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Confronting America's Growth Challenges and Developing the Heartland

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.

10/30/2006 - 9:45am
10/30/2006 - 2:00pm
Mayflower Hotel - State Room
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC, 20036
United States
See map: Google Maps

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

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