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    Meir Kohn, There is No Such Thing As Market Failure

    Feb. 13 at 6 pm in Moore B03

    “Market failure” is often cited as a rationale for proposing government solutions to economic problems. In #4 of his year-long “Understanding the Economy” lecture series, Meir Kohn subjected the reasoning behind the theory of “market failure” to critical scrutiny. The YouTube video of his presentation can be found here.

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    Jake Monaghan, Crime and Punishment: Thoughts on the American Policing System

    Jan. 24 at 4:30 pm in Kemeny 008.

    Managing disorder in American cities is philosophically and politically fraught. In this talk, we’ll see why, and consider some possible responses. Jake Monaghan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California and earned his PhD at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of Just Policing and several articles on the philosophy of policing. 

     

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    Joshua Rubenstein, "The Last Days of Stalin"

    Haldeman 041 on January 29 at 4:30 pm.

    Joshua Rubenstein is an award-winning independent scholar of literature and history, an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, and a life-long activist (Amnesty International) with a specialty in Russian and Soviet dissidents and prisoners of conscience. He is the author or editor of a number of path-breaking books on Soviet and Soviet-Jewish history. In this talk, he discusses his 2016 book The Last Days of Stalin, when the Soviet Union was inundated with a “tsunami of anti-Semitism.” Co-sponsored by the Eurasian, East European, and Russian Studies Department.

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    Zongyuan Zoe Liu, China's Real Economic Crisis

    Jan. 30  at 5:00 pm in Kemeny 008.


    Is China still a rising power, or has it embraced a “failing model”? Zongyuan Zoe Liu has staked out one of the most forceful and articulate approaches to this major question of our time. Liu is the Maurice R. Greenberg Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions as well as Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System?

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    Joseph Fewsmith, What Do We Know About China Today?

    Feb. 18 at 7:30 pm in Moore B03

    Professor of International Relations at Boston University, Fewsmith is the author of numerous books and articles on recent China and especially its prospects for political or economic reform. Most recently, he was a contributor to Studying China in the Absence of Access: Rediscovering a Lost Art. How much do we really know about this secretive regime? That will be the timely topic of this PEP event.