20th Anniversary Conference
20th Anniversary Conference of the Center on Capitalism and Society:
Economic Policy and Economic Theory for the Future
Friday, November 5, 2021
Saturday, November 6, 2021
Presentations will be held in Faculty House
Luncheon and Dinner: Friday, November 5, 2021, Faculty House
Agenda:
Day 1: Friday, November 5, 2021
8:30am - Registration opens
9:15am - Welcome & Introduction
Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Director, Center on Capitalism and Society
9:30am - 10:00am - Session 1
Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
10:05 am - 10:35am - Session 2
Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Director, Center on Capitalism and Society
10:40am - 11:10am - Session 3
Lu Mai, Former Vice Chairman, China Development Research Foundation**
11:15 - 11:45am - Session 4
Rana Foroohar, Global Business Columnist and Associate Editor, Financial Times, and global economic analyst, CNN
12:00pm - 1:15pm - Luncheon in Low Library Rotunda (by invitation only)
Martin Wolf (luncheon speaker), Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times**
1:30pm - 2:00pm - Session 5
Roman Frydman, Professor of Economics at New York University and Chair, Program on Knightian Uncertainty Economics, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
2:05pm - 2:35pm - Session 6
Carmen Reinhart, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group
2:40pm - 3:10pm - Session 7
Richard Robb, Professor of Professional Practice in International Finance, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, and CEO of Christofferson, Robb and Company
3:10pm - 3:30pm - Coffee Break
3:30pm - 4:00pm - Session 8
Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Martin Research Programmes on Technological and Economic Change, the Future of Work and the Future of Development**
4:05pm - 4:35pm - Session 9
Sandra Navidi, Founder and CEO, BeyondGlobal and author of $uperHubs: How the Financial Elite and their Networks Rule Our World
4:40pm - 5:10pm - Session 10
Eric Maskin, 2007 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Harvard University
5:15pm - 5:45pm - Session 11
Luigi Paganetto, Professor Emeritus, Tor Vergata University and President, Tor Vergata Economics Foundation (FUET)**
5:45pm - 8:30pm - Dinner in Low Library Rotunda (By invitation only)
Richard Sennett (dinner speaker), Senior Advisor, UN Program on Climate Change and Cities; Senior Fellow, Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies, MIT
Day 2: Saturday, November 6, 2021
9:30am - Registration opens
10:00am - 10:30am - Session 12
Peter Howitt, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Lyn Crost Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences, Brown University
10:35am - 11:05am - Session 13
Michele Gelfand, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Stanford University
11:10am - 11:40am - Session 14
Esa Saarinen, Professor Emeritus of Applied Philosophy, Aalto University**
Lauri Pietinalho, PhD candidate, Organizational Research and Applied Philosophy, Aalto University
11:45am - 12:15pm - Session 15
Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Professor of Economics, Institut d'Etudes Politique de Paris**
12:20pm - 12:50pm - Session 16
Geoffrey Heal, Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility, Columbia Business School
12:55pm - 1:25pm - Session 17
Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate, University Professor at Columbia University and Chief Economist at the Roosevelt Institute
**Appearing virtually