Eu centers proposal submission guidelines

YEAR 1:
November 2011 – Conference 1:
Alternatives to Austerity

The conference will bring together specialists from the US, Europeans working in the US, and selected specialists from Europe. The purpose of the conference will be to compare conditions and analyses, and to discuss alternatives to a prolonged economic decline, high unemployment, and sustained assaults on public institutions and the welfare state.

Proposed 17 participants:
EU Participants:

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  Andor Laszlo, Hungary: European Commissioner for Employment
  
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  John Eatwell, UK, President, Queens College, Cambridge (Senior Adviser, British Labour Party)
  
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  Christian Chavagneux, France, Editor, Alternatives Economiques
  
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  Hugo Sousa, Portugal, Ministry of Economics
  
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  Alessandro Roncaglia, Italy, University of Rome
  
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  Bruno Amoroso, Italy, Roskilde University (Denmark) and Federico Caffé Society, Rome
  
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  Theodore Pelagidis, Greece, University of Piraeus
  
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  Anatole Kaletsky, UK, Journalist and author
  
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  Aurore Lalucq, France, Initiative for Rethinking the Economy
  

US Participants:

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  Jan Kregel, Levy Economics Institute (formerly University of Bologna)
  
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  Randall Wray, University of Missouri, Kansas City
  
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  Robert Guttman, Hofstra University and University of Paris
  
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  Steven Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
  
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  Norman Birnbaum, Georgetown University Law Center
  
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  Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  
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  Robert Blecker, American University
  
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  James Galbraith, University of Texas at Austin