Chronology
2001
February: Center is starts up with 10 founding members
September: Festschrift for Edmund Phelps held at Columbia University
October: Seminar on Joint Action, Newness, and Error Control with
Amar Bhidé
December: Seminar on Imperfect Knowledge Economics with Roman
Frydman
Joseph Stiglitz receives Nobel Prize
2002
January: Jeffrey Sachs becomes a member
September: Center joins Columbia’s Earth Institute
2003
May: Festschrift for Joseph Stiglitz at Columbia University
2004
May: Inaugural Conference: Capitalist Systems (Columbia University,
New York)
October: Seminar on Financiership with Edmund Phelps
2005
June: 2nd Annual Conference: Aging Baby Boomers, Pensions and
Medical Benefits, andConsequences for Dynamism, Prosperity and
Growth (University of Iceland,Reykjavik)
March: Seminar on Corporate Taxation with Pentti Kouri and Edmund
Phelps
December: Pentti Kouri and Richard Robb form the Center’s Advisory
Board
2006
March: Seminar on Innovation and the Bias of Technical Progress with
Joseph Stiglitz
May: First issue of Capitalism and Society published (Berkeley
Electronic Press)
July: 3rd Annual Conference: Perspectives on the Performance of the
Continent’s Economies (with CESifo in Venice)
December: Edmund Phelps receives Nobel Prize
2007
July: Peter Jungen named Chair of the Advisory Board
September: Jean-Paul Fitoussi becomes the first Foreign Member
December: 4th Annual Conference: The Dynamism of U.S. Capitalism: Is
It Deficient? Is It Endangered? (Council on Foreign Relations,
New York)
2008
April: Seminar on the Financial Crisis with Richard Robb
May: Seminar on Minimum Wage and Public Policy with Philippe Aghion
(Harvard University)
July: Center resumes independence, formally separating from the Earth
Institute
August: Graciana del Castillo becomes Associate Director and Research
Scholar
September: Fred Kittler and Leo Tilman join Advisory Board
Seminar with Isaac Getz (ESCP-EAP European School of
Management)
October: Seminar on the Banking Crisis with Leo Tilman
November: Seminar on the Constitutional Economy (Argentina) with Juan
Vicente Sola
5th Annual Conference: Economic Dynamism and Inclusion
(Mexico City)
Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg's article in Capitalism and
Society is in BEPress's Top Papers in ResearchNow (ten most
downloaded papers among all papers in the BEPress system)
December: Juan Vicente Sola is named a Foreign Member
2009
January: Advisory Board Member Pentti Kouri passes away
John Kay is named a Foreign Member
February: 6th Annual Conference: Emerging from the Financial Crisis held
at Columbia University
March: Conference of the Phelps Chair, University of Buenos Aires Law
School
May: Richard Robb appointed Professor in the Practice of International
Finance at Columbia’s School of International Affairs
Four new members join the Center:
Guillermo Calvo
Merritt Fox
Ronald Gilson
Sidney Winter
Seminar on Bank Reform with Amar Bhidé
Seminar on Nietzsche with Richard Robb
June: Sir Howard Davies is named a Foreign Member.
Two new members are appointed to the Advisory Board:
Robert Mundell
Karlheinz Muhr
July: Richard Robb's paper and James Heckman's comment in Capitalism and Society is in BEPress's Top Papers in ResearchNow (ten most downloaded papers among all papers in the BEPress system)