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6.-7.11.2009 at Paasitorni, Paasivuorenkatu 5 A, Helsinki
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Speakers`
profiles Registration
FORWARD – FUTURES AFTER THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
The financial
crisis that turned into a global economic recession has brought about detailed
analysis on the structural problems of the financial markets and the global
economic imbalances. Now is the time to look to the future and analyse the
implications of the crisis in economical, political and social life. What is to
come next? How to anticipate transformations and what are the policy solutions
available to shape the outcomes of the recession period?
The first plenary session of the Kalevi Sorsa Research and Policy Days will
focus on rethinking economic policy and sociological implications of the crisis
as well as offer perspectives of the future development. Will the crisis reshape
economic policy thinking? Will there be changes in values and behaviour of
individuals and what are the future trends in the social sphere? The discussion
will be opened by Lord Meghnad Desai , Professor Emeritus of Economics at
the London School of Economics and Political Science and Clive Hamilton ,
Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public
Ethics based at the Australian National University.
The plenary session of the second day is focused on the political
consequences of the crisis and the social democratic challenges ahead. What have
we learned in the aftermath of the crisis? What are the possibilities for
policy-making to respond to the challenges? The topic is introduced by Jón
Baldvin Hannibalsson , Former Minister for Foreign Affairs and External
Trade of Iceland, who discusses political implications and future prospects of
the crisis in the case of Iceland. Jenny Andersson , Associate Professor
of Economic History at Sciences Po in Paris will re-examine the legacy of the
Third Way project after the crisis.
Specific challenges and solutions
will be debated in five working groups on Friday 6th November. The themes to be
discussed are tax policy and income inequality, the possibilities of education
in employment policy, the challenges to health care, new growth policies and
strategies of green growth.
Registration
Working language
is English.
Additional information
is given by Kaija Korhonen, +358 40 3522
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Organised by
Foundation for
European Progressive Studies with the support of the Kalevi Sorsa Foundation
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