Όλα τα καλά -ή κακά- παιδιά εκεί!!!
Farrell, Krugman, Acemoglu, Bartels, Galbraith, Katz κ.ά..
O Krugman, ανήγγειλε το γεγονός στο ιστολόγιό του στους NYTimes ως εξής:
.Crisis at Princeton
Don’t worry, the school is doing fine. We’re talking about the wider world.
Here’s the Farrell paper I mentioned yesterday (pdf). [Note: HF wants to revise before circulating.] And here’s the agenda for the conference this weekend, on inequality and crisis. Lots of links there, including to my own talk from last summer.
If we solve all the mysteries, I’ll let you know.
The Politics of the Economic Crisis
About the Project
(2009-12)
In the fall of 2009, PIIRS launched the first phase of the three-year research cluster initiative, The Politics of the Economic Crisis. Principal investigators and coordinators of the research cluster are Larry Bartels, the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs; Jonas Pontusson, professor of comparative politics at University of Geneva; and Nancy Bermeo, the Nuffield Professor of Comparative Politics at Oxford University.
The project focuses on exploring and explaining how a variety of democratic political systems respond to the current economic crisis. The investigation seeks to account for similarities and differences in the policies adopted by different countries and to trace the economic and political effects of those policies. The project will:
- examine the role of public opinion and elections in shaping policy responses to the crisis
- examine inequality as a potential explanation for differences in policy and as a potential outcome of differences in policy
- build an interdisciplinary dialogue between history, economics, and other social sciences
The core of the project will be a sustained conversation and collaboration among the three principal investigators—political scientists with strongly overlapping scholarly interests but largely distinct professional networks and expertise. Scholars from around the globe will convene at Princeton and Oxford University for conferences, seminars, and colloquia that explore government responses to the crisis; the implications of the crisis for varieties of capitalism; and the implications of the crisis for public attitudes, political participation, and partisan politics.
The second year of the project, 2010–11, is a residence year for professors Bartels, Bermeo, and Pontusson. During this phase, the professors will work on an edited volume, pursue their own research, and host short-term visitors for a biweekly colloquium, in addition to convening a conference and interdisciplinary seminars.
The third phase of the cluster, 2011–12, will be a year of conferences and public scholarship.
Faculty
Larry Bartels is the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and director of the Woodrow Wilson School’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. He has written extensively on American electoral politics, public opinion, and representation. His most recent book, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2008), received the American Political Science Association’s Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the year’s best book on U.S. national policy and the Leon D. Epstein Award for an outstanding contribution to scholarship on political organizations and parties. -- Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley.
Nancy Bermeo is the Nuffield Professor of Comparative Politics and director of the Center for the Study of Inequality and Democracy at the University of Oxford. She is the author and editor of nine books on comparative politics and public policy, including Unemployment in the New Europe (2001) and Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Collapse of Democracy (2003), which received the Best Book Award from the APSA’s Democratization section. -- Ph.D. Yale University.
Jonas Pontusson is a professor of comparative politics at the University of Geneva. A leading scholar of comparative political economy and the welfare state, he previously taught at Cornell and Princeton. He has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Social Sciences, and Nuffield College, Oxford. He received the American Political Science Association’s Gladys M. Kemmerer Award for Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe versus Liberal America (2005) and the Heinz Eulau Award for “The American Welfare State in Comparative Perspective” (Perspectives in Politics, 2006). -- Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley.
Events
2010–11
SPRING 2011
March 5-6
Workshop
The Connection between Economic Crisis and Inequality
216 Aaron Burr Hall
For more information, please contact Jayne Bialkowski
Participants
Larry Bartels, (Princeton University)
Nancy Bermeo (Oxford University)
James K. Galbraith (University of Texas)
Lane Kenworthy (University of Arizona)
Branko Milanovic (Oxford University)
Salvatore Morelli (Oxford University)
Jonas Pontusson (University of Geneva)
Kenneth Scheve (Yale University)
David Stasavage (New York University
Suggested Readings
1. Historical studies of inequality:
Galbraith , “Inequality and Economic and Political Change”
Krugman, “Inequality and Crises: Coincidence or Causation?” (slides)
Acemoglu , “Thoughts on Inequality and the Financial Crisis” (slides)
3. Policy responses to economic crises:
Pop-Eleches, "From Crisis to Reform: Partisan Responses to Economic Crises in Latin America and Eastern Europe"
Almunia et al ., “From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons”
Cameron , “Fiscal Responses to the Economic Contraction of 2008-09”
McCarty , “The Politics of the Pop: The Effects of Ideology, Partisanship, and Interest in the Response to the U.S. Finance Crisis and Great Recession”
4. Social and political ramifications of economic crises:
Smeeding et al ., “Poverty and Income Inequality over the Early Stages of the Great Recession”
Solt , “Economic Inequality and Democratic Political Engagement”
Heathcote et al ., “Inequality in Times of Crisis: Lessons from the Past and a First Look at the Current Recession”
The Politics of Economic Crisis Speaker Series
How do governments and the people they govern react to economic crises? Do our current theories account for differences across countries, time, and level of economic development? Who gets blamed for crises and who pays the costs of ending them?
All events for this series will be held at 4:30 p.m. in 216 Aaron Burr Hall, unless otherwise noted.
February 3
A Ticket to Ride: Citizen Investors' Political Response to the Market Roller Coaster
Wendy Rahn (University of Minnesota)
February 11
Fiscal Responses to the Economic Contraction of 2008-09
David Cameron (Yale University)
Noon
February 24
The World Economy, Political Control, and Responsibility for Economic Conditions
Timothy Hellwig (Indiana University)
March 3
Networks and Ideational Power: The Rise and Decline of Keynesianism during the Economic Crisis
Henry Farrell (George Washington University)
March 9
The Contest of Lobbies and Disciplines: Financial Politics and Regulatory Reform in the Obama Administration
Daniel Carpenter (Harvard University)
March 31
The Dog That Did Not Bark: Anti-Americanism and the Financial Crisis
Sophie Meunier (Princeton University)
April 7
Globalization, Growth, and Redistribution
Carles Boix (Princeton University)
April 14
Democracy, the Left, and Inequality in Latin America
Evelyne Huber and John Stephens (University of North Carolina)
April 21
Explaining Patters of Emerging Martkets' Response to the Crisis
Daniela Campello (Princeton University)
FALL 2010
October 23–24, 2010
Conference
Government Responses to the Economic Crisis
Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY
Participant List
Events Archive
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