[Mitworld] Seven MIT Economists on Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy, Chomsky and Murray on Gaza

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 31 |  March 1, 2011

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Economic Policy Challenges: Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy
January 27, 2011

These economists, MIT PhDs all, ponder what remains in the macroeconomist’s toolkit to pull the U.S., 
and much of the developed world, out of recession. They discuss aspects of fiscal and monetary 
policy that may prove useful in spurring recovery, as well as the complicating matter of politics.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/875

Moderator:
Ricardo Caballero PhD '88
Ford International Professor of Economics and Department Head, MIT

Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"If you’d asked me five years ago what would happen if the U.S. had unemployment in excess of 9% and 
every prospect of unemployment at incredibly high levels for some years to come, I’d have said 
there’d be overwhelming political demand for government to do something. In fact there isn’t. What’s 
happened is we’ve had a near collapse of the idea that government can do anything about this."
-Paul Krugman

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Gaza in Crisis
January 21, 2011

Noam Chomsky and Nancy Murray, both steeped in the ongoing crisis of the Middle East describe 
abominable conditions for Palestinians living inside Gaza, which has been blockaded by Israel since 
2007. They demand urgent action for civilian victims, and condemn both the Israeli and U.S. 
governments for pursuing policies of “genocide.”

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/876

Speakers:
Nancy Murray
President, Gaza Mental Health Foundation

Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor; Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, MIT


Event Host:
Center for International Studies

"Imagine ... a territory which over the past four years served as kind of a laboratory to find the 
breaking point of human beings. I mean that literally."
-Nancy Murray

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In The Pipeline:

Diversity on the World Stage

Presented By:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom
Human Diversity and Social Order

Moderator:
Bishwapriya Sanyal
Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning
Director of the Program for Urban and Regional Studies, MIT

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