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Date: Thu Sep 20 2007 - 11:54:45 EDT
>From: GDAE Announce <GDAEannounce@tufts.edu> >Subject: Leontief Prize: Climate Change, Economic Development, and Global >Equity >Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:37:04 -0400 > >*The Global Development And Environment Institute */(//www.gdae.org ><http://www.gdae.org/>)/ > >invites you to attend*/ /* > >*/The 2007 Leontief Prize/* > >*/for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought/* > >*"Climate Change, Economic Development, and Global Equity"**/ /* > >/Award recipients and lecturers: / > >*Dr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram** > *Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development, > United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) >*Author of /The New Development Economics: After the Washington Consensus/* > >*Dr. *Stephen DeCanio*** >*Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara >*Author of /Economic Models of Climate Change: A Critique/** > >Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 5:00-7:30 pm >*Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall, Medford Campus, Tufts University** > > >Ceremony and addresses will be followed by a reception. > >This event is free and open to the public. >Directions to Tufts Medford Campus can be found on the web at: >http://www.tufts.edu/home/maps/medford/ >More information about GDAE at: http://www.gdae.org <http://www.gdae.org/> > >In recognition of the increasing importance of the intersection of >environment, development, and equity, the Global Development And >Environment Institute's annual Leontief Prize will this year feature >lectures on the topic, "Climate Change, Economic Development, and Global >Equity." This year's prizes will go to Dr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram of the >United Nations and Dr. Stephen DeCanio, Professor of Economics at the >University of California, Santa Barbara, known recently for his >groundbreaking work on climate change. > >The Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE), which is jointly >affiliated with Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Graduate >School of Arts and Sciences, inaugurated its economics award in 2000 in >memory of Nobel Prize-winning economist and Institute advisory board member >Wassily Leontief, who had passed away the previous year. The Leontief >Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought recognizes economists >whose work, like that of the institute and Leontief himself, combines >theoretical and empirical research that can promote a more comprehensive >understanding of social and environmental processes. > >The inaugural prizes were awarded to John Kenneth Galbraith and Nobel Prize >winner Amartya Sen. Subsequent Leontief Prize recipients have included >Paul Streeten, Herman Daly, Alice Amsden, Dani Rodrik, Nancy Folbre, Robert >Frank, Richard Nelson, Ha-Joon Chang, Samuel Bowles, and Juliet Schor. > >"With the world's attention increasingly focused on the urgent challenges >of climate change and global inequality, we want to recognize two >individuals whose contributions have helped supply the theoretical >framework and empirical understanding to tackle these global problems," >says GDAE Co-director Neva Goodwin. > >Jomo K.S. (as he is known) is Assistant Secretary General for Economic >Development in the United Nations' Department of Economic and Social >Affairs (DESA). Born in Penang, Malaysia, Jomo has a PhD in economics from >Harvard and, before joining the U.N., was a professor in the applied >economics department, University of Malaya, until 2004. He has taught at >Science University of Malaysia, Harvard University, Yale University, >National University of Malaysia, University of Malaya, and Cornell >University. He has authored more than 35 monographs, edited more than 50 >books, and translated 11 volumes, in addition to writing many academic >papers and articles for the media. His most recent coauthored books, /The >New Development Economics: After the Washington Consensus, /and /The >Origins of Development Economics: How Schools of Economic Thought have >Addressed Development, /are important contributions to renewed debate in >this area. > >Stephen DeCanio is Professor of Economics at the University of California, >Santa Barbara. Among other public service activities, he has been a Senior >Staff Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and a >member of the Economic Options Panel convened by the United Nations >Environment Programme to review economic aspects of the Montreal Protocol >on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. He has applied theories of >bounded rationality and principal-agent problems to explain the failure of >firms to make extremely profitable energy efficiency investments, one of >the important puzzles of the field. With a strong mathematics background, >he has provided an in-depth critique of the general equilibrium models used >by many economists to model climate change, most notably in his 2003 book >/Economic Models of Climate Change: A Critique/. > >The Global Development And Environment Institute was founded in 1993 with >the goal of promoting a better understanding of how societies can pursue >their economic and community goals in an environmentally and socially >sustainable manner. The Institute develops textbooks and course materials >that incorporate a broad understanding of social, financial and >environmental sustainability. The Institute also carries out >policy-relevant research on globalization and sustainable development, the >role of the market in environmental policy, recycling and material use, and >climate change. Its six-volume book series, /Frontier Issues in Economic >Thought,/ identified and summarized nearly 500 academic articles on topics >often given little attention in the field of economics. > >*For more information on the Leontief Prize event, contact Joshua Berkowitz >at 617-627-3530 or joshua.berkowitz@tufts.edu ><mailto:joshua.berkowitz@tufts.edu> * > >*or visit the GDAE web site at: http://www.gdae.org <http://www.gdae.org/> >*
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