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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities\, By Alain Bertaud
DESCRIPTION:Overview:\nJoin us on Tuesday\, December 10 at 5:30pm for the launch of Alain Bertaud’s new book from MIT Press\, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. In it\, Bertaud argues that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure. Drawing on five decades of urban planning experience in forty cities around the world\, Bertaud links cities’ productivity to the size of their labor markets; argues that the design of infrastructure and markets can complement each other; examines the spatial distribution of land prices and densities; stresses the importance of mobility and affordability; and critiques the land use regulations in a number of cities that aim at redesigning existing cities instead of just trying to alleviate clear negative externalities. Bertaud concludes by describing the new role that joint teams of urban planners and economists could play to improve the way cities are managed. \nEvent Program:\nProfessor William Easterly\, Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute\, will provide an opening commentary on the book. Bertaud will then sit down for a discussion of the book with Weiping Wu\, Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the M.S. in Urban Planning program at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning\, and Preservation\, before fielding questions from the audience. Books will be available for sale and signature. \n\nAlain Bertaud is Senior Research Scholar at New York University’s Marron Institute of Urban Management. He has worked as Principal Urban Planner for the World Bank and as an independent consultant and resident urban planner in cities ranging from Bangkok to New York. \nWilliam Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute. His most recent book is entitled The Tyranny of Experts: Economists\, Dictators\, and the\nForgotten Rights of the Poor. He is a Research Associate of NBER and has served as Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Economics. \n \nWeiping Wu is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia GSAPP and Director of the M.S. Urban Planning program. Trained in architecture and urban planning\, Prof. Wu has focused her research and teaching on understanding urban dynamics in developing countries in general and China in particular. \n  \nThis event is co-hosted by NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Management\, NYU’s Development Research Institute\, and NYU’s Urban Planning Student Association.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/book-launch-order-without-design-how-markets-shape-cities-by-alain-bertaud/
LOCATION:Location: New York University 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003\, 14A Washington Mews\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Angus Deaton in Conversation with Amartya Sen\, “Economics with a Moral Compass? Welfare Economics: Past\, Present and Future”
DESCRIPTION:Event Program: \n1:30pm – 2:00pm  Doors Open\, Guest Arrival \n2:00pm – 2:05pm  Welcome Remarks on Behalf of New York University\n                                             By: Katherine E. Fleming\, NYU Provost \n2:05pm – 4:00pm  Angus Deaton in Conversation with Amartya Sen \n4:00pm – 5:00pm  Networking Reception \nSpeakers: \n \n Sir Angus Deaton is Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School where he taught for thirty years. He is also Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. He is the author of five books including\, most recently\, The Great Escape: health\, wealth\, and the origins of inequality. His interests include health\, development\, poverty\, inequality\, and wellbeing. He has written extensively on happiness\, on foreign aid\, and on how we should collect evidence for good policy. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society\, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was President of the American Economic Association in 2009\, and in 2015 he received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for his analysis of consumption\, poverty\, and welfare.” He was born in Edinburgh in Scotland and is a British and an American citizen; his BA\, MA\, and PhD are from Cambridge University. He was made a Knight Bachelor for his services to economics and international affairs in the Queen’s Birthday Honors List in 2016. \n \nAmartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor\, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy\, at Harvard University and was until 2004 the Master of Trinity College\, Cambridge. He is also Senior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Earlier on he was Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University Calcutta\, the Delhi School of Economics\, and the London School of Economics\, and Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University. \nAmartya Sen has served as President of the Econometric Society\, the American Economic Association\, the Indian Economic Association\, and the International Economic Association. His research has ranged over social choice theory\, economic theory\, ethics and political philosophy\, welfare economics\, theory of measurement\, decision theory\, development economics\, public health\, and gender studies. Amartya Sen’s books have been translated into more than thirty languages\, and include Choice of Techniques (1960)\, Growth Economics (1970)\, Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970)\, Choice\, Welfare and Measurement (1982)\, Commodities and Capabilities (1987)\, The Standard of Living (1987)\, Development as Freedom (1999)\, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2006)\, The Idea of Justice (2009)\, and (jointly with Jean Dreze) An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (2013)\, and The Country of First Boys (2015). \nAmartya Sen’s awards include Bharat Ratna (India); Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur (France); the National Humanities Medal (USA); Ordem do Merito Cientifico (Brazil); Honorary Companion of Honour (UK); Aztec Eagle (Mexico); Edinburgh Medal (UK); the George Marshall Award (USA); the Eisenhower Medal (USA); and the Nobel Prize in Economics. \nEvent Co-Hosts: \nThe Annual Review of Economics covers significant developments in the field of economics\, including macroeconomics and money; microeconomics\, including economic psychology; international economics; public finance; health economics; education; economic growth and technological change; economic development; social economics\, including culture\, institutions\, social interaction\, and networks; game theory\, political economy\, and social choice; and more. \nwww.annualreviews.org/journal/economics \nFounded in 2006\, the NYU Development Research Institute (DRI) is home to a growing team of researchers and students. Through our work\, we seek to expand the number and diversity of serious commentators on the state of foreign aid and development. Our ultimate goal is to have a positive impact on the lives of the poor\, who deserve the benefit of high-quality\, clear-eyed\, hard-headed economic research applied to the problems of world poverty. \nwww.nyudri.org \nThe C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics has as its major objective the fostering and development of rigorous applied work in the economic sciences\, accomplished through a commitment to providing research support and creating forums for intellectual exchange. The C.V. Starr Center\, housed within the Department of Economics at New York University\, provides direct financial support for research faculty as well as for doctoral students involved in applied research activities. The Center regularly sponsors academic conferences\, hosts renowned visiting scholars\, and schedules plenary lectures given to a broad academic audience on topics of special significance to contemporary economic policy and application.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/angus-deaton-in-conversation-with-amartya-sen-economics-with-a-moral-compass-welfare-economics-past-present-and-future/
LOCATION:Location: New York University Kimmel Center for University Life\, 60 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:ALUFA RUFINO\, A MAN OF FAITH AND SORCERY ON THE PERIPHERY OF ISLAM
DESCRIPTION:CLACS and the History Department at NYU will be hosting a presentation by Brazilian historian João José Reis titled “Alufa Rufino\, A Man of Faith and Sorcery on the Periphery of Islam.” \nBrazil\, and particularly Bahia\, was arguably the destination of most African Muslims deported from West Africa to the Americas on board slave ships during the first half of the nineteenth century. They were mainly Hausas\, Nupes\, and Yorubas who\, once in Brazil\, were involved in several slave revolts. This is a well-known story. What is less well-known is that parallel to this militant Islam\, there were other\, more accommodationist forms of Islam that also flourished among African slaves and freed people in Brazil. This lecture is about a man who represented  this form of Islam. A devout Muslim\, Abuncare (a.k.a\, Rufino José Maria) nonetheless dedicated himself to divination and other unorthodox practices that he learned in Africa and either reproduced in Brazil or adapted to Brazilian belief systems. \n  \nAbout the speaker: \n  \nJoão José Reis received his PhD in History from the University of Minnesota and is currently a Professor of History at the Universidade Federal de Bahia (UFBA) in Brazil. He is the author of Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia and Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Popular Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil\, which earned the 1996 Clarence H. Haring Prize from the American Historical Association and the 1992 Jabuti Prize for nonfiction from the Brazilian Book Council. From 1996 to 2004\, he served as editor for the Afro-Ásia journal published by UFBA’s Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of London and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University\, as well as a Visiting Professor at the University of London\, Princeton University\, University of Michigan and Brandeis University. In 2004\, he was awarded the Comenda da Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico by the Brazilian Government. While at Harvard during the spring semester\, he taught in the Department of History and presented several public lectures including Divining Slavery and Other Diseases: An African Priest in Nineteenth Century Brazil and Social Mobility among Slaves in Bahia\, Brazil: The Case of Manoel Ricardo. \n 
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/alufa-rufino-a-man-of-faith-and-sorcery-on-the-periphery-of-islam-2/
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SUMMARY:A CONVERSATION WITH AFRO COLOMBIAN ACTIVIST MIYELA RIASCOS
DESCRIPTION:CLACS is proud to present a conversation with Miyela Riascos moderated by Roosbelinda Cardenas\, CLACS Visiting Scholar 2018-19. This event is hosted in collaboration with Witness for Peace. \nAbout Miyela Riascos:\nThis amazing woman is a Colombian ethno-educator and anthropologist who works with various social organizations and victims’ groups in the area of territorial and human rights\, peace and environmental education\, and community organizing. She had to flee her territory 17 years ago due to the threat of armed paramilitary groups in the rural areas near Buenaventura (Anchicayá River) and knows the situation of internally displaced persons in Buenaventura from personal experience. \nMiyela is an organizer of the Buenaventura Committee for the Civil Strike to Live in Peace and Dignity. She is also a spokeswoman representative in the negotiations that were achieved with the Colombian government regarding equitable distribution of the state’s health care resources. \nMiyela is also the co-founder of the ARIBI Socio-Environmental Foundation which supports the organizing processes of local Afro-Colombian communities dedicated to the implementation of sustainable development. \n  \nAbout Roosbelinda Cardenas: \nRoosbelinda Cárdenas is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. Her current book project looks at Black political mobilization following the institutionalization of multicultural reforms in Colombia and the onset of armed violence on the Pacific region. More broadly\, she interested in identity and rights for Afro-descendants in Latin America and social theories of race and racism\, social movements\, place and displacement\, and human rights. \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public\, seating is limited. ID is required to access the building.
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/a-conversation-with-afro-colombian-activist-miyela-riascos/
LOCATION:Location: King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Room 342E\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:Economics and Culture  2018 Annual Conference by NYU Development Research Institute\, NYU Africa House\, and the C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics at NYU
DESCRIPTION:  \nNew York University\nKimmel Center\, Rosenthal Pavilion (10th Floor)\n60 Washington Square South\nNew York\, NY 10012 \nOverview:\nThere has been increasing interest over the last decade in understanding the role of culture in shaping development outcomes. The push has come from many directions: from studying economic history\, from the institutions and growth literature\, from political economy\, and more recently from a literature that has explicitly tried to measure dimensions of culture and their evolution and their impact on economic interactions and on the process of development. Culture\, defined loosely as shared ideas\, customs\, and social behavior\, is from the perspective of economics a deeply endogenous variable\, in other words\, something that is determined through a history of economic\, social\, and political interaction. At the same time\, once a culture forms\, it acquires its own valence\, shaping the way individuals interact\, transact\, and aggregate into a process of growth. \nConference Program: \nMCs: Rajeev Dehejia\, (New York University)\, and Yaw Nyarko\, (New York University) \n8:00am–9:00am Registration\, coffee\, and pastries \n9:00am–9:05am DRI welcome remarks by Rajeev Dehejia\, (New York University) \n9:05am-9:10am Introductory remarks by Yanoula Athanassakis\, Associate Vice Provost\, Academic Affairs and Special Projects; Director\, Environmental Humanities Initiative\, (New York University) \n9:10am–9:50am Nathan Nunn\, (Harvard University). “The Importance of Culture and Context for Development Policy“ \n9:50am–10:30am Enrico Spolaore\, (Tufts University). “Modern Fertility” \n10:30am–10:45am Break with coffee and pastries \n10:45am–11:25am William Easterly\, (New York University). “Does Ethnicity Predict Culture?“ \n11:25am–12:05pm Raquel Fernandez\, (New York University). “Cultural Change” \n12:05pm–12:45pm Alberto Bisin\, (New York University). “The Joint Dynamics of Culture and Institutions“ \n12:45pm–1:45pm Lunch for audience and speakers \n1:45pm–2:25pm Gerard Roland\, (University of California\, Berkeley). “The Deep Historical Roots of Modern Culture”
URL:https://csaad.nyu.edu/event/economics-and-culture-2018-annual-conference-by-nyu-development-research-institute-nyu-africa-house-and-the-c-v-starr-center-for-applied-economics-at-nyu/
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