Sovereign Debt in the United States and Europe : real issues and false evidence
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Second seminar in partnership with FAF (French-American Foundation, France) and IRE (International Initiative for Rethinking the Economy).
Soveriegn debt and economic risk play central role in the public debate today. The economic contexts and institutions vary on the two sides of the Atlantic however, the cases have a convergence of key and underdiscussed questions: the causes of high debt and the resulting lessons; mediation between debt and growth; how to finance sovereign debt....
We will welcome James Galbraith, professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs where he leads a research project on inequality. (University of Texas Inequality Project). He is also President of the Association of Economists for Peace and Security. His most recent piece was translated to French, L'État prédateur : comment la droite a renoncé au marché libre et pourquoi la gauche devrait en faire autant (Seuil 2009).
With the participation of Christian de Boissieu, professor at the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Vice-President of the Council for Economic Analysis; and of Henri Sterdyniak, Director of the Economy of Globalization Department at the OFCE, Associated Professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine.
Facilitator : Christophe Guillemin, Executive Director of the French-American Foundation, France.
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