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WASHINGTON - September 24 -
See the full schedule and register NOW at: www.timeday.org/economyconference
WHEN: October 5-7, 2007
WHERE: Washington DC Convention Center (part of the annual Green Festival)
COST: $35 (entire conference if you register before Sept. 15th!!!) or $50 (entire conference, no advance registration or $25 (per day). Conference fee includes free admission to Green Festival. Register NOW to assure a space at the conference!
What’s the economy for, anyway? Is it just about having the biggest GDP or the highest Dow Jones Average? Or is it about providing for a healthy, happy, fair and sustainable society?
If you think quality of life matters, and wonder how the United States compares to other countries when it comes to providing for its people, then the WHAT’S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? Conference is for you! Dozens of prominent experts and activists will offers parts of the answer to the big question and offer out-of-the-box ideas about what we can do to make our economy serve us instead of vice-versa. Three tracks include QUALITY OF LIFE, SOCIAL JUSTICE and SUSTAINABILITY.
Nearly 100 confirmed prominent speakers, including:
Jerome Ringo, President of the Apollo Alliance
Nancy Folbre, feminist economist, author of The Invisible Heart
Tim Kasser, psychologist, author of The High Price of Materialism
Gar Alperovitz, author of America After Capitalism
Vicki Robin, author of Your Money or Your Life
Riane Eisler, author of The Real Wealth of Nations, The Chalice and the Blade
Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, Born to Buy
Dean Baker, author of The United States Since 1980
Eric Liu, former presidential speechwriter and domestic adviser for Bill Clinton
Hunter Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism
John de Graaf, Take Back Your Time
Ann Crittenden, author of The Price of Motherhood
Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women
John Stauber, author of Trust Us, We’re Experts, Weapons of Mass Deception
Jared Bernstein, director of The Economic Policy Institute
Michael Petit, former Maine Commissioner of Human Services
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, co-author of The Motherhood Manifesto
Celinda Lake, Democratic pollster, author of What Women Really Want
Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet, Hope’s Edge
Bill Spriggs, Chairman, Economics Department, Howard University
Michael Dorsey, professor of environmental science at Dartmouth
Karen Nussbaum, AFL-CIO, former director, Women’s Bureau, US Dept. of Labor
Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy, The End of Nature
Peter Barnes, co-founder of Working Assets and author of Capitalism 3.0
Karen Kornbluh, Policy Director for Senator Obama
James Lardner, editor of Inequality Matters
Miles Rapoport, director, DEMOS
Jim Rubens, former Republican State Senator, New Hampshire
David Moberg, Senior Editor, In These Times
Julie Nelson, author Economics for Humans
The conference offers 25 individual speeches and nearly 30 workshops. To see the complete agenda, go to:
http://www.timeday.org/economyconference/agenda.asp
Workshops will include in-depth analysis of current problems, comparisons to the economic performance of other industrial countries, and concrete policy solutions for a happier, healthier, most just and sustainable United States. Conference organizers hope that this conference will mark the beginning of a new national campaign to put the question, “What’s the economy for, anyway?” on the agenda of the 2008 election campaigns and beyond.
Whether you consider yourself an environmentalist, an advocate of social justice, family-friendly policies or universal health care, a union organizer or enlightened business leader, a practitioner of simple living, a student of economics, psychology or politics, a journalist or a wonk, a Democrat, moderate Republican or Green, this conference is for you.
The “What’s the Economy for, Anyway?” project is a program of the Forum on Social Wealth. Financial support for the project comes from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
The conference is self-supporting and made possible by a generous donation of space from the Green Festival.
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