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.
World Policy Institute - Global Economic Architecture Program
| GLOBAL ECONOMIC ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM
Director: Sam Natapoff The Global Economic Architecture Project evaluates the political ramifications of global macroeconomics with a focus on U.S. foreign policy. It provides policy analysis examining global and domestic consequences of key political and economic events and trends for U.S. foreign policy, U.S. firms, and international institutions. Current projects include the strategic challenges facing U.S. foreign policy in January 2009, China’s evolving internet, the changing power of global financial markets, U.S. and international monetary policy, the constitutional and economic future of the European Union, the broader impact of Information Technology on the U.S. Economy, and Iran and the 2008 U.S. presidential election. For more information, email natapoff@worldpolicy.org. On December 20, 2007, the Global Economic Architecture Program organized "Iran in Campaign 2008: Myth Versus Reality in U.S. Policymaking," the first of a series of WPI briefings on key issues that will face the next U.S. president. GEAP Director Sam Natapoff moderated the discussion among The New York Times' Marcus Mabry, Amba. Peter Galbraith and Dr. Neguin Yavari, about how Iran shapes and is shaped by the current U.S. presidential election cycle. View the video below.
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