Check out our "News and Events" page for information on two exciting new initiatives from the Political Economy Project: Our faculty co-teaching grants for "Exploring Disagreements in the Classroom," and our student grants for "Exploring Disagreements in Independent Research."
Susannah Heschel (Religion and Jewish Studies), "Teaching the Middle East," originally scheduled for Wednesday May 8 at 4:30 pm, Rocky 1, has been postponed until further notice.
POSTPONED: Ezzedine Fishere, Thoughts on Israel/Palestine
The talk by Ezzedine Fishere (Middle Eastern Studies), "Thoughts on Palestine/Israel," originally scheduled for wednesday May 15 at 4:30 in Rocky 1, has been postponed until further notice.
CANCELLED: Ishac Diwan, The Modernization of Saudi Arabia Today
The talk by Ishac Diwan on "The Modernization of Saudi Arabia Today," originally scheduled for Friday May 10 at 4 pm, has been cancelled.
Once one of the richest countries in the world, Argentina long ago fell into a cycle of recurring debt crises, devaluations, and defaults. Despite its erratic politics, the corporatist system that Juan Domingo Peron set up some 80 years ago on the model of Mussolini’s Italy has been a constant in the country’s political economy. How has that system worked? How should we understand the rise of the new president Javier Milei? Will the current crisis finally put an end to Argentina’s corporatist republic? Ian Vasquez will try to make sense of Argentina’s current moment and of the country’s path from prosperity to poverty.
A term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Vasquez is coauthor of the Human Freedom Index, editor of Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism, and coeditor of Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF and the Developing World. He has testified numerous times in the U.S. Congress on economic development issues.