Impacts économiques de l’élection présidentielle américaine : entre nationalisme, populisme et mondialisation 2.0
Economic impacts of the presidential election : nationalism, populism and globalization 2.0
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Les participants prendront la parole sur les impacts des résultats de l’élection présidentielle américaine, notamment en ce qui concerne les politiques économiques, le commerce international, les relations économiques internationales et la gouvernance/régulation de la mondialisation.
Participants : James Galbraith (UT Austin), Sandra Polaski (BU), Guy-Philippe Wells (CEIM) et Michèle Rioux (CEIM)
- Biographies
Sandra Polaski
Non-Resident Senior Research Scholar
M.A., Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
M.A., University of Wisconsin
Sandra Polaski is a senior research scholar of the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center. Ms. Polaski is an expert on trade, labor and social policy issues at national and global levels. She was the Deputy Director-General for Policy of the International Labour Organization (ILO) from 2012-2016 and served as ILO Sherpa to the G20. Earlier she was the U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Labor in charge of the International Labor Affairs Bureau and before that she directed the Trade, Equity and Development Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
James K. Galbraith
James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and a professorship in government at The University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Galbraith was executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress in the early 1980s. He chaired the board of Economists for Peace and Security (1996–2016) and directs the University of Texas Inequality Project. He is a managing editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.
From 1993 to 1997, he served as chief technical adviser to China’s State Planning Commission for macroeconomic reform, and in 2016 he advised the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). In 2014 he was co-winner, with Angus Deaton, of the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economics. He holds honorary degrees from the Université Pierre Mendes-France in Grenoble and from the Plekhanov University of Economics in Moscow.
Dr. Galbraith’s books include Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice : The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (2016) ; Inequality : What Everyone Needs to Know (2016) ; The End of Normal : The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth (2014) ;
