Events

19th Annual Conference of the Center on Capitalism and Society:

Finding the Way Back to Prosperity and Flourishing

Friday, September 30th, 2022

Presentations: Columbia University Faculty House

Luncheon and Dinner (by invitation): Columbia University Faculty House

Click here to register for the conference.

Agenda:

9:00am: Registration opens    
        
9:15am - 9:20am - Welcome and introduction

• Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Director, Center on Capitalism and Society

Morning sessions: The Private Sector        
        
9:30am - 10:00am - Session 1

• Glenn Hubbard, Dean Emeritus; Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics; Director, Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business

        
10:05 am - 10:35am - Session 2

• Shamus Khan, Professor of Sociology and American Studies, Princeton University

        
10:40am - 11:10am - Session 3    

• Grace Nguyen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Richard Robb, Professor of Professional Practice in International Finance, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, and CEO, Christofferson, Robb & Company

        
11:15am - 11:45am - Session 4    

• Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University Stern School of Business

        
11:50am - 12:25pm - Session 5    

• Caroline Flammer, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

        
12:30pm - 1:45pm - Luncheon at Faculty House (By invitation)

• Margaret Levi (Luncheon speaker), Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute, Stanford University

        
Afternoon sessions: The Public Sector        
        
2:00pm - 2:30pm - Session 6

• Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow, Yale University Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, and Senior Lecturer, Yale University School of Management

        
2:35pm - 3:05pm - Session 7

• Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge, and Co-director, University of Cambridge Bennett Institute

        
3:10pm - 3:40pm - Session 8

• Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and the Department of Economics, Harvard University

        
3:40pm - 4:00pm - Coffee Break    
        
4:00pm - 4:30pm  - Session 9

• Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Director, Center on Capitalism and Society

        
4:35pm - 5:05pm - Session 10    

• Alan Murray, CEO, Fortune Media

        
5:10pm - 5:40pm    Remembrance: Jean-Paul Fitoussi 

• Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Director, Center on Capitalism and Society
• Jérémie Robert, Consul general of France in New York
• David Fitoussi
• Richard Robb, Professor of Professional Practice in International Finance, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, and CEO, Christofferson, Robb & Company
• Giovanni Tria, Chairman, Enea Tech and Biomedical Foundation, former Italian Minister of Economy and Finance, former Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata
• Luigi Paganetto, Professor Emeritus, Tor Vergata University and President, Tor Vergata Economics Foundation (FUET)
• Francesco Saraceno, Deputy Department Director, OFCE-Sciences Po
• Luigi Bonatti, Professor of Economic Policy, University of Trento
• Jürgen Schröder, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Mannheim
• Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate, University Professor at Columbia University and Chief Economist at the Roosevelt Institute

        
5:45pm - 6:45pm - Cocktail Reception at Faculty House    
        
7:00pm - 8:30pm - Dinner at Faculty House (By invitation) 

• Juan Vicente Sola (Dinner speaker), Professor Emeritus, University of Buenos Aires and Director, Centre of Law and Economics, University of Buenos Aires

Please contact Lizzie Feidelson at [email protected] or (212) 851-0260 with any questions.