Forum at Columbia Global Centers | Europe
SPRING 2012 SERIES: GLOBAL CRISES | GAPING INEQUALITIES
Feb 7, 2012: The Haves and the Have Nots: Calculating Global Inequality
Speaker: Branko Milanovic, Lead Economist, World Bank
Discutant: Jon Elster, Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences, Columbia University
Click here for the flyer and here for more information about the speakers.
Pour vous familiariser avec les analyses de Branko Milanovic, nous vous invitons à visualiser cet entretien se déroulant à l’Universidad Carlos III de Madrid :
et à lire cette article dans L’Economiste, ainsi que cet entretien avec la revue Sens public. Le regard de Milanovic traverse aussi bien les époques que les pays, ce qui suscite des commentaires de bloggeurs, et ses idées s’imposent de plus en plus dans dans la presse américaine libérale, particulièrement après la parution l’année dernière de cet article dans Foreign Affairs.
SPRING 2012 SERIES: GLOBAL CRISES | GAPING INEQUALITIES
The Forum at Columbia Global Centers | Europe, brings together students with scholars, social critics, and the public to acquire new knowledge about contentious issues that play out locally and globally. CGC|E wants to provide a forum for these issues to be debated between Columbian academics, both faculty and students, and their European counterparts and colleagues. For this purpose, the Forum invites speakers with deep expertise and wide scope, chooses discussants to offer a counterpoint, and welcomes especially the participation of students—the next generation of global citizens.
This year, the Forum addresses the problem of new inequalities, moving from the premise that, historically, major economic crises have intersected with long-term shifts in the distribution of wealth. The intention of our forum is to refocus the dominant conversation away from talking about the short-term economic impact of economic crises. We want to re-focus on the acceleration of deeper structural shifts of wealth, status, ways of living, and notions of social injustice created by balance of trade upsets, currency crises, unemployment, and foreclosure, but also by the economic solutions that have been chosen up till now to address them. We also want to understand the way that economic crises spark social crises arising from senses of inequality and how these crises may, in turn, substantially transform (for better or worse) our capacities to shape policies and political outcomes.
The Forum in Paris is coordinated with the Columbia-based series on Bringing Back Political Economy: Europe, Ground Zero sponsored by the Blinken European Institute and the European Student Association. It normally takes place on Tuesday evenings, 18:00-20:00 Continental Time, with a reception to follow.