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  1. Conference paper

    Linking Individual and Community Economic Mobility: The Spatial Foundations of Persistent Inequality in the United States

    By Robert J. Sampson

    Apr 2015

    Considerable academic and public attention has been drawn to the pulling away of the very rich—the so-called “one percent” whose gains have far outpaced those of everyone else (Piketty 2014). But the debate has reached well beyond the very top, especially in the United States.Indeed, the hollowing out of the middle class, continuing stagnation of wages, and new evidence on the lack of upward mobility across generations all strike at the very heart of the American ideal.

  2. Conference paper

    Italy's Crisis: Neither Fiscal Profligacy nor Capital Flows

    By Domenico Lombardi and Samantha St. Amand

    Apr 2015

    Italy was one of the worst hit during the 2007–2009 global financial crisis (GFC) among the major advanced economies. By year-end 2009, Italy’s economy had contracted by 6.6 percent; significantly larger than the recessions in the euro zone and the United States, for example, which saw their GDPs shrink by 4.4 and 3.1 percent, respectively.

  3. How Did Bad Economics Crowd Out Good Economics? Evidence from Citation Analysis

    Featuring Carlo D'Ippoliti, Len Seabrooke, and Jakob Kapeller

    Apr 10, 2015 | 06:45—08:15

  4. Challenging Economic Injustice Through Literature

    Featuring Nicholas Boyce, Lynn Parramore, Jeffrey L. Spear, and Sara Thornton

    Apr 9, 2015 | 10:15—11:45

  5. Political Institutions & Inequality

    Featuring Jie Chen, ​Orsola Costantini, Mirko Draca, Thomas Ferguson, Christian Fons-Rosen, and Paul Jorgensen

    Apr 9, 2015 | 11:00—12:30

  6. The Problem of Capital Flight

    Featuring Melvin Ayogu, Léonce Ndikumana, and Eleni Tsingou

    Apr 9, 2015 | 11:30—01:00

  7. Macroeconomic Externalities

    Featuring Martin Guzman, Benoit Mojon, Joe Stiglitz, and Moritz Schularick

    Apr 9, 2015 | 12:15—01:45

  8. Occupy? Strike? Separatism? Populism? Are Any Of The Historical Forms Of Protest Effective In The Information Age?

    Featuring Andrea Fumagalli, Daniel Chomsky, and Richard Hyman

    Apr 9, 2015 | 07:15—08:45

  9. Information And Economics: How Should Expectations Be Modeled? What Actually Works?

    Featuring Duncan Foley, Michael Goldberg, and David Tuckett

    Apr 9, 2015 | 10:45—12:15

  10. Northeast Asia: The Balkans of the 21st Century?

    Featuring Bruce Cumings, Andrew Sheng, and James Kurth

    Apr 9, 2015 | 09:15—10:45

  11. Financial Networks, Financial Innovation & Inequality

    Featuring Stefano Battiston and Co-Pierre Georg

    Apr 9, 2015 | 10:30—12:00

  12. Sovereign Debt Restructuring

    Featuring Martin Guzman, Joe Stiglitz, and Richard Conn

    Apr 9, 2015 | 10:00—11:30

  13. Gender & Inequality: The Glass Ceiling In International Perspective

    Featuring Alessandra Casarico, Monika Queisser, Judy Tsui, and Sarah Voitchovsky

    Apr 9, 2015 | 06:30—08:00

  14. The New Politics of Central Banking

    Featuring Perry G. Mehrling, Andrew Sheng, and Adair Turner

    Apr 9, 2015 | 07:00—08:30

  15. Stimulating Innovation & Growth

    Featuring James Balsillie, Dan Breznitz, and Andrew Wyckoff

    Apr 9, 2015 | 06:45—08:15