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Economic Theory Conferences
GDAE has held two conferences to bring together economists and researchers from other disciplines to focus on new directions for macroeconomic theory. The first conference, Rethinking Macroeconomics, held in 2002, dealt with both social and ecological issues in macroeconomics, exploring ways to broaden macro analysis to take account of new realities of globalization, transitional economies, inequality, national and international debt, and growing environmental problems. The conference informed the development of GDAE’s introductory text Macroeconomics in Context and resulted in the publication of New Thinking in Macroeconomics (Edward Elgar, 2003), bringing together contributions from conference participants on a variety of macroeconomic topics.
A second conference on Growth vs. Sustainability? Economic Responses to Ecological Challenges was held in November 2006. This conference featured an interchange among researchers from the Global North and South on the implications of global environmental problems, especially climate change, for macroeconomic theory and policy. Participants from China, Sri Lanka, Poland, Thailand, Mexico, the U.S., Malaysia, and the Czech Republic discussed the implications of new scientific evidence on climate change and its implications for macroeconomic policy in their countries and globally. Collected papers from the conference will form the basis of an edited volume on Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics: Responding to Climate Change to be published in 2008.
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