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How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

Mon, Oct 20, 2008

While liberals continue to believe in the free market, conservatives have abandoned it all together. If conservatives no longer take free markets seriously, why should liberals? Why keep liberal thought in the straitjacket of pay-as-you-go, of assigning inflation control to the Federal Reserve, of attempting to “make markets work”? Why not build a new economic policy based on what is really happening in this country? James K. Galbraith, professor of government at the LBJ School and author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too, is in conversation with Robert Kuttner, distinguished senior fellow at Demos and co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect. Teresa Ghilarducci, an economic policy analysis professor at The New School for Social Research and the director of SCEPA moderates, This event was held by The New School.

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Intellect or Instinct: Contemporary View of the Death Drive

Fri, Oct 10, 2008

The death drive was first defined by Signmund Freud as “an urge inherent in all organic life to restore an earlier state of things,” through death, destruction, or non-existence. Otto F. Kernberg, MD, former president of the International Psychoanalytical Association lectures on his critical examination of Freud’s theory of the death drive based on the psychoanalytic explorations of aggressive motivation in cases of severe and borderline character pathology. He questions the assumption of an innate self-destructive drive but affirms the inborn nature of aggressive affects and the clinical relevance of Freud’s concept. This event was co-sponsored by the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis and the Department of Social Sciences at The New School.

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Realities Behind the Economic Recovery Plan

Thu, May 22, 2008

As debate on the recession moves from “if” to “when” to “how long,” The New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA) and the New America Foundation invite top economists and business executives to share their perspectives. The discussion centers on the economic and political realities behind the debate on how best to stimulate the economy, including how a major public infrastructure investment might serve as a centerpiece of a longer-term recovery program. Participants include Laura D’Andrea Tyson, professor and former Dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley; Lawrence Mishel, President of the Economic Policy Institute; Bob Kerrey, president of The New School; Teresa Ghilarducci, the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research; Tom Gallagher, an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida, most recently holding the position of Chief Financial Officer of the State of Florida, and; Heidi Crebo-Rediker, co-director of New America’s Global Strategic Finance Initiative. This event was held at The New School.

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Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the New Asian Age

Wed, Oct 15, 2008

In the late 18th century, political economist Adam Smith predicted there would eventually be equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. He described the possibility that China would become a non-capitalist market economy. Giovanni Arrighi, professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University discusses his most recent book, Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century,which focuses on Adam Smith’s vision of the economy compares to today’s actual economy. Following the lecture is a discussion with New School faculty Duncan Foley, moderated by Janet Abu-Lughod, a professor at The New School for Social Research. This event was held by The New School.

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Food Writing Forum: Edible Manhattan

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

From the Upper East Side to the East Village, Manhattan seems to have infinite choices of where to eat. Edible Manhattan is a new quarterly magazine that investigates this diverse food culture--more investigative journalism than food porn, more historical profile than restaurant gossip. Luis Jaramillo, associate chair of The New School Writing Program, moderates a reading from the inaugural issue of the magazine. Participants include Brian Halweil, executive editor of Edible Manhattan and senior researcher and John Gardner Public Service Fellow at Worldwatch Institute; Gabrielle Langholtz, editor of Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan, faculty in NYU's Food Studies program, and publicity manager for Greenmarket; and Michael Harlan Turkell, photo editor for Edible Manhattan. This event was held by The New School.

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