5:00 pm: Who and Where Are the Economists?
Chair: Philip Howard, Founder and Chair of Common Good
Professor David Colander, Middlebury College, Vermont
Professor Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Professor Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame
Sunday, March 15, 2015
IV. 10:00–11:30 am: The Problem of Value: Economics as a Moral Science
Chair: Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich, Dan David Foundation
Professsor Greta Brochmann, University of Oslo
Professor Richard Sennett, New York University
Professor Jeremy Waldron, New York University
11:30 am–12:00 pm: COFFEE BREAK
V. 12:00–1:30 pm: Making Sense of the Information Economy: A Mixed Record?
Chair: Dr Martha Poon, Senior Research Fellow, Data and Society Research Institute, New York
Professor Paul Duguid, University of California, Berkeley
Simon Head, New York University and University of Oxford
Professor Shoshana Zuboff, Harvard Business School
1:30–2.30 pm: LUNCH
VI. 2:30–4:00 pm: The Education of Economists
Chair: Professor Richard Nelson, George Blumenthal Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Raphaele Chappe, PhD Candidate in Economics, The New School
Professor Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University
Dr. Andrew Graham, University of Oxford