From mit.world at mit.edu Wed Apr 7 11:23:52 2010 From: mit.world at mit.edu (MIT World) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:23:52 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] Simon Johnson on 13 Bankers, Panel on Rebuilding Haiti Message-ID: <201004071523.o37FNqLJ032131@mrkrabs.mit.edu> MIT World Newsletter Volume 9, Number 32 | April 7, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown April 2, 2010 Simon Johnson warns in a new book that a ?new financial oligarchy? threatens not only the nation?s economy, but its political core. In 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, Johnson, says the book provides ?the back story? for the 2008 financial crisis ?and for all the issues being raised now around financial reform. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/760 Speaker: Simon Johnson PhD '89 Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management Event Host: MIT Sloan School of Management "It's about power of private interests verses democracy. Democracy is messy, democracy is crazy, democracy is all of us." -Simon Johnson -------------------------------------------------------------- Rebuilding Haiti February 23, 2010 In the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake, four panelists with strong personal and professional ties to Haiti share their insights about the different paths to rebuilding and reconstructing the country. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/758 Speakers: Erica James Associate Professor of Anthropology Cherie Miot Abbanat Lecturer in Communications Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Department of Architecture Dale Joachim Visiting Scientist, MIT Media Lab Michel DeGraff Associate Professor of Linguistics Event Host: Center for International Studies "Establishing and maintaining security is of paramount urgency as is sustained effort to bolster Haitian institutions. However, such processes cannot be founded upon practices that depict Haiti and its citizens solely through a lens of victimization, failure, or vulnerability." -Erica James -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Race from France to France, Leave Antarctica to Starboard Presented By: MIT Museum Speaker: Rich Wilson Extreme Ocean Racer The Great American III -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT Center for Real Estate Professional Development Institute http://mit.edu/cre/education/profed/courses/10_campus-courses.html

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