Program for the Fifth Meeting of the Working Group on Wealth and Power in the Post-Industrial Era
University of California at Los Angeles
February 8-9, 2008
Papers will be linked to as they are available
Friday, February 8
Room B208 Gold Hall
Anderson Graduate School of Management
Hotel shuttle reserved to leave hotel at 7:30 am
8:00-8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30-12:00 Graduate student session (half hour per student) with comments by Miriam Golden and Edward Leamer, as well as other faculty participants
- Matt Carnes, Political Science, Stanford
- Tasha Fairfield, Political Science, Berkeley
- Sun Go, Economics, Davis
- Alex Kuo, Political Science, Stanford
- Brian Min, Political Science, UCLA
- Sharad Tandon, Economics, Berkeley
- Andres Zambrano, Economics, UCLA
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-1:00 Introductory remarks, Miriam Golden and Ed Leamer (UCLA)
1:00-2:30 Panel on Immigration
- "Political Consequences of Immigration in the US," Nolan McCarty (Princeton), Keith Poole (UCSD), and Howard Rosenthal (NYU) REVISED
- "Skills, Immigration and Productivity," Giovanni Peri (UC Davis)
2:30-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-4:30 Panel on Redistribution and Social Insurance
- "Redistribution Preferences and Party Choice in the OECD: The Political Consequences of Inequality," David Rueda (Oxford) and Jonas Pontusson (Princeton)
- "Rising Tides, Redistribution, and the Material Well-Being of the Poor," Lane Kenworthy (Arizona)
Hotel shuttle reserved to leave Anderson at 5:00 pm
Hotel shuttle reserved to leave hotel at 6:30 pm for restaurant
7:00 Dinner
Napa Valley Grille
1100 Glendon Avenue Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tel: 310.824.3322
Hotel shuttle reserved to pick up at restaurant at 8:30 pm
Saturday, February 9
Meet in Bunche 9383
Note that we are meeting in a different building than Friday
Hotel shuttle reserved to leave hotel at 7:30 am to arrive at Anderson by 7:45 am. Walk from Anderson to Bunche.
8:00-8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30-11:00 Panel on Globalization and Shifting Relations between First and Third World Nations
- "Globalization and the Environment," Matt Kahn (UCLA)
- "The Missing Link in the Labor and Trade Debate," Katherine Stone (UCLA)
- "The Diffusion of Development," Enrico Spolaore (Tufts) and Romain Wacziarg (UCLA)
10:00-10:15 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Panel on Wage and Income Inequality
- "Gender Equality at Home: A Comparative Study of the Wife's Earnings in Advanced Industrial Countries," Margarita Estévez-Abe (Harvard)
- "Inequality in the 20th Century US," Frank Levy and Peter Temin (MIT)
12:30-2:00 Luncheon
2:30-4:45 Panel in honor of Ken Sokoloff
- "Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism: A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse," Stephen Haber and Victor Menaldo (Stanford)
- "Do Innovative Regions Inevitably Decline? Lessons from Cleveland's Experience in the 1920s," Naomi R. Lamoreaux (UCLA), Margaret Levenstein (Michigan), and Kenneth L. Sokoloff
- "Inequality and Taxing and Spending Patterns of State and Local Governments," Eric Zolt (UCLA)
4:45-5:00 Open discussion to plan next meeting
Hotel shuttle reserved to leave Anderson at 5 pm
Hotel shuttle reserved to leave hotel at 6 pm for restaurant
6:00 Dinner
Divino
11714 Barrington Ct.
Brentwood, CA 90049
Tel: (310) 472-0886
Hotel shuttle reserved to pick up at restaurant at 8
Support for this meeting has been generously provided by UCLA's Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Center for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES), International Institute, Department of Economics, and Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE).
For logistical support, contact Erica Mito (erica.mito@anderson.ucla.edu) or Matt Spence.