[Mitworld] Martin Feldstein and Simon Johnson on the Economy, Zhou Wenzhong on China-U.S. Relations

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 31 |  March 25, 2009

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Challenges to the Global Economy
February 11, 2009

If economic analyses earned ratings like movies, this event would receive an X for extremely disturbing. 
Two of the field’s most prominent voices spare any sugar coating in their unsettling accounts of the world’s 
unfolding economic crisis.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/650

Speakers:
Martin Feldstein
George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Simon Johnson PhD '98
Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management


Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"Banking is bad in the U.S. because of politics. ... We know what should be done, we can afford it, but we can’t make it happen."
-Simon Johnson

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China's Development and China-U.S. Relations
February 10, 2009

MIT President Susan Hockfield hails a new era of collaboration between the Institute and China, and Zhou Wenzhong, Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China, discusses the larger relationship between his country and the U.S., particularly in light of the economic crisis enveloping the world.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/651

Speaker:
Zhou Wenzhong
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United States


Event Host:
Global MIT

"China is ready to work with the new U.S. administration and American friends from all walks of life to build a better future, on the basis of achievements in the past three decades. Together we will keep bilateral relations on track, strengthen dialogue, enhance mutual trust, expand cooperation and respect and accommodate each other’s core interests."
-Zhou Wenzhong

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In The Pipeline:

An Evening with Video Artist Bill Viola

Presented By:
The Council for the Arts at MIT
Eugene McDermott Award

Speaker:
Bill Viola


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