Conferences and Public Lectures

•  4^th Annual Jewell Rasmussen Lecture in Economics, "Kudunomics: Information and Property Rights in the Weightless Economy" Presented By: Dr. Samuel Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute & University of Siena. Noon, April 2, 2008, Union Theater, University of Utah
• Rocco C. and Marion S. Siciliano Forum "Revisiting the Call to Action on Obesity: A Focus on Healthy Lifestyles" David Satcher, M.D. Ph.D., Thursday Noon, October 4, 2007, Katherine W. and Ezekiel Dumke Jr. Auditorium, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, The University of Utah
• Research Summit: Revisiting the Call to Action on Obesity, October 4-5, 2007, The University of Utah Fort Douglas Officers Club, Fort Douglas Boulevard
• Economics Pluralism for the 21^st Century - June 1-3, 2007 - University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
• 8^th International Conference on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics - July 20-21, 2007 - Istanbul, Turkey
• Institute of Public & International Affairs Presents: Senior Scholar, Professor Philip Arestis, Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, University of Cambridge. "Can the euro area play a stabilizing role in balancing global imbalances?" Thursday 10:00 a.m., March 29, 2007, Room 255 OSH, Hinckley Institute of Politics, University of Utah
• 3^rd Annual Jewell Rasmussen Lecture in Economics, "Humanizing Globalization" With: Professor Edward J. Nell, Malcolm B. Smith Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research. Thursday 10:00 a.m., April 5, 2007, Union Theater, University of Utah
• The Economics Department along with the Environmental Studies Program are sponsoring a lecture by the Jubliee USA Network as part of their "NEW ENERGY FOR DEBT CANCELLATION TOUR: Debt, Oil and Climate Change" on Wednesday, October 25^th at noon in the Hinckley Institute of Politics, Room 255 OSH. Speakers will be Lidy Nacpil, International Coordinator of Jubilee South and Asume Osuoka, Energy & Mining Program Manager Environmental Rights Action (Friends of the Earth).
• International Conference on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics, Intensive Course: June 18-30, 2006, International Conference July 2-3, 2006
• 2^nd Jewell Rasmussen Lecture in Economics, "The Blind Man and the Elephant: Competing Perspectives on Global Imbalances", by Professor Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley.
• Conference on Globalization, Inequality and Poverty, November 18-19, 2004. Co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Levy Economics Institute.
• 8^th Annual Rocco C. and Marion S. Siciliano Lecture, "Labor Goes Global: The Effect of Globalization on Worker Around the World," by Richard Freeman, Ascherman Professor of Economics at Havard University, and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. November 18, 2004
• International Conference on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics, June 20-22, 2004
• Macroeconomics of Asset Price Bubbles, February 27, 2004.
• 1^st Jewell Rasmussen Lecture in Economics, "The American Economy: Stategic Alternatives for Peace and Security," by James Galbraith, Lloyd Bensten Jr., Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Univeristy of Texas at Austin.
• International Conference on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics, June 2-4, 2003.