Venerdì 25 ottobre 2013, ore 18.30 presso The Westin Palace Hotel – Piazza della Repubblica 20, Milano, avrà luogo il Cenacolo con il Prof. James K. Galbraith, Chair in Government/Business Relations at The University of Texas at Austin
James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and a professorship of Government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin. He holds degrees from Harvard and Yale (Ph.D. in economics, 1981).He studied as a Marshall Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge in 1974-1975, and then served in several positions on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including executive director of the Joint Economic Committee. He directed the LBJ School’s Ph.D. Program in Public Policy from 1995 to 1997. He directs the University of Texas Inequality Project, an informal research group based at the LBJ School. Galbraith’s new book is Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2012). Previous books include The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (Free Press, 2008), Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (Free Press, 1998) and Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future (Basic Books, 1989). Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View (Cambridge University Press, 2001), is co-edited with Maureen Berner. He has co-authored two textbooks, The Economic Problem with the late Robert L. Heilbroner and Macroeconomics with William Darity, Jr. He is a managing editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. Galbraith is a member of the Lincean Academy, the oldest honorary scientific society in the world. He is a senior scholar of the Levy Economics Institute and chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security, a global professional network. He writes frequently for policy magazines and the general press..
L’originale formula del “cenacolo” prevede la partecipazione attiva ad un “tavolo unico” fino ad un massimo di 35-40 persone con la regia di Francesco Sansone, autore del libro “Leadership responsabile”, edito da Franco Angeli.
Sarà un’occasione unica nella quale il Prof. James K. Galbraith che interverrà sul tema “Gli scenari mondiali ed il futuro dell’eurozone”, si renderà disponibile a rispondere alle domande degli ospiti che interverranno in un clima conviviale, con ampio spazio riservato agli interventi dei partecipanti, insieme alla esclusiva esperienza di condividere il gusto per l’eccellenza delle idee e l’eccellenza del gusto.
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