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, […]
Pardee Center Research Fellows Janot Mendler de Suarez and Pablo Suarez were among the presenters during a three-hour session called “Creative and Participatory Methods in Climate Communication” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston on Feb. 17. During their presentation, the pair discussed the participatory games […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Enrique Silva is quoted in SciDev.Net story Online tools ‘decentralizing disaster relief efforts,’ about his work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. The story is about a study of new geospatial technologies and Prof. Silva shares his experience using these new tools in emergency meetings with the Haitian government. Prof. Silva is […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the next Pardee House Seminar, titled The New Global Agreement on Mercury: Will It Make a Difference? The seminar will take place on Monday, February 25, 2013 from noon to 1:30 p.m. Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin (International Relations, […]
The Financial Times has complied a top ten list for the most popular guest posts in 2012 on in its “beyondbricks” blog about emerging markets. Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher’s March entry “Why Ocampo — Not Kim — should be next World Bank president,” was the second most popular on the publication last year. […]
2013 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program Application deadline: Friday, March 15, 2013 The Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows Program offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the broad research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. […]