Priority in Practice: A Research Network

 

Equality and the New Global Order

 

Harvard University, May 11 – May 13, 20006

 

Day 1: Foundational Questions

 

Speaker: Philippe van Parijs, Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale,  Université catholique de Louvain and Harvard University

Title: “Linguistic Justice and Global Justice” 

Commentator: Michael Blake, University of Washington, Philosophy and Public Policy

 

Speakers: Allen Buchanan, Duke University, Philosophy, and Robert Keohane, Princeton University, Politics and Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Title: “Inequality, Justice, and Multilateral Institutions”

Commentator: Thomas Scanlon, Harvard University, Philosophy

 

Speaker: Leif Wenar, University of Sheffield, Philosophy

Title: “The Future of Global Equality”

Commentator: Mattias Kumm, New York University, Law

 

Speaker: Lawrence Summers, Harvard University, Economics and President of the University

Title: “Conceptions of Global Fairness”

Commentator: Jonathan Wolff, University College London, Philosophy 

 

Day 2: Institutions

 

Speaker: Kaushik Basu, Cornell University, Economics

Title: “Labor Regulation in a Globalizing World”

Commentator: Sabina Alkire, Harvard University, Global Equity Initiative 

 

 

 

Speaker: Dani Rodrik, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government

Title: “What Kind of Global Institutions Will Accelerate Global Economic Catch-up?”

Commentator: Joshua Cohen, MIT, Politics and Philosophy

 

 

Speaker: Mathias Risse, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government

Title: “Fairness in Trade”

Commentator: Judith Goldstein, Stanford University, Political Science 

 

 

Speaker: Branco Milanovic, World Bank

Title: “Does concern with global inequality require a different approach to international aid?

Commentator: Sanjay Reddy, Columbia University, Economics 

 

 

Day 3: Global Public Health

Speaker: Thomas Pogge, Columbia University and Australian National University

Title: “Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research — Must they exclude the global poor from advanced medicines?”

Commentator: Ani Satz, Emory University, Law

 

 

Speaker: Norman Daniels, Harvard University, Public Health

Title: “Global Health Inequalities – a Matter of Justice?”

Commentator: Elizabeth Ashford, University of St. Andrews, Philosophy, and Harvard University, Center for Ethics

 

 

Speaker: Angus Deaton, Princeton University, Economics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Title: “Global Patterns of Income and Health: Facts and Implications”

Commentator: Gopal Sreenivasan, University of Toronto, Philosophy 

 

 

Speaker: Ruth Macklin, Yeshiva University, Einstein College of Medicine

Title: “Women’s Health: Are Global Inequalities Greater than those for Men?”

Commentator: Rebecca Cook, University of Toronto, Law

 

 

 

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