Re: Talk at SUNY Albany (fwd)

his name is Streeten
gunderOn Fri, 31 Mar 2000 md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu wrote:

> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:34:48 -0500 (EST)
> From: md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu
> To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
> Cc: md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu
> Subject: Talk at SUNY Albany  (fwd)
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> I think that the folks will be interested in this. State University of New
> York at Albany, Nelson A. Rockeffeller College, Graduate School of Public
> Affairs, The Department of Public Administration and Policy presents Paul
> Streen, founder of the influential journal World Development who will
> speak on "What is Wrong with Comtemporary Economics?", Milne 200,
> Rockefeller College, Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 4 p.m. Paul Streen is a
> leading thinker on international development who has written on diverse
> subjects ranging from the history of economic thought to international
> trade to the measurement of social progress. As a reviwer of one of his
> more recent works, Thinking about Development (1995) noted, Dr. Streen's
> great legacy is: "his dedication to the proposition that behind
> economists' stacks of equations and piles of tables are people
> too many of whom lack opportunities to earn decent incomes, to secure
> basic health and education, and to enjoy personal freedoms". Dr.Streen is
> Professor of Emeritus of Economics at Boston University. He is a fellow of
> Balliol College at Oxford University, and served as a visiting professor
> at many universities throughout Europe. His many books include, What Price
> Food? Beyond Adjustment, Strategies for Human Development and The United
> National and the Brettton Woods Institutions. Asked where he called home,
> the awowed "heterodox economist" said, "Having moved from Austria to
> England, Scotland and America, my roots are not in the soil but
> are aerial, across national boundries". Dr. Streen's cosmopolitan
> background offers an unique vantage point to analyze the evolution of
> thought and strategies on international development and its present scope.
> 
> A reception will follow the talk. For more information please call Dori
> Brown (518) 442-5258 or Prof. Holy Sims (518) 442-5268. 
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> You can also e-mail me (Mine) at md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu
> 
> To obtain Enrollment Information Call, (518)-442-5244. Visit our web site
> at www.albany.edu/gspa
> 
> 
> --
> Mine Aysen Doyran
> Phd Student
> Department of Political Science
> SUNY at Albany
> Nelson A. Rockefeller College
> Western Avenue 135,
> Milne 102, Albany/NY, 12222
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