<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Please distribute widely!</span></font><br><br>Cambridge Forum<br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>cambridgeforum.org<br><br>Release April 4, 2012<br><br>Cambridge Forum Mini-Conference: Challenges of Globalization -- Economic Globalization <br><br>On
Monday April 16, 2012 Cambridge Forum hosts a mini-conference on
Economic Globalization. Staring at 2 pm, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Kuttner</span> of The American
Prospect and Demos moderates a series of speakers discussing the impact of
globalization on American workers, investors, and consumers. How has
economic globalization affected our sense of security and economic
well-being? <span style="font-weight: bold;"> Robert Pollin</span> looks at “Globalization of Labor: Is A Race
to the Bottom Inevitable?”;<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Robert Scott </span>examines world-wide movements
of capital in “Globalization of Capital: The Rise of the
Multinationals;” and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Harold Meyerson</span> asks “ Do Corporations Need
American Consumers?” in a discussion of “Globalization of Markets.”
“The Globalization Paradox,” proposing effective responses to the forces
of globalization is the subject of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dani Rodrik</span>’s evening keynote at
7:00 pm.<br><br>Robert Pollin is Co-director of the Political Economy
Research Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. His research centers on macroeconomics,
conditions for low-wage workers in the U.S. and globally, the analysis
of financial markets, and the economics of building a clean-energy
economy in the United States. His most recent book is Back To Full
Employment from MIT Press. <br><br>Robert E. Scott is Director of Trade
and Manufacturing Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute. His
research interests include international economics, trade agreements,
global finance, the economic impacts of foreign investment and
“insourcing,”and the macroeconomic effects of trade and capital flows.
His research has been widely published in professional and popular
journals. <br><br>Harold Meyerson is the editor-at-large at The American
Prospect and a columnist for The Washington Post. His articles on
politics, labor, the economy, foreign policy, and American culture have
also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The
Nation, The New Statesman; the op-ed, commentary, and book review
sections of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles
Times, and in numerous other publications.<br><br>Dani Rodrik is the
Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has published
widely in the areas of international economics, economic development,
and political economy. What constitutes good economic policy and why
some governments are better than others in adopting it are the central
questions on which his research focuses. His most recent research is
concerned with the determinants of economics growth and the consequences
of international economic integration.<br><br>Rodrik’s 1997 book <span style="font-style: italic;">Has
Globalization Gone Too Far?</span> was called one of the most important
economics books of the decade in Business Week. He is also the author
of One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and
Economic Growth and of The New Global Economy and Developing Countries:
Making Openness Work. His new book The Globalization Paradox is the
basis for our discussion of the possible responses to economic
globalization and their effectiveness in securing Americans’ economic
well-being.<br><br>This program is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which
receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is a state
affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.<br><br>Cambridge
Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are
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