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October 08, 2015

EPIIC Colloquium 10/8/15 - Yannis Ioannides [Audio]

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Professor Ioannides joined the Tufts faculty in September 1995 as the Max and Herta Neubauer Professor in Economics. Previously he taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where he served as Department Head from 1989-1995. He has also held an appointment as a Professor of Economics at the Athens School of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece, and was a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1982-1993. His research interests are macroeconomics, economic growth and inequality, social interactions and networks, and housing markets. He is currently an Associate Editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics and of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition. He served as a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Social Interactions and Economic Inequality, and as a consultant to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the European Investment Bank (Luxembourg), and other EU, US, and Greek institutions. He has participated widely in conferences and has published articles in many leading journals including: American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, Regional Science and Urban Economics, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and most recently by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
 

October 01, 2015

EPIIC Colloquium 10/1/15- Enrico Spolaore [AUDIO]

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Enrico Spolaore's lecture entitled "Monnet’s Chain Reaction and the Future of Europe:Reflections on the Political Economy of European Integration."

Enrico Spolaore is a Professor of Economics at Tufts University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where he is a member of the Political Economy Program. He is also a CESIfo Fellow at the University of Munich and an External Associate at the University of Warwick’s Centrefor Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). His main research interests are in political economy, economic growth and development, and international economics. Among his publications are “On the Number and Size of Nations” (with Alberto Alesina, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997), “Economic Integration and Political Disintegration” (with Alberto Alesina and Romain Wacziarg, American Economic Review, 2000),“On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility” (with Peter Gottschalk, Review of Economic Studies, 2002), “The Diffusion of Development” (with Romain Wacziarg, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009), “How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?” (with Romain Wacziarg, Journal of Economic Literature, 2013), “What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists” (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2013), and several other articles and book chapters. Spolaore’s publications also include the monograph The Size of Nations (with Alberto Alesina, MIT Press, 2003 – paperback edition, 2005), and two edited volumes on Culture and Economic Growth (Edward Elgar, 2014). Before joining the Tufts faculty in 2004, Spolaore held faculty positions at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ohio State University, Boston College, and Brown University. He also worked as a consultant for the Confederation of Italian Industries (Confindustria) and the European Commission. At Tufts he served as Chair of the Economics Department between 2006 and 2012.  Spolaore was born in Italy, and holds Italian and U.S. citizenships.

September 24, 2015

EPIIC Colloquium 9/24/15 - Mark Blyth [AUDIO]

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On Thursday, September 24, 2015 the EPIIC Colloquium had the pleasure of hearing from guest lecturer Mark Blyth on the topic of "Austerity and the Future of the Euro." Mark Blyth is Eastman Professor of Political Economy and faculty fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is based in political science but his research begs and borrows from multiple fields. He is particularly interested in how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems, and why people continue to believe particular economic ideas despite buckets of evidence to the contrary. He was a member of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform that made an early case for macro-prudential regulation. He is the author of several books including Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002, and most recently, Financial Times Books of the Year (economics List) Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press 2013), which questions the return to prominence of financial orthodoxy following the global financial crisis.

September 17, 2015

EPIIC Colloquium- Sebastián Royo [AUDIO]

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EPIIC class Thursday, September 17, 2015

Sebastián Royo

Sebastián Royo is Vice Provost and Professor of Government at Suffolk University. His research focuses on comparative political economy in Southern Europe. At CES, he is Co-Chair of the Study Group A Center-Periphery Europe? Perspectives from Southern Europe. He is the author of several books, including Lessons from the Economic Crisis in Spain (2013), Portugal in the 21st Century (edited 2011), and Varieties of Capitalism in Spain (2008). He has published articles in Governance, Review of Political Economy and many other journals.

September 15, 2015

EPIIC Colloquium- Tony Smith [AUDIO]

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Tony Smith is the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  His interests include United States foreign policy with special emphasis on relations with Europe. He has written several books including America’s Mission: The US and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century (1994) and Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of US Foreign Policy (2000). Smith is also author of numerous articles on third world studies and US foreign policy, many with respect to transatlantic relations. His book entitled A Pact with the Devil: Washington’s Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise was published in early 2007. In early 2009 he published American Foreign Policy in Crisis with Anne-Marie Slaughter and others. This year, an expanded edition of his book, America’s Mission: the United States and the World-Wide Struggle for Democracy was published. He is currently working on a book on American democracy promotion from the first writings of Woodrow Wilson to today. His books include The French Stake in Algeria (1978); The Pattern of Imperialism (1981), and A Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise (2007).

April 16, 2015

Irina Gordienko and Vladimir Zhagora

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Irina Gordienko and Vladimir Zhagora speak to the EPIIC class

April 09, 2015

Ilya Ponomarev

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Ilya Ponomarev speaks to the EPIIC class.

March 24, 2015

Ari Axelrod

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Ari Axelrod speaks to the EPIIC Class.

Axelrod is a Senior Fellow for Council on Emerging Market Enterprises at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

 

March 05, 2015

Masha Gessen

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Masha Gessen speaks to the EPIIC class.

March 03, 2015

2015 EPIIC Russia Symposium: Suzanne Massie [Audio]

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Thursday, February 26
Keynotes on Russia and Identity, 7:00pm
ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Intercultural Center

• Suzanne Massie, Author; Trust but Verify: Reagan, Russia, and Me
Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award presented by Joel Wasserman, EPIIC 2015 Colloquium Member

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