Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher discusses the role of cross-border financial regulations in the latest Pardee Podcast about the March 2013 Pardee Task Force Report, Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review. Prof. Gallagher is the Co-Chair of the Pardee Task Force on Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development. This report builds on the Task […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the 2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows. The eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent various schools and departments from across the university, including Energy and Environment, Global Development, History, International Relations, International Public Health, and Political Science. Starting June […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has published the 16th paper in The Pardee Papers series. An Uncertain Future: Youth Frustration and the Arab Spring was written by 2011 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow M. Chloe Mulderig. The paper argues that cultural and economic factors preventing youth […]
A new book titled How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands published by Duke University Press is the outcome of a Pardee Center Research Project, Diasporas and Development. The Pardee Center Research Project brought together experts from a variety of disciplines to build on the body of literature on the issues relating to the impact diasporas have on the society in […]
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 […]