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Name: Economics as a Discipline and Profession | Event
Start: 2015-02-06T18:15:00-05:00
End: 2015-02-06T19:15:00-05:00
Location: Economics as a Discipline and Profession | Event

Economics as a Discipline and Profession

Past Series, The Disciplines Series

February 6, 2015 Friday, 6:15pm EST The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University

Organizer

Akeel Bilgrami

Notes

Free and open to the public
No registration necessary
Photo ID required for entry

James Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government, converses with Prahbat Patnaik, one of India's most prominent economists and Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning School of Social Sciences. Galbraith and Patnaik discuss the role, status, position of economics in the academy and in contemporary society.

Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, will chair the talk.

Participants

Joseph E. Stiglitz University Professor Columbia University
James K. Galbraith Professor of Government LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
Prabhat Patnaik Professor Emeritus, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning Jawaharlal Nehru University

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