[Antiracism] What's the Economy For, Anyway? Conference

[Emily Kawano]

The Center for Popular Economics is proud to co-sponsor this exciting event. Hope to see you there!



WHAT'S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? CONFERENCE 

JOIN US TO ASK THE BIG QUESTION!!!

 

 



See the full schedule and register NOW at:   www.timeday.org/economyconference

 

WHEN: October 5-7, 2007

 

WHERE: Washington DC Convention Center (part of the annual Green Festival)

 

COST:  $35 (entire conference if you register before Sept. 15th!!!) or $50 (entire conference, no advance registration or $25 (per day).   Conference fee includes free admission to Green Festival.  Register NOW to assure a space at the conference!

 

What's the economy for, anyway?  Is it just about having the biggest GDP or the highest Dow Jones Average?  Or is it about providing for a healthy, happy, fair and sustainable society?  

 

If you think quality of life matters, and wonder how the United States compares to other countries when it comes to providing for its people, then the WHAT'S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? Conference is for you!  Dozens of prominent experts and activists will offers parts of the answer to the big question and offer out-of-the-box ideas about what we can do to make our economy serve us instead of vice-versa.  Three tracks include QUALITY OF LIFE, SOCIAL JUSTICE and SUSTAINABILITY.  

 

A number of CPE advisory board and staff economists will be presenting, including:



Nancy Folbre, feminist economist, author of The Invisible Heart

Jim Boyce, director of the environment program at the Political Economy Research Institute and author of Reclaiming Nature

Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American.

Hector Saez, prof. of environmental studies at Bainbridge Graduate Institute and Univ. of Vermont

Emily Kawano, director, Center for Popular Economics



Other speakers include:



Jerome Ringo, President of the Apollo Alliance

Gar Alperovitz, author of America After Capitalism

Vicki Robin, author of Your Money or Your Life

Riane Eisler, author of The Real Wealth of Nations, The Chalice and the Blade

Dean Baker, author of The United States Since 1980

Hunter Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism

John de Graaf, Take Back Your Time

Ann Crittenden, author of The Price of Motherhood

John Stauber, author of Trust Us, We're Experts, Weapons of Mass Deception

Jared Bernstein, director of The Economic Policy Institute

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, co-author of The Motherhood Manifesto

Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet, Hope's Edge

Karen Nussbaum, AFL-CIO, former director, Women's Bureau, US Dept. of Labor

Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy, The End of Nature

Peter Barnes, co-founder of Working Assets and author of Capitalism 3.0

Karen Kornbluh, Policy Director for Senator Obama

Miles Rapoport, director, DEMOS

David Moberg, Senior Editor, In These Times

Julie Nelson, author Economics for Humans

 

The conference offers 25 individual speeches and nearly 30 workshops.  To see the complete agenda, go to:

 

http://www.timeday.org/economyconference/agenda.asp

 

Workshops will include in-depth analysis of current problems, comparisons to the economic performance of other industrial countries, and concrete policy solutions for a happier, healthier, most just and sustainable United States.  Conference organizers hope that this conference will mark the beginning of a new national campaign to put the question, "What's the economy for, anyway?" on the agenda of the 2008 election campaigns and beyond.

 

Whether you consider yourself an environmentalist, an advocate of social justice, family-friendly policies or universal health care, a union organizer or enlightened business leader, a practitioner of simple living, a student of economics, psychology or politics, a journalist or a wonk, a Democrat, moderate Republican or Green, this conference is for you.

 

The "What's the Economy for, Anyway?" project is a program of the Forum on Social Wealth.  Financial support for the project comes from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

The conference is self-supporting and made possible by a generous donation of space from the Green Festival.

 

 

Contact:          John de Graaf:            jodg at comcast.net  (206) 443-6747

or Laura Pacheco:      laurapacheco at comcast.net  (617) 694-7998

 
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