UBS Center Newsletter Juni 2017

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Forum “How to Deal with the Globalization
Backlash?” on November 13, 2017
2016 was the year when the basic tenets of globaliza-
tion were challenged – first in the UK and then in the
U.S. – What does its future hold?
The 2017 UBS Center Forum for Economic Dialogue
features leading specialists from all sectors to share
and debate their latest insights on globalization. The
program includes three different sessions:
Morning Session: “Free trade – an idea in decline?”
Afternoon Session: “How to do business amidst the
globalization backlash?”
Disputation: “How much globalization do we want?”
Panelists include Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business
School), David Dorn (University of Zurich), Kevin
O’Rourke (University of Oxford), Beatrice Weder di
Mauro (University of Mainz), and others.
This years’ Zurich Lecture of
Economics in Society will be
delivered by Dani Rodrik, one
of the most important political
economists of our time. Profes-
sor Rodrik is the Ford Founda-
tion Professor of International
Political Economy at Harvard’s
John F. Kennedy School of
Government. His research
covers globalization, economic
growth and development, and
political economy.
Lecture “Poor Economics: A Radical Rethink-
ing of the Way to Fight Global Poverty?” on
September 21, 2017
The Department of Economics is hosting a public
lecture with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who
will present the latest insights from their research on
global poverty.
Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif
Jameel Professor of Poverty
Alleviation and Development
Economics at the Department
of Economics at MIT and a
co-founder and co-director of
the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty
Action Lab (J-PAL). In her re-
search, she seeks to understand
the economic lives of the poor,
with the aim to help design and evaluate social poli-
cies. She has worked on health, education, financial
inclusion, environment and governance.
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is
currently the Ford Founda-
tion International Professor of
Economics at MIT. In 2003 he
founded the Abdul Latif Ja-
meel Poverty Action Lab
(J-PAL), along with Esther Du-
flo and Sendhil Mullainathan,
and remains one of the direc-
tors of the lab. His areas of
research are development economics and economic
theory.
Furthermore, Professor Banerjee will be the speaker
in the UBS Center Seminar on September 20, 2017.
The detailed program together with further infor-
mation on the speakers and how to register will
be available in due course.
The detailed program together with further infor-
mation on how to register will be available in due
course.
Outlook
Dani Rodrik will pre-
sent the latest insights
of his research on
globalization.
Public Lecture & Forum for Economic Dialogue