In delivering the 2013 Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lecture on April 4, Prof. Geoffrey West discussed how the rapid pace of urbanization may be creating some extreme challenges, but noted that the same rapid urbanization is also likely to spur the innovative solutions to those issues. Prof. West, Distinguished Professor and former president of the […]
Boston University faculty from the fields of international public health, anthropology, and biology spoke of the complex connections between human and natural systems and the impact of those relationships on development during the March 26 Pardee House Seminar titled Ecosystems, Culture, and Governance: A Systems View of Development. Pardee Faculty Fellow Les Kaufman (Biology) moderated […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the April Pardee House Seminar titled Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review. The seminar will take place Friday, April 12, 2013 from noon until 1:30 pm. This Pardee House Seminar focuses on the newly released […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher and Prof. José Antonio Ocampo wrote an op-ed in Economic & Political Weekly titled, IMF’s New View On Capital Controls. The PDF of his op-ed is available here. More of Prof. Gallagher’s work on capital flows is available as part of the Global Economic Governance Initiative project titled, Financial Reform and Economic Governance. […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center is pleased to announce the March Pardee House Seminar, titled Ecosystems, Culture, and Governance: A Systems View of Development. The seminar will take place Tuesday, March 26, 2013, from noon to 1:30pm. Pardee Faculty Fellow Les Kaufman (Biology, BU) will moderate and Pardee Faculty Fellow Susan Foster (School of Public Health, […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times published on March 6th titled, “Don’t trade away financial stability in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.” Prof. Gallagher writes about upcoming negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and why talks are stalled due to disagreements over capital account regulations. Prof. Gallagher is the Principle Investigator in the […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published a new Task Force Report titled Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review. The report is the second publication of the Pardee Center Task Force on Regulating Capital Flows for Long-Run Development, and builds on the Task Force´s […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce that theoretical physicist Geoffrey West, Distinguished Professor and former President of the Santa Fe Institute, will deliver the annual Frederick S. Pardee Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, April 4 at 5 p.m. in the Trustee Ballroom at One Silber Way. […]
The Pardee House Seminar on Feb. 25 titled The New Global Agreement on Mercury: Will It Make a Difference? featured three panelists who attended some of the international negotiation sessions leading up to announcement of the new agreement in January. The three offered their perspectives on how effective the new agreement will be. Pardee Faculty […]
Frederick S. Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher is quoted extensively and his work is cited in a recent Associates Press article about China’s loans to Latin America and the Caribbean. The article is available here. In addition, Margret Meyers, Director of China and Latin American program, Inter-American Dialogue, is also quoted. She spoke at the Pardee House Seminar, […]