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    Melissa Kearney, Marriage and the Economy

    Monday Nov. 4 at 4:30 in Rocky 1.

    Melissa S. Kearney (Econ, U. of Maryland) will discuss her widely cited book The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind (Chicago, 2023).

    Kearney is director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (where she is former director of the Hamilton Project), an NBER research associate, and an affiliate of MIT’s Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab.

    Co-sponsored by the Tuck School and the Economics Department.

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    Matt Yglesias, The Strange Death of Neoliberal America

    Nov 7 at 5 pm in Filene Aud.

    Ever since Donald Trump won in 2016, both parties have repudiated neoliberalism for a new interventionism. Trump rejected free trade and fiscal constraints while Biden embraced industrial policy and aggressive antitrust enforcement, and has even flirted with price controls. One of America's leading political analysts considers these trends and their prospects.

    Yglesias ("Slow Boring," 149,000 subscribers) is one of the most influential commentators at work today.

    Moderated by Prof Doug Irwin (Econ) and co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center.

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    PEP Debate: Is the American Dream Still Alive?

    Strain and Leonhardt draw on their recent books—The American Dream is Not Dead: But Populism Could Kill It (2020), and Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream (2023), respectively—to debate one of the pressing issues of our time: whither the American Dream?

    The recording of this Oct. 14 debate is now available here.

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    A Conversation With Larry Summers

    Monday Oct. 21 at 12:30 pm in Rocky 3.

    This program is now available on YouTube here.

    Lawrence H. Summers, former Treasury Secretary of the United States and former President of Harvard University discussed the economic challenges facing U.S. policymakers, including the growing fiscal deficit, the geopolitical rivalry with China, the coming disruption caused by AI, the recent debate about intellectual diversity in the academy, and more.

     

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    Peter Deshazo: Latin American Security, Democracy and Economy

    What are the key factors shaping the military, political, and economic prospects of Latin America as a region? Where is the promise and where is the peril? As a U.S. election looms, what role can or should the United States play in promoting stable development throughout the hemisphere? 

    Peter Deshazo (’69, Ph.D. UW-Madison) is a career-long expert on Latin America through his work in the State Department, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies and elsewhere.

    Tuesday Oct. 29 at 4:30 pm in Kemeny 008.

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