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Globalization and International Development: Critical Issues of the 21St Century 2007-08 Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Werner Sichel Lecture Series Economics 2007 Globalization and International Development: Critical Issues of the 21st Century 2007-08 Department of Economics Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sichel-series Part of the Economics Commons WMU ScholarWorks Citation Department of Economics, "Globalization and International Development: Critical Issues of the 21st Century 2007-08" (2007). Werner Sichel Lecture Series. 12. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/sichel-series/12 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Economics at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Werner Sichel Lecture Series by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact wmu- [email protected]. 44thAnnual Werner Sichel Economics Lecture-Seminar Series Dr. Kenneth Reinert Dr. Lisa Cook "Globalization and International Development: School of Public Policy Department of Economics & James Madison College Critical Issues of the 21st Century" George Mason University Michigan State University The 2007/2008 Werner Sichel Economic Lecture­ Seminar Series features six outstanding economists whose presentations will focus on the challenges and opportunities of globalization and international development. All Globalization and International Development: presentations are free and open to the public. Critical Issues of the 21st Century Globalization is primarily an economic phenomenon, but it Public Lectures on Wednesdays has socio-cultural and political dimensions that significantly 3508 Knauss Hall impact human welfare and development. The series' 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. speakers will address various dimensions of globalization Globalization for Development? Patents and Knowledge Spillovers to Developing Countries including poverty, foreign aid, global justice, global financial September 26, 2007 October 24, 2007 flows, and patent and knowledge spillovers to developing Dr. Kenneth Reinert countries. George Mason University Dr. Kenneth A. Reinert is currently Associate Professor Dr. Lisa A. Cook is assistant professor in the Depart­ September 26, 2007 of Public Policy at George Mason University, where ment of Economics and the James Madison College at In addition to a public lecture, each guest scholar will he received a Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003. Michigan State University. Her fields of interest and present an academic seminar for economics facu lty and Dr. Lisa D. Cook He is a senior fellow at Trade Partnership World expertise include development, political economy, eco­ graduate students. The Lecture-Seminar Series is eligible Michigan State University Wide and a Research Fellow at Rural Development nomic history and technology and innovation. for academic credit in coordination with the graduate October 24, 2007 Research Consortium. and/or advanced undergraduate economics course, Guest Economist Seminar (59 10, 5920), under the supervision of Before coming to MSU, Dr. Cook was a National and Dr. Reinert received his Ph.D. in economics from the WMU Economics Professor Asefa. For more information, Dr. Steven Radelet Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University of Maryland. He has held the position of please contact Professor Sisay Asefa at (269) 387-5556, Center for Global Development University. She was visiting assistant professor at the Senior International Economist at the U.S. International e-mail him at: [email protected], or contact the December 5, 2007 Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University Trade Commission and was an associate professor of Economics Department office at (269) 387-5535. and Deputy Director, Africa Research, Center for In­ economics at Kalamazoo College. Dr. Hadi Saleh Esfahani ternational Development, and a faculty member at the The Werner Sichel Lecture-Seminar Series is directed by Harvard Business School. She served as a senior ad­ University of Illinois-Urbana Dr. Reinert has published more than 45 journal Professor Asefa with the assistance of Drs. Michael Ryan visor on Finance and Development to the Council on February 27, 2008 articles and book chapters on international trade, and Ed Van Wesep of the Department ofEconomics, and the Foreign Relations and as International Affairs Fellow. economic development, and environmental policy. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. He co-edited Applied Methods of Trade Policy Dr. Joseph Joyce Dr. Cook received her Ph.D. in 1997 from the Univer­ Analysis: A Handbook, by Cambridge University Travel Directions: From 1-94, take US 131 North to exit 36A Wellesley College sity of California, Berkeley and her B.A. from Oxford Press, 1997, authored Windows on the World (Stadium Drive). Drive east on Stadium Drive to the fourth March 26, 2008 University in philosophy, politics, and economics as a Economy (Southwestern-Thompson, 2005), and co­ traffic light at Howard Street. Tum left onto Howard and take Marshall Scholar. She also received a B.A. in philoso­ edited Globalization for Development (Palgrave and the second right to WMU's campus. Follow the signs to the phy (magna cum laude) from Spellman College. Dr. Linda Tesar World Bank 2006). He is the editor of a two-volume Miller Auditorium parking ramp. Proceed to the frontofMiller University of Michigan Princeton Encyclopedia for the World Economy by Auditorium and take the main walkway heading to the center April 9, 2008 Princeton University Press. Dr. Cook has published many journal articles, and chap­ of campus. Knauss Hall is the dark brown, brick building on ters in books, including book reviews. Her publications the right side, two buildings past the 10-story Sprau Tower. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Economics Dr. Reinert has also served as a consultant for the include a chapter in the forthcoming book: "The Eth­ Online map: http://www.pp.wmich.edu/buildings/069.html gratefully acknowledge the co-sponsorship of this series by: World Trade Organization, the World Bank, OECD ics and Economics of Slavery", Princeton University W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Development Center, and the U.S. Department of Press, and she authored Patents and Ghettos: Explain­ Diether H. Haenicke Institute for Global Education. Department of Economics Commerce. ing Divergence in the Rate of Inventions 1983-2003, College of Arts and Sciences Stanford University Press, 2005. Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5330 • Dr. Hadi Saleh Esfahani Dr. Joseph Joyce Dr. Linda Tesar Center for Global Development Department of Economics Department of Economics Department of Economics University oflllinois at Urbana-Champaign Wellesley College The University of Michigan Development Policy in Globalizing World: New Perspectives on Options and Constraints The Composition ofAlloca tion of Global Financial Flows: Foreign Aid: Wasting Money or Fighting Poverty? February 28, 2008 Global Justice: An Economist's Perspective What are Markets Doing? December 5, 2007 March 26, 2008 April 9, 2008 Dr. Steven Radelet is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Dr. Hadi Saleh Esfahani is a Professor of Economics Dr. Joseph P. Joyce is a Professor of Economics at Dr. Linda Tesar is currently a Professor and Chair Development, where he works on issues related to foreign aid, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. He joined of the Department of Economics at the University developing country debt, economic growth, and trade between His theoretical and empirical research focuses on Wellesley's faculty in 198 1 and served as Chair of the of Michigan. Her research focuses on issues in rich and poor countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. He also the political economy of development, foc using in Economics Department from 1994-1998. He teaches international finance, with particular interests in the currently serves as an economic advisor to Liberia's President particular on the Middle East and the North Africa courses in Globalization and Macroeconomic theory. international transmission of business cycles and fiscal Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. region. He has served as the Director of the Social Sciences policy, the benefits of global risk-sharing, the global Summer Research Program, which was funded by a allocation of capital, international tax competition and Dr. Radel et was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Dr. Esfahani currently serves as the editor of the grant from the National Science Foundation. the impact of off-shoring. for Africa, the Middle East, and Asia from January 2000 through Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, the June 2002. From I 990-2000 he was on the faculty of Harvard president of the Middle East Economic Association, Dr. Joyce received a B.S. in International Affairs Dr. Tesar is a Research Associate at the National University, where he was a Fellow at the Harvard Institute for and the director of the Global Studies Initiative at from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Bureau of Economic Research and has been a visitor in Service. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston International Development (HIID), Director of the Institute's the University of Illinois. He has also worked fo r the research departments of the International Monetary University, and he has held visiting positions at the Macroeconomics Program, and a Lecturer on Economics and the World Bank as a visiting staff economist and Fund, the Board of Governors of the
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