Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance; MacArthur Research Networks, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Meeting Agenda

October 30-November 1, 1998
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts


 

Friday, Oct. 30

MIT Faculty Club, Dining Room West

10-11:45 Peyton Young: "Conventional Contracts"

12-2:00 Luncheon meeting for all (members and non-members) with Joseph Stiglitz of The World Bank

Dining Room West

2 - 3:45 Josh Epstein, Robert Axtell and Peyton Young: "The Emergence of Economic Classes in an Agent-based Bargaining Model"

3:45-4:15 Coffee break

4:15 - 6:00 Karla Hoff: "Homesteading"

 

Saturday, Oct. 31

MIT Faculty Club, Dining Room West

9-10:45 Elinor Ostrom: "The Contested Role of Heterogeneity"

10:45-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-1:00 Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee: "Decentralization and the Delivery of Public Services"

1:00-3:00 Non-members' lunch break
Members-only meeting in Dining Room #3

3:00-4:45 Daron Acemoglu: "Good Jobs vs Bad Jobs: Theory and Some Evidence"

7:30 p.m. Dinner (Speaker: Theda Skocpol on "Sustainable Social Policy")

Olives Restaurant at 10 City Square in Charlestown

Sunday, Nov. 16

MIT Sloan Building #E51, Room 385

9-10:45 Sam Bowles: "Egalitarianism and the Evolution of Group-Beneficial Norms"

10:45-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-1:00 Matthew Rabin: "A Review Article on Social Preferences"


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