Forum
Monday, May 11, 2009
2:00-5:00 pm
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall
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Forum on Globalization and Living Standards in the Advanced EconomiesPresented by: Richard Freeman, Harvard and London School of Economics and Edward Leamer, UCLA Anderson |
About the speakers
Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He is also director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
Professor Freeman is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Sigma Xi. He has served on five panels of the National Academy of Sciences, including the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists. He has published over 300 articles dealing with a wide range of research interests including the job market for scientists and engineers; the growth and decline of unions; the effects of immigration and trade on inequality; restructuring European welfare states; Chinese labor markets; transitional economies; youth labor market problems; crime; self-organizing non-unions in the labor market; employee involvement programs; and income distribution and equity in the marketplace. He is currently directing the NBER / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Project (with Daniel Goroff).
In addition, Professor Freeman has written or edited over 35 books, several of which have been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. Some of his books include: America Works: The Exceptional Labor Market (2007), What Workers Want? (2006, 1999), Seeking a Premiere League Economy (2004), Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the 21st Century (2004), Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization? w/ Kimberly Ann Elliott (2003), Inequality Around the World - IEA Conference Volume #134 (2002), and Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries (2000).
Edward Leamer is director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, which provides quarterly economic projections for the nation and the state of California. In its December 2000 release, the UCLA Anderson Forecast http://www.uclaforecast.com was the first of the blue chip forecasters to accurately predict a recession in 2001. Professor Leamer holds the Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management at UCLA Anderson, along with joint academic appointments in the departments of statistics and economics, where he served as chair from 1983 to 1987.
Professor Leamer's research interests cover a broad set of topics in the analysis of non-experimental data and the economics of globalization.Among his recent areas of interests are an episodic analysis of the United States business cycle, the impact of the Internet on economic geography, the effect of globalization on the U.S. economy and the potential impact of the FTAA on inequality in Latin America. He has written research papers on the North American Free Trade Agreement, the dismantling of the Swedish welfare state, the economic integration of Eastern Europe with Western Europe and Taiwan with Mainland China.
Professor Leamer is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and a frequent visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He served on Governor Pete Wilson's Council of Economic Advisors from 1995 to 1998 and more recently, he advised California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger.This event is co-sponsored with the UCLA Center for Social Theory and Comparative History
