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The Welfare State and the Fight against Inequality

On November 8-9th at Columbia University, IPD hosted a one and a half day conference examining the current problems of economic inequality and the role of the welfare state as a solution.
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This conference is IPD’s second major annual conference on the issue of inequality. This conference and research was made possible by the Ford Foundation, Centre for the Study of Equality, Social Organization and Performance (ESOP) at the University of Oslo and the International Labor Organization(ILO). 

Partners

  • Joseph Stiglitz
    Speaker
    President
    Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
  • Karl Ove Moene
    Speaker
    Professor
    Department of Economics
    University of Oslo
  • Sandra Polaski
    Speaker
    Deputy Director-General of Policy
    International Labor Organization
    United Nation
  • Jan Svejnar
    Speaker
    James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy; Director, Center on Global Economic Governance
    School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
  • José Antonio Ocampo
    Speaker
    Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University and former Minister of Finance of Colombia
    Columbia University
  • Natalie Gomez
    Speaker
    Columbia SIPA
  • Peter Lindert
    Speaker
    Distinguished Professor
    Economics
    University of California, Davis
  • Suresh Naidu
    Speaker
    Assistant Professor
    Economics Department
    Columbia University
  • Erzo F.P. Luttmer
    Speaker
    Professor
    Economics
    Darthmouth College
  • Ernst Stetter
    Speaker
    Secretary General
    Foundation for European Progressive Studies
  • Yann Algan
    Speaker
    Dean
    School of Public Affairs
    Sciences Po
  • Jody Heymann
    Speaker
    UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
  • Janet Gornick
    Speaker
    The Graduate Center, City University of New York
  • Ravi Kanbur
    Moderator
    Professor of Economics
    Cornell University
  • Bernt Bratsberg
    Speaker
    Senior Research Fellow
    Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
  • Torben M. Anderson
    Speaker
    Professor
    Economics
    Aarhus University
  • Markus Jantti
    Speaker
    Professor
    Swedish Institute for Social Research
    Stockholm University
  • Gunnar Wetterberg
    Speaker
    Author
  • Santiago Levy
    Speaker
    Vice President
    Sector and Knowledge
  • Nora Lustig
    Speaker
  • Helena Ribe
    Speaker
    Board Member
    Pro-Mujer International
  • Ana Sojo
    Speaker
    Senior Expert
    Economic Commission of Latin America and the Carribean
    United Nations
  • Heather Boushey
    Speaker
    Washington Center for Equitable Growth
  • Ravi Kanbur
    Speaker
    Professor of Economics
    Cornell University
  • Hilary Hoynes
    Speaker
    Professor
    Haas School of Business
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Rick McGahey
    Speaker
    Vice President of Programs
    Institute for New Economic Thinking
    New School for Social Research
  • Akbar Noman
    Moderator
    Senior Policy Fellow
    Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
  • Arjun Jayadev
    Speaker
    Assistant Professor
    University of Massachusetts
  • Isabel Ortiz
    Speaker
    Global Social Justice Program Director
    Initiative for Policy Dialogue
  • Teresa Ghilarducci
    Speaker
    Professor
    New School
  • Stephany Griffith-Jones
    Moderator
    Financial Markets Program Director
    Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
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