Davos 2016: The Politics of Inequality
What is the best path toward inclusive growth? Should there be more emphasis on access to opportunity or redistribution?
Panelists:
Ricardo Hausmann, Growth Lab, CID
Joseph Stiglitz, Colombia University
Richard Samans, WEF
Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Trade, Canada
Ángel Gurría, OECD
Moderator: Minton Beddoes, Economist
The Inclusive Growth Research Agenda
Marcela Escobari, Executive Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University, opens the Symposium on Inclusive Growth and Development.
The Symposium is a collaborative effort involving CID, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Meta-Council on Inclusive Growth and the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth to find sustainable and scalable solutions to foster inclusive growth.
For more information about the symposium and the featured proposals, visits www.growthsymposium.org
Panel: Why are We Here?
Panel: Why are We Here? Innovative Ideas Challenging Views of Development
Yuwa Hedrick-Wong – Chief Economist, MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth
Richard Samans – Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum
Ricardo Hausmann – Director, Center for International Development at Harvard University
Moderator: Henry Curr – US Economics Correspondent, The Economist
For more information about this symposium, visit www.growthsymposium.org.
The Challenge of Inclusion: A Conversation With Lawrence H. Summers
Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor; Weil Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, and President Emeritus at Harvard University, talks with John Authers, Senior Investment Columnist for the Financial Times, for a discussion on inclusion with regards to economic growth.
Talking points ranged from rising income and health inequality in the U.S., to the stagnant investment in infrastructure, to the encouraging improvement in worldwide health over the past several decades.
Michele Coscia: Building Data-Driven Development
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Development at Harvard University
“Many of the fastest growing companies today in the world and definitely the ones that are shaping the progress of humanity are data intensive companies. Here at CID we have a simple task: we just want to add the rest of the world to the party”.
Coscia’s talk focuses on CID’s efforts to participate on data development of economics and growth.
Sendhil Mullainathan: Machine Intelligence and Public Policy
Powered by large amounts of data, algorithms today can do pretty amazing things; from recognizing faces to understanding language. Remarkably, the engine underneath these feats is a statistical one – combining large amounts of data to produce fundamental statistical insights. If viewed from the correct light, could this same engine be used to transform public policy? Could we leverage approaches designed for facial recognition to shape the way we think about the social sciences? How would these algorithms perform in these alternative settings?
Sendhil Mullainathan, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
Photo credits
Frisbee photo: (Rommi Saar) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b…)], via Wikimedia Commons
Motorcross photo: Graeme Main/MOD [OGL (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/do…)], via Wikimedia Commons
Dani Rodrik and Tyler Cowen on Economics Rules
After the financial crisis the credibility of the economics profession took a major hit in the public eye. However, it is worthwhile to ask “what failed?” Is the theoretical underpinning of the profession structurally flawed or have some practitioners simply gone astray from the fundamental principles of economic analysis? Understanding what are the intellectual blind spots of economics and how they should be internalized is a key component of a fundamental shift in thinking that is required in the profession in order to responsibly move forward. The future of economics might be better served by avoiding the question of “which is the right model?” alternatively focusing on identifying “which model is appropriate for the specific task at hand.”
Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School
Moderated by Tyler Cowen, Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and General Director of the Mercatus Center
Ricardo Hausmann, orador de cierre CADE Panamá 2016
Harvard’s Lectures That Last 2016
Ricardo Hausmann shares his thoughts on the importance of diffusion of know-how at the 6th annual Lectures that Last event at Harvard University.