It's a Funny World
With the Taliban going strong and the polar ice caps melting away, we wouldn’t blame you for feeling like there's nothing to laugh about - until now. You may not have thought policy wonks were funny, but we’re about to prove you wrong with a special evening of international stand-up comedy benefiting World Policy Journal
featuring professional comedians and friends of the World Policy Institute:
- Ophira Eisenberg
- WPI Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer
- Kevin Bleyer
- Robert George
- Emcee Christian Finnegan
Monday, September 13
7 -8:30 pm
at COMIX, 343 West 14th Street
The End of the Free Market
WPI Senior Fellow Ian Bremmer recounts the battle between state capitalism and the free market. Detailing the rise of state-owned firms in China, Russia, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Iran, Venezuela, and elsewhere, he demonstrates the growing challenge that state capitalism will pose for the entire global economy.
WPI - Arms Trade Resource Center: Economics of Security Study Group - October 15, 2004
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ARMS TRADE RESOURCE CENTER Dear Friends, So far we have had a good response for the Fall semester's first meeting of the "Study Group on the Economics of Security in the Post 9/11 World." We look forward to hearing that more of you will attend. Our topic will be "Economic and Budgetary Aspects of the War on Terror," led by David Gold, Professor of Economics with the New School's Graduate Program in International Affairs and Cindy Williams, Senior Research Fellow in MIT's Security Studies Program. Professor Gold's "Some Economic Considerations in the U.S. War on Terrorism," which was published in The Quarterly Journal, and Professor Williams' "Paying for the War on Terrorism: U.S. Security Choices since 9/11," a paper prepared for an ECAAR Panel on "Real Homeland Security" are attached as PDF files. A more in-depth article by Professor Gold can be found on Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), as a teaching case study, Economics of Terrorism, www.ciaonet.org/casestudy/god01 We hope you will join us for this timely and stimulating discussion. After this message, please find a complete list of the dates and locations of upcoming study group meetings. WHERE: Room 720, 66 Fifth Avenue (betweem 12th and 13th) WHEN: FRIDAY, October 15, 2004, 2:30 TO 4 P.M. RSVP TO: Frida Berrigan, berrigaf@newschool.edu Co-sponsored by: The Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) and the World Policy Institute at New School University (NSU) Convenors: David Gold, Master's Program in International Affairs, New School University and Bill Hartung, Arms Trade Resource Center, World Policy Institute Please RSVP to Frida Berrigan at berrigaf@newschool.edu Schedule for 2004/2005 Study Group Session October 15, 2004, 66 W 12th; Room 510 |
