The New Deal has become a leading symbol of our age. But what will it take to bring about the next New Deal?
Experts on economics, climate change, politics and social policy, political leaders and activists will explore the elements of a “Green New Deal” in Europe and America and the “European New Deal” project of the Democracy in Europe Movement during the New Deals in Europe and America conference. The conference, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Monday, November 11, and Tuesday, November 12, at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.
REGISTER FOR NEW DEALS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA
Experts will discuss the energy transformation necessary to meet the climate crisis and the associated social, labor, financial and economic policies. Peter Bofinger, a German economist and former member of the German Council of Economic Experts, and Kathryn Flynn, executive director of the National New Deal Preservation Association, will deliver keynote remarks. Katrin Jakobsdottir, Prime Minister of Iceland, and Yanis Varoufakis, Member of Parliament and leader of the Democracy in Europe Movement in Greece, will deliver opening remarks via video.
Sessions will cover macro and monetary economics, labor, social movements and politics, the role and control of finance, and steps towards the next New Deal.
This conference is the fifth in a biennial series of Texas conferences on European issues, which have in past years explored the crisis of the Eurozone, the Greek crisis and the relationship of the South American Summer to European problems.
Sponsors include the LBJ School, Center for European Studies, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Hans Boeckler Stiftung and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.
LBJ School participants include–
In order of appearance
- James Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations
- Will Inboden, Director of Clements Center
- Michael Lind, Visiting Professor
- Raj Patel, Research Professor
- Peniel Joseph, Director of Center for the Study of Race and Democracy
Conference Program
MONDAY, November 11, 2019
8:00 – 8:30 AM - CHECK-IN and CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:30 – 9:00 AM - INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME
James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations, LBJ School of Public
Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Douglas Biow, Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Director of the Center for European Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Video Greeting: Yanis Varoufakis, Member of Parliament and leader of the Democracy in Europe Movement, Greece
9:00 – 10:30 AM - SESSION 1: The New Deal in the United States
Chair: Will Inboden, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Ferguson, Director of Research, Institute for New Economic Thinking
Marshall Auerback, Research Director, RIWI
Maria Paola Del Rossi, University of Teramo, Italy
Michael Lind, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Grzegorz Kolodko, Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM - SESSION 2: Macro and Monetary Economics of a New Deal
Chair: Raj Patel, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Stephen Cohen, University of California at Berkeley (emeritus)
Yeva Nersisyan, Franklin and Marshall College
Rui Tavares, Founder of Livre, former head of the Ulysses Project, Portugal
David Adler, DieM25 and School of Transnational Governance, Florence, Italy
Robert Pollin, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst
12:15 – 1:45 PM - LUNCH in LBJ School Lobby
Luncheon Keynote: What are the Constraints for a Green New Deal?
Peter Bofinger, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
2:00 – 3:30 PM - SESSION 3: Climate and Energy
Chair: Michael Marder, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Fricke, New Paradigm Initiative
Sandra Benčić, Coordinator, "Možemo!" (Green-left party), Croatia
Amanda Masino, Department of Biology, Huston-Tillotson University
Jing Chen, University of Northern British Columbia
June Sekera, Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, New School for Social Research
3:30 – 5:00 PM - SESSION 4: Labor, Social Movements and the Politics of a New Deal
Chair: Peniel Joseph, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Damon A. Silvers, Policy Director and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO
Harold Meyerson, Editor at Large, The American Prospect
Sebastian Dullien, Hans-Boeckler Stiftung, Germany
Chien-Yi Lu, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei
John Judis, author, “The Nationalist Revival” and Editor-at-Large, Talking Points Memo.
TUESDAY, November 12, 2019
8:00 - 8:50 AM - CHECK-IN and CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:50 - 9:00 AM - Remarks from Hon. Katrin Jakobsdottir, Prime Minister of Iceland (video introduced by Halla Gunnarsdottir, special representative of the PM)
9:00 – 10:30 AM - SESSION 5: The Role and Control of Finance
Chair: Rebecca McInroy, KUT Austin
Ken-Hou Lin, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Jerome Roos, London School of Economics
Nicholas Shaxson, Author and Journalist, United Kingdom
Mikhaël Ayache, Economic Counselor, New York office of the Tresor, France
Valur Ingimundarson, University of Iceland
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM - SESSION 6: Wrap up and Steps Towards the Next New Deal
Chair: James K. Galbraith, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Peter Bofinger, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Grzegorz Kolodko, Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland
Damon A. Silvers, Policy Director and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO
Sandra Benčić, Coordinator, "Možemo!" (Green-left party), Croatia
Rui Tavares, Founder of Livre, former head of the Ulysses Project, Portugal
12:15 - 1:45 PM - LUNCH in LBJ School Lobby
Luncheon Keynote: Women and the Spirit of the New Deal
Kathryn Flynn, National New Deal Preservation Association
1:45 - 2:00 PM - CLOSING REMARKS
2:00 PM - ADJOURN