From Top to Bottom: Karl Marx / John Maynard Keynes / Adam Smith / Joan Robinson / David Ricardo / Joseph Alois Schumpeter

From Top to Bottom: Rosa Luxemburg / Rudolf Hilferding / Piero Sraffa / Michael Kalecki / John Kanneth Galbraith / Nicholas Kaldor

From Top to Bottom: Karl Marx / John Maynard Keynes / Adam Smith / Joan Robinson / David Ricardo / Joseph Alois Schumpeter

From Top to Bottom: Rosa Luxemburg / Rudolf Hilferding / Piero Sraffa / Michael Kalecki / John Kanneth Galbraith / Nicholas Kaldor

From Top to Bottom: Karl Marx / John Maynard Keynes / Adam Smith / Joan Robinson / David Ricardo / Joseph Alois Schumpeter

From Top to Bottom: Rosa Luxemburg / Rudolf Hilferding / Piero Sraffa / Michael Kalecki / John Kanneth Galbraith / Nicholas Kaldor

From Top to Bottom: Karl Marx / John Maynard Keynes / Adam Smith / Joan Robinson / David Ricardo / Joseph Alois Schumpeter

From Top to Bottom: Rosa Luxemburg / Rudolf Hilferding / Piero Sraffa / Michael Kalecki / John Kanneth Galbraith / Nicholas Kaldor

HESA Lecture Schedules

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Lecture Schedules

Unless otherwise stated HESA lectures are held in BUC 306 (JJR) at 1:30. Everyone - graduate students, faculty, undergraduates as well as anyone interested are encouraged to attend.

Fall 2005

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9/16/2005 Jim Gender, Department of Economics, University of Utah

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9/23/2005 Jane D’Arista, Financial Markets Center

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9/30/2005 Mat Forestater, University of Missouri at Kansas City

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10/14/2005 TBA

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10/21/2005 Ilene Grabel, University of Denver

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10/28/2005 TBA

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11/4/2005 Ed Nell, New School University (cancelled)

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11/11/2005 Tom Palley, US-China Security Council (cancelled)

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11/18/2005 David Howell, Milano School of Management, New School University

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12/2/2005 David Laibman, CUNY

Fall 2004

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10/1/2004 Julio Lopez, UNAM

“Macroeconomic Effects of Trade Liberalization in Latin America ”

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10/15/2004 Al Campbell

“Economic Planning in Cuba ”

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10/22/2004 Ed Nell

(sponsored by Dept., TBA)

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10/29/2004 Matias Vernengo

“Fiscal Policy and the Washington Consensus:

A Post Keynesian Perspective”

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11/ 5/2004 Erdogan Bakir

"The Temporal Single System Interpretation of the Marxian Transformation Problem"

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11/12/2004 Steve Reynolds

, “Using Corporate Income and Balance Sheets to Decipher the Causes of the Asian Crisis

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November 19 Conference on Globalization, Inequality, and Poverty: Session on the developing world, 9-11:30: Alumni House

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12/3/2004 Gunseli Berik

"Export-led Growth, Gendered Well-being and Equity in East Asia "

Spring 2004

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02/06/2004 Ebru Voyvoda

"Notes on IMF Fiscal Programming and Alternatives in Debt Management: The Case of Turkey."

Abstract:
In this paper we investigate the fiscal policy alternatives on domestic debt management, cohort welfare, and growth for the Turkish economy. We utilize a model of growth in the overlapping generations (OLG) tradition with open capital markets, calibrated to the Turkish economy in 1990s. We examine the macroeconomic effects of the current IMF-led austerity program driven by the objective of attaining primary fiscal surpluses and illustrate the sensitivity of the program targets to growth shocks. Our results suggest that the current fiscal program based on the primary surplus objective succeeds in containing the explosive dynamics of debt accumulation, and yet, the path of aggregate public debt as a ratio to GNP displays significant degree of inertia and would be brought down only gradually and slowly. We then examine various taxation alternatives to mitigate the reductions in the availability of public funds to reproducible factors of production. The current fiscal program based on the primary surplus objective suffers from serious trade offs on growth and fiscal targets, and that an alternative public expenditure program supported by tax reform over wealth income is likely to produce superior economic performance.

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02/13/2004 Mathias Vernengo

"Dependency Revisited"

Abstract:
The surge in academic work on globalization has made several of the topics dear to
authors of the dependency school relevant once again. Therefore a reconsideration
of dependency theory seems to be appropriate. There are at least two approaches
to dependency. This paper analyzes critically their similarities, differences and
limitations, in particular regarding the role of technology, and international finance in
the explanation of Center and Periphery interactions. This paper argues that in that
respect both versions of dependency resemble neoclassical economics, which sees
technical progress, i.e. supply side forces, as the main limitation to economic growth
and development.

Fall 2003

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11/14/2003 John B. Ostbo
“Project Finance: An Economic Development Tool”

Abstract:
Project Finance is well suited to fund a variety of projects which may be structured on a stand-alone basis, such that the Cash Flows and Assets of the project become the sole sources of funds for timely Debt Service and generation of satisfactory NPV and IRR to attract quality Owners. Hence, Project Finance is a modern funding methodology, focusing on project risks, and in particular the mitigation and allocation of such risks, to contribute towards the long term sustainability of a particular business venture, which is deemed essential to achieve sustainable economic development.

Such projects may involve the construction of large industrial production facilities based on minerals, oil and gas, or other natural resources. Infrastructure projects in emerging countries, as well as certain sectors of developed economies, in such areas as transportation, power production, and water facilities, are also expected to rely increasingly on Project Finance funding. Mergers and Acquisitions requiring new capital, is another area of application, especially when partners have significantly different Credit Ratings.

Implementation of the Project Finance funding methodology typically require a broad range of professionals to collaborate 3 – 9 months; incl. Finance experts, Economists, Engineers, Marketing experts, Government Regulators, and not to forget Lawyers. Hence, students in many fields might benefit from taking a course in Project finance to prepare for subsequent job assignments, rather than having to learn on-the-job as their particular fields of expertise have to be adapted to the implementation of Project Finance.

The main objective of the presentation is to provide an initial overview of Project Finance to students assessing whether taking such a course might be an interesting supplement in their tool-box as the world of work requires increasing job assignment mobility. Administrators and Professors contemplating offering such a course may also find an initial overview of the essential features of the Project Finance methodology useful.

Spring 2003

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01/31/03 Heterodox Economics Education Workshop Meeting:
"Criterion for Choosing the Textbooks"

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Economics Faculty and Graduate Students
02/15/03 Nilufer Cagatay, Al Campbell, Korkut Erturk
Faculty, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Porto Allegre: A Better World is Possible"

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02/21/03 Heterodox Economics Education Workshop Meeting:
"Criterion for Choosing the Textbooks-2"
Economics Faculty and Graduate Students

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02/28/03 Nilufer Cagatay and Al Campbell
Faculty, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Reporting Back from Porto Allegre"

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03/07/03 Al Campbell, Economics Department
Deen Chatterjee, Philosophy Department
Broke Hopkins, English Department
Francis ReMillard, Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land
"Working for Peace in the Middle East"
(Co-sponsored with "Committee for Peace in the Middle East")

Fall 2002

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09/27/02 Shahrukh Rafi Khan
Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Executive Director
"Revenue Distribution Across Value Chains:
The Case Of Home Based Sub-Contracted Workers In Pakistan"

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11/08/02 Kim Ky Won
Professor of Economics, Korea National Open University
"Corporate Restructuring: With an Emphasis on Jaebeol"

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10/11/02 Heterodox Economics Education Workshop Meeting:
"An Alternative Approach to Undergraduate Curriculum"
Economics Faculty and Graduate Students

Spring 2002

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02/01/02 Justin Elardo & Al Campbell
"Is the Neoclassical Model a General Model of Economic Choice?
A Formal Presentation of Three Institutionalist Criticisms"

Justin Elardo is a Ph.D candidate and Dr. Al Campbell is the chair of his committee and a professor in the Department of Economics.

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03/15/02 Jeff Bookwalter (11:00 AM)
"A Study of the Relationships Between People's Perceptions of their Well-Being, and Various Household Social and Economic Indicators."

Dr. Jeff Bookwalter is a professor of economics at the University of Montana and a graduate of the department of economics.

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03/15/02 Pam Perlich
"The Politics of Population Growth in Utah: Experiences of an Applied Economist"

Dr. Pam Perlich is Senior Research Economist with the Bureau of Economic and Business Research
at the University of Utah. Dr. Perlich is also a graduate of the department of economics.

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03/22/02 Alan E. Isaacson (BUC 108)
"American's Pragmatic Approach to Capitalism: An Example from the
Electric Power Industry" The presentation will cover

What happened last year in California
Structure of the US and Utah power industry and
Adding a little discussion on the presence of 40 municipal utilities
in Utah and 9 cooperatives apparently contradicting Utahn's often stated
belief in free enterprise.

Alan E. Isaacson is a Research Analyst with the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the
University of Utah.

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03/29/02 Panel Discussion: Dr. Korkut Erturk & Dr. Kenneth Jameson (12:30 in BUC 306 (JJR))
"Currency Crises in Emerging Market Economies"

Dr. Erturk and Dr. Jameson are both professors in the department of economics.

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04/05/02 George Neckle
"Jobs With Justice"

Utah Jobs with Justice is a coalition of labor, faith-based, community and student organizations and individuals dedicated to protecting the rights of working people and supporting community struggles to build a more just society. We are committed to the creation of family wage jobs, support for organizing both here and abroad, and maintaining pressure to demand corporate accountability in our communities. JwJ gives priority to struggles involving the most vulnerable workers in our community: low wage workers, immigrants, people of color, women and youth. JwJ mobilizes support for labor and community struggles at rallies, on picket lines, in educational settings and at meetings and hearings. JwJ believes that direct action is an important part of supporting these campaigns. We are committed to creating a chapter that is fully inclusive and welcoming to everyone.

Mr. Neckle will be discussing the organization and its recent campaigns in the Salt Lake Valley as well as the need to establish a branch of the Student Labor Action Program (SLAP) at the University of Utah.

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04/12/02 Open Discussion-2 (Kansas City Proposal)

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04/19/02 Gunseli Berik
"Globalization and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from East Asia"

Gunseli Berik is a professor in the department of economics and she is presenting a paper that she has co-authored with Yana van der Muelen Rodgers, and Joseph Zveglich

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04/26/02 Open Discussion-3: Curriculum

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05/03/02 Darren Bush

S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
"That's the Night the Lights Went Out in California:
The Rise and Fall of California's Energy Markets"

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05/10/02 HESA MOVIE DAY "Bread & Roses" (Time and Location to be announced)

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05/17/02 Howard Waitzkin, M.D., Ph.D.
"Exportation of Managed Care to Developing Countries"

Howard Waitzkin is Professor of Medical Science, University of New Mexico

Fall 2001

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10/19/01 Peter von Sievers
Associate Professor Department of History
"A New Look At World Economic History 1500-1800"

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10/26/01 Nilufer Cagatay
Associate Professor Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Trade, Gender & Poverty"

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11/09/01 Erik Nicholson and Javier Velasquez
PCUN - Oregon Farmworkers Union
"Strike Action PictSweet"

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11/16/01 Gerard Dumenil
Professor of Economics, The University of Paris
Neoliberalism: Nature, Order, Disorders, and Future

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11/30/01 Tracy Mott
Professor of Economics, The University of Denver
"Unresolved Issues in a Kaleckian Perspective on Macroeconomics."

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12/07/01 Gail Blattenberger
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Meta Analysis and Water Demand"

Spring 2001

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02/02/01 Tom Maloney
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Migration, Race, and Economic Opportunity in the World War I Era"

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02/09/01 Guest Speaker
Darren Bush
U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division
"Antitrust Issues Raised by E-Commerce and the Internet"

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02/13/01 Guest Speaker:
Mete Madra
Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"Reciprocity and Economics: An Inquiry on Methodological Individualistic and Formalistic Approaches"

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02/23/01 Guest Speaker
Robert Owen
Professor, Department of Economics, University Nantes, France
"European Economic and Monetary Integration: Conceptual and Policy Issues"

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03/09/01 Yavuz Yasar
Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"The Profit Rate-Interest Rate Relationship in the Writings of Karl Marx"

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03/23/01 Guest Speaker:
Mucahit Bilici
Department of Political Science, University of Utah
"Islam and the Public Sphere: The Case of Caprice Hotel in Turkey"

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03/30/01 Fikret Adaman
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Title Forthcoming"

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04/06/01 Cihan Bilginsoy
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Title Forthcoming"

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04/13/01 Guest Speaker:
Ibrahim Karawan
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Utah
"Political Management & Mismanagement of Economic Reforms"

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04/20/01 Norman Waitzman
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Polarized Communities, Unhealthy Lifes: An Analysis of Mortality in Metropolitan America."

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04/27/01 Guest Speaker:
Tracy Mott
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Denver
"Structure, Ignorance, or Conflict: Why Do We Have Economic Recessions?"

Fall 2000

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09/15/00 David Kiefer
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"International Arms Trade After the Cold War"

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09/22/00 Viswa Ghosh
Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"A Dual Currency System for Restructuring the International Financial Architecture."

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10/29/00 Guest Speaker:
Gérard Duménil
CREMAP, France
"Periodizing Capitalism. Technology, Institutions, and Relations of Production."

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10/13/00 Al Campbell
Research Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Democratic Planned Socialism Vs. Market Socialism"

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10/20/00 John Rodgers
Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"United States Profit Rates: Trends in the post World War II Economy"

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11/03/00 Korkut Erturk
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Making Sense of the East Asian Crisis"
VII. 11/10/00 Justin Elardo & Chace Stiehl
Graduate Students, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"The Living Wage"

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11/17/00 Guest Speaker:
Edward Epstein
Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Utah
"Neo-Liberal Labor Reform in Argentina and Chile"

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12/01/00 Guest Speaker
John Cawley
Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan.
"Body Weight and Women's Labor Market Outcomes"

Spring 2000

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01/21/00 Guest Speaker:
Antonio Armas
Havanna, Cuba
"Cuba Today: Reforms and Building Socialism"

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02/04/00 Guest Speaker:
Fikret Adaman
Associate Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
"A Reconsideration of the Theory of Entrepreneurship: A Participatory Approach"

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02/25/00 Anupam Tyagi
Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Economic Growth and Carbon Dioxide Emissions (1950-1996): Static and Dynamic Aspects"

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03/03/00 Peter Kraus

Fall 1999

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Julie Nelson
Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Framing Effects in the Public Land-Use Decision making Process."

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10/22/99 Mark Lautzenheiser
Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"The Classical-Marx-Keynes Connection in Monetary Theory."

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10/29/99 Gunseli Berik
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Mature Export-Led Growth & Gender Wage Inequality in Taiwan."

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11/05/99 Guest Speaker:
Simel Esim
International Center On Women, Washington, D.C.
"Methods and Tools in Engendering Budgets: Opportunities and Challenges"

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11/19/99 Guest Speaker:
Ashwini Chhatre,
Himachal Pradesh, India
"The Dilemma of Conservation: Science, People and Politics"

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12/03/99 Lance Girton
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah
"Problems of Financial Commitments that Might Fail to be Honored"

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We are now accepting proposals for Fall 2003 and Spring 2004 seminars/presentations. Send your name, title of the presentation, preferred date (try to make it a Friday), and a brief abstract to: hesa@econ.sbs.utah.edu . We also try to bring in speakers from outside the department so please let us know of someone that you would like to see present at a HESA seminar. HESA is able to pay guest speakers from outside the University an honorarium plus cover some travel expenses.

HESA presentations are very diverse. The presentations can range from very abstract and mathematically oriented discussions of econometrics and microeconomic theory to barn storming presentations by labor unions and activists groups. All of the topics have an economic focus but true to the mission of HESA that focus is broadly defined to include more than simply discussions of the shape of an indifference curves or the existence of bliss points. We have had presentations on socialism in Cuba, the preservation of national parks in India, the conditions of work among migrant farm laborers in Oregon, corruption in Thailand, new directions in Macroeconomics, the cliometrics of labor force mobility in the early 20th century, the state of microeconomics. The presentations are mainstream and heterodox which is true to our mission to keep the field of analysis and approaches in Economics as open and diverse as possible. Above all we are a friendly and open minded group!

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