Speakers for the November 11 conference:
Political Economy and Social Policy of Western Europe
Tito Boeri
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Tito Boeri is currently Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, where he teaches courses on labour economics and is director of the Degree in International Economics and Management (DIEM). He is the author of 7 books in English, most recently European Women at Work (Oxford, 2004). He is Director of the Fondazione Debenedetti, operating in the field of labour market and social policy research in Europe and a founding member of the website www.lavoce.info to inform economic policy in Italy and Europe. He is a research fellow at CEPR and the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School. tito.boeri@uni-bocconi.it |
| Patrick Minford |
Patrick Minford holds a Chair in Economics at Cardiff Business School. He has long argued that unemployment is the result of distortions to the price system and cannot be painlessly cured by monetary expansions. For several years he was a member of Her Majesty’s Treasury Panel of Independent Economic Forecasters (popularly knows as the “wise men”), and he served six years on the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. He was awarded a Commander of the British Empire in 1996 for services to economics. His latest book, Should Britain Leave the EU? An Economic Analysis of a Troubled Relationship (Edward Elgar, 2005), shows him to be a reasoned, but unrelenting, euroskeptic. minfordp@cardiff.ac.uk |
| Neil Gilbert |
Neil Gilbert is Professor at the Center for Comparative Family Welfare and Poverty Research at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2002). His research interests include: design and evaluation of social service delivery systems; theoretical framework for social policy analysis; evaluative research; the welfare state; administration and organizational theory; family policy and child abuse prevention; comparative social welfare. ngilbert@berkeley.edu |
| Janet Gornick | Janet Gornick is Associate Professor of Political Science at Baruch College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.On September 1, 2004, she became associate director of the Luxembourg Income Study, an international research institute. Gornick’s research focuses on social welfare policy. Most of her work is comparative—across countries and across the 50 U.S. states—and concerns the effects of family policies on child and family outcomes. She is the co-author of Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment, published in 2003 by the Russell Sage Foundation. Families That Work is a comparative study of family leave policy, the regulation of working time, and publicly funded childcare in 12 industrialized countries. Janet_Gornick@baruch.cuny.edu |