[OPE-L] Leontief Prize: Climate Change, Economic Development, and Global Equity

From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
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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