Events

Agenda

9:30am - 10:00am - Registration and coffee

10:00am - 10:05am - Welcome remarks

Edmund Phelps, Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics and Director, Center on Capitalism and Society

10:05am - 11:10am - Origins of Individualism

James Mackintosh (Chair), Senior columnist, The Wall Street Journal

Christine Helmer, Visiting Corcoran Professor of Christian-Jewish Relations, Boston College and Professor of German and Religious Studies, Northwestern University

Mark C. Taylor, Professor of Religion, Columbia University

Susan Lee, theologian and economist

Alan Mittleman (Discussant), Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Theological Seminary

11:10am - 12:15pm - The Impact of Individualism

Richard Robb (Chair, Discussant), Professor of Professional Practice, SIPA, Columbia University and CEO, Christofferson, Robb & Company

George Rupp, President Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion, International Affairs, and Public Health, Columbia University

David Sidorsky, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

Richard Sennett, Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University

12:15pm - 12:30pm - Special Session: Remembering Jacques Barzun

Matthew Barzun, former United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Charles Barzun, Armistead M. Dobie Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

12:30pm - 2:00pm - Luncheon - by invitation only

Peter Jungen (Luncheon speaker), Chairman, Peter Jungen Holding GmbH and Honorary Chairman of the Advisory Board, Center on Capitalism and Society

2:00pm - 3:00pm - Evolution of Individual Values and Economic Outcomes

James Mackintosh (Chair), Senior columnist, The Wall Street Journal

Juan Vicente Sola, Professor of Constitutional Law, Law School of the University of Buenos Aires and Director of the Centre of Law and Economics, University of Buenos Aires

Hans-Joachim Voth, Professor of Economics, University of Zurich

Raicho Bojilov, Assistant Professor of Economics, École Polytechnique

Philip K. Howard (Discussant), Founder of Common Good and author of The Rule of Nobody

3:00pm - 4:00pm - Individualism, Humanities, Education

Charles Kolb (Chair), President and CEO, DisruptDC

Peter Pazzaglini, Senior Scholar, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University

Mark C. Berner, CEO and co-Chairman, Telos

Roya Hakakian, writer and founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center  

Barnaby Marsh (Discussant), founding partner, Saint Partners and former Senior Executive, Templeton Foundation

4:00pm - 4:20pm - Break              

4:20pm - 5:45pm - Individualism in the Economy

W. Bowman Cutter (Chair), Senior Fellow and Director of the Next American Economy Project, Roosevelt Institute

Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

David Goodhart, founder, Prospect magazine and Head of Demography, Immigration & Integration, Policy Exchange

Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University

Robert Shiller, Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics, Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University

Edmund Phelps, Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics and Director, Center on Capitalism and Society

Andrzej Rapaczynski (Discussant), Daniel G. Ross Professor of Law, Columbia University

6:00pm - 6:55pm - Cocktail reception             

7:00pm - 9:30pm - Dinner - by invitation only

Jean-Paul Fitoussi (Dinner speaker), Professor of Economics, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and LUISS Guido Carli University

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