Friday, October 8

MIT Sloan Building E51-095

8:15 - 9:00

continental breakfast

9:00 - 10:45

Erik Wright
"Patterns of Job Expansion in Developed Capitalist Economies: Some Preliminary Descriptive Results;" and
"The Patterns of Job Expansions in the U.S.A.: A Comparison of the 1960s and 1990s"

10:45 - 11:15

coffee break

11:15 - 1:00

Thomas Piketty
"Should We Reduce Class Size or School Segregation? Theory and Evidence from France"

1:00 - 2:30

lunch

2:30 - 5:30

special session on 'Globalization and Sweatshops'

2:30 - 4:00

Brief presentations by:

Renana Jhabvala, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

Mark Levinson, Chief Economist and Director of Policy, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE)

James Heintz, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), UMASS Amherst

4:00 - 4:15

coffee break

4:15 - 5:30

6:15 pm

discussion introduced by brief comments and reactions from
Abhijit Banerjee and Philippe Aghion

social dinner
The Elephant Walk Restaurant
2067 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge; 617-492-6900

Saturday, October 9

MIT Sloan Building E51-095

8:15 - 9:00

continental breakfast

9:00 - 10:45

Sam Bowles and Suresh Naidu (Economics, University of California, Berkeley)
"The Evolutionary Dynamics of Unequal Division;" and
"Institutional Equilibrium Selection by Intentional Idiosyncratic Play"

10:45 - 11:15

coffee break

11:15 - 1:00

Dilip Mookherjee
"Occupational Diversity and Endogenous Inequality"

1:00 - 2:30

lunch

2:30 - 4:15

Robert Townsend
"Growth and Inequality: Model Evaluation Based on an Estimation-Calibration Strategy"

4:15 - 4:30

coffee break

4:30 - 5:30

(Network Members Only) Meeting

Sunday, October 10

MIT Sloan Building E51-095

8:00 - 8:30

continental breakfast

8:30 - 10:15

Michael Kremer
"The Globalization of Household Production"

10:15 - 10:30

coffee break

10:30 - 12:15

Abhijit Banerjee
"Productivity and the Misallocation of Capital;" and

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
"Growth Theory through the Lens of Development Economics"