Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher was interviewed by New England Cable News reporter Peter Howe about President Obama’s nomination of Dartmouth College President Jim Young Kim to become the new head of the World Bank. Prof. Gallagher is the faculty coordinator of BU’s Global Development program and is a regular contributor to The Guardian on […]
Susan Zalkind has joined the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as the Research Initiatives and Multimedia Coordinator. Before coming to the Pardee Center, Zalkind worked as a Production Assistant at New England Cable News. She graduated from Boston University in January 2011 where she majored in History and minored […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted the initial meeting of the newly formed Pardee Advisory Board on March 22. Composed of seven members of the Boston University faculty from various disciplines and schools, the Board members will provide input to the development of the Center’s various programs and […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomes Isabella Wedl as a Visiting Doctoral Scholar. She comes to the Pardee Center from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany where she is affiliated with the faculty of Sustainability Sciences, and a member of the Institute of Environmental and Sustainability Communication (INFU). […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University has published a new research report for a project sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Connecting the Dots: Information Visualization and Text Analysis of the Searchlight Project Newsletters was produced by the Pardee Center as part of a larger Rockefeller Foundation […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is holding a participatory workshop called “Games for a New Climate” on Tuesday, March 27 to demonstrate how experiential learning can be an effective tool for linking knowledge with action. The event is sponsored by the Pardee Center in collaboration with the Red […]
Pardee Post Doctorate Fellow Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri presented a paper titled,“The Enigma of India’s Structural Dynamics,” at the 38th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA) held at the Boston Park Plaza hotel from the 9 –11 March 2012. In her presentation Dr. Nabar-Bhaduri argued that the Indian economy is not such a rosie picture […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin P. Gallagher wrote an op-ed for Aljazeera reflecting on the 65th anniversary of the IMF. Dr. Gallagher argues that in some ways the IMF is slowly going back to Kenyesian policy roots in wake of the 2008 crisis. “The IMF has reflected on its past wrongs, and has promised to change […]
Approximately 100 Boston university students, faculty, and other guests attended the Pardee Seminar held on March 8 that introduced the new Pardee Center Task Force Report titled Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development. The seminar was organized by Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher, co-chair of the Task Force that produced the report. Other speakers […]
Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher wrote on an op-ed in support of the use of capital controls in emerging markets and the developing world in the Financial Times tying into this week’s Pardee Task Force Report, “Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development.” His op-ed is in part a response to Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff’s move […]