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This important New America conference features some of the nation's foremost economic experts. Video of the complete event is available at right.

Two new papers from our Economic Growth Program are being released as well -- one detailing the larger growth agenda, the other focused on developing America's Heartland. Both documents are now available below.

Agenda

9:45 a.m. -- Registration and Coffee

Master of Ceremonies

• Steven Clemons
  Senior Fellow, New America Foundation

10:00 a.m. -- Welcoming Remarks

• Ted Halstead
  President & CEO, New America Foundation
• Bruce Stokes
  Director, Economic Growth Program, New America Foundation
  Economics Columnist, National Journal

10:15 a.m. -- Scenarios and Concerns: Prospects for the American and Global Economies

• Paul Krugman
  Columnist, The New York Times
  Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University

10:45 a.m. -- America’s Growth Potential: A Discussion

• Michael Mandel
  Chief Economist, BusinessWeek
• Bernard L. Schwartz
  Retired Chairman & CEO, Loral Space & Communications
  President, BLS Investments
• James K. Glassman
  Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
  Editor-in-Chief, The American
• Sherle R. Schwenninger
  Director, Global Middle Class Program, New America Foundation

Provocateur

• Edward Allen
  Correspondent and Former Washington Bureau Chief, Financial Times

11:45 a.m. -- Averting the Next Recession: Putting the Economy on a Sustainable Growth Path

• James K. Galbraith
  Professor, LBJ School of Public Policy, University of Texas/Austin
• Jeff Faux
  President Emeritus, Economic Policy Institute
• Zanny Minton Beddoes
  Washington Economics Editor, The Economist
• The Hon. Robert J. Shapiro
  Director, Globalization Initiative, NDN
  Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs

Provocateur

• Martin Walker
  Editor Emeritus, United Press International

12:45 pm -- Real Solutions for Strengthening the Productive Economy
(Served Luncheon)

• The Hon. Grant Aldonas
  Scholl Chair in International Business, Center for Strategic & International Studies
  Former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs
• Kent Hughes
  Director, Program on Science, Technology, America and the Global Economy
  Woodrow Wilson Center
  Former President, Council on Competitiveness
• Joel Kotkin
  Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
• Richard Vague
  CEO, Juniper Financial Corporation
  Former Co-Founder and CEO, First USA Bank
• Delore Zimmerman
  President and CEO, Praxis
  Director, Red River Valley Research Center

Provocateur

• Bruce Stokes
  Schwartz Senior Fellow
  Director, Economic Growth Program, New America Foundation
  Economics Columnist, National Journal

2:00 pm -- Adjournment

*invited

Related Links

• Realizing America's Economic Potential: A Growth Agenda for the New Abundant Economy
• Rebuilding America's Productive Economy: A Heartland Development Strategy
• Press Release on Event and Launch of Economic Growth Program