Three contributing authors to the new Pardee Center Task Force Report titled Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review were the featured presenters at the Pardee House Seminar on April 12. The seminar was co-sponsored by the Center for Finance, Law and Policy, which also collaborated on publication of the report. The […]
The Future of South-South Economic Relations, a book stemming from a Pardee Center 2010 conference of the same name, received a favorable review by the LSE Review of Books, a book review blog published by the London School of Economics and Political Science. The reviewer wrote: This book is worth the attention of anyone who wishes to understand […]
The Pardee Center is co-sponsoring a transcontinental gaming session titled “Broken Cities,” designed to connect urban planning students and practitioners across the world in a conversation about climate variability via video stream. Other co-sponsors include the Boston University Metropolitan College, City Planning and Urban Affairs and Sustainability @ BU. The event will take place on […]
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 […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has published the 27th paper in the Issues In Brief series. “Water Resources Development: Engineering the Future of Global Health” by Pardee 2012 Graduate Summer Fellow Diana R. Gergel presents the oft-neglected correlation between the development of dams and reservoirs, and the increased […]
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. […]
Director ad interim James McCann led a four-person roundtable panel sponsored by the Pardee Center at the 18th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies in the city of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia on October 31-November 2nd. This short film Ethiopia in Movement, made by award-winning Ethiopian filmmaker Aida Ashenafi captures the panelists in the heart of the […]
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, […]