Recent Events

01/23/2009 – William Lazonick
“Accumulating Education and Experience in a Global Economy,” Workshop on Education and Economic Growth, Geneva, Switzerland.

02/24/2009 - Chris Tilly
forum on “A second Great Depression or a second New Deal?”  “Inequality and policies to overcome it.”  UCLA Public Interest Law and Policy Group, Los Angeles, CA.

02/26/20009 – William Lazonick
“Globalization of the High-Tech Labor Force”, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.

03/05/2009 – William Lazonick
“Innovative Enterprise”, National University of Ireland Galway.

03/10/2009 - Chris Tilly
“Wal-Mart and beyond: How national institutions shape retail jobs around the world.” MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research Seminar, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

04/07/2009 - Chris Tilly
“How national institutions matter: Comparing food retail jobs in France and the US.” International Labour Process Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.

05/12/2009 - Chris Tilly
“Wal-Mart and beyond: What retail jobs around the world tell us about HR strategy and public policy.” UCLA Anderson School of Management, Executive Seminar, Los Angeles, CA.

05/21/2009 – William Lazonick
“The New Economy Business Model and the Crisis of US Capitalism”, Conference on Financial Institutions and Economic Security, London, UK.

05/29/2009 – William Lazonick and Oner Tulum
“US Biopharmaceutical Finance and the Sustainability of the Biotech Boom”, Industry Studies Conference, Chicago, Illinois

06/17/2009 - Chris Tilly
“Globalization?  What globalization?  How national institutions determine job quality in retail around the world” (talk given in Spanish). “Unregulated work: Research and public policy for a growing trend in the U.S. labor market” (talk given in Spanish).   Departments of Political Science and Sociology, University of São Paulo, seminar. São Paulo, Brazil

06/24/2009 – William Lazonick
“The Theory of Innovative Enterprise”, Keynote speaker, Conference on Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

07/072009 - Chris Tilly
one day of mini-course “Work and inequality in a global economy.”  “Cross-national differences in workplaces: Consequences for workers, challenges for researchers.” Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

08/08/2009 - Chris Tilly
American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA

09/17/2009 - Chris Tilly
“Globalization?  What globalization?  How national institutions determine job quality in retail around the world.” and “Latin America’s third left: Autonomy and participation in the new political landscape,” with Marie Kennedy. Indiana University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Department of Geography.
 
10/2/2009 – William Lazonick and Oner Tulum
“Financing the US Biopharmaceutical Industry,” Atlanta Conference on Innovation and Science Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

10/3/2009 – William Lazonick
“The New Economic Business Model and High-Tech Employment in the United States,” Atlanta Conference on Innovation and Science Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

10/08/2009 - Chris Tilly
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and co-sponsors, conference on “Work and Inequality in the Global Economy: China, Mexico, and the United States

10/12/2009 – William Lazonick
“The Fragility of the US Economy,” The Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism, New School for Social Research, New York

10/23/2009 – William Lazonick
“Sustainable Prosperity: What It Is and How We Can Achieve It,” Conference on the Collapse of Middle Income Jobs”, Midwest Innovation Initiative, Institute for Work and the Economy, Chicago

10/26/2009 – William Lazonick
“The New Economy Business Model and the Crisis of US Capitalism,” Business History
Seminar, Harvard Business School, Boston

11/2/2009 – William Lazonick
“The Theory of Innovative Enterprise,” Gosnell Lecture, Department of Economics, Rochester Institute of Technology

11/2/2009 – William Lazonick
“Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy?, Department of Science, technology, and Society/Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology

11/6/2009 – William Lazonick
“The New Economy Business Model and the Crisis of US Capitalism,” 2009 International Technological Innovation Management and Policy Symposium, Institute of Industrial Economics of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing

11/10/2009 – William Lazonick
“The Fragility of the US Economy,” School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing

11/11/2009 – William Lazonick
 “The New Economy Business Model and the Crisis of US Capitalism,” School of Public Policy, Beijing University, Beijing

11/14/2009 - Chris Tilly
Social Science History Association annual meeting, session  on “Cities, States, Trust and Rule: New Departures from the Work of Charles Tilly.”  “Cities, states, and trust networks,” with Michael Hanagan.  Long Beach, CA.

12/04/2009 – William Lazonick
“The Explosion(s) in Executive Pay and the Erosion of American Prosperity,” Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV

12/05/2009 – William Lazonick
“US Biopharmaceutical Finance and the Sustainability of the Biotech Boom”, Workshop on Finance, Innovation, and Growth, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV