Bolivarian Circle of Boston
is pleased to invite you to
a panel discussion at
Encuentro5, 33 Harrison Ave.
Chinatown, Boston
The Global Economic Crisis: from North to South
Venezuelan scholar-diplomat Escalona discusses crisis w/ a stellar panel of economists
Friday, June 12, 2009, 7:00 p.m. Venezuela's Adjunct Ambassador to the United Nations and economist Julio Escalona returns to e5 to address the global economic crisis and preview the upcoming UN Assembly's Special Session on the crisis. Joining the conversation are Richard Freeman (Harvard's National Bureau of Economic Research), Julie Matthaei (Wellesley College) and Arthur MacEwan (UMass Boston). Details, biographies & flyer to follow.
Richard Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He is also director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
Julie Matthaei has been active in anti-war, feminist, ecology, lesbian/gay, and anti-racist movement in the U.S. since she went to college at Stanford in 1969, and is a big fan of (and participant in) the Social Forum movement. She has been teaching economics – including Feminist Economics – at Wellesley College for 30 years. Julie has written two books on gender in U.S. economic history, An Economic History of Women in America (1982) and, with Teresa Amott, Race, Gender and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the U.S. (1996), and has been researching and writing about feminist economic transformation with Barbara Brandt for the past seven years.
Jorge Marin CB-Martin Luther King, Jr. Boston, MA The Bolivarian Circles in the USA seek to inform the american public of what is really going on in Venezuela. We respect the laws of the US and we aim to improve the relations between our two countries.
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