30th Annual Monetary & Trade Conference: Demographics, Politics, and Economic Growth
Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Behrakis Grand Hall, Drexel University, 32nd St. & Chestnut St., 32nd St. & Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Join GIC as we partner with Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business for our annual half-day conference, this year focusing on the impact demographics has on politics and economic growth.
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30th Annual Monetary & Trade Conference: Demographics, Politics, and Economic Growth
Changes in the size and composition of a country’s population are gradual, even glacial, in comparison to the fast pace of economic change and financial market volatility. Yet these changes will exert strong influences on the path of economic growth and the political stability and character of a country. What types of populations are supportive of the development of democratic style governments? When a bulge of retiring workers wants to sell its large houses and financial assets to a smaller group of younger residents, what happens? What are the implications of the age pyramid for the ability of a country to fund its social liabilities? Can there be “job creation” if there is no population growth? If population growth is achieved through immigration rather than through a high citizen birth rate, what happens?
Join GIC as we partner with Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business for our annual half-day conference, this year focusing on the impact demographics has on politics and economic growth.
Panels will include:
Demographics and Economic Growth:
- Dr. Jack Goldstone, George Mason University and the Mercatus Center
- Peter Berezin, Managing Editor, BCA Research
- Moderator: Paul Jensen, Professor of Economics, Le Bow College of Business, Drexel University
Demographics and Democracy:
- Dr. Richard Cincotta, Demographer-in-Residence, The Stimson Center
- Moderator: Dr. Mimi Sheller, Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy Drexel University
- Richard Hokenson, Hokenson, Inc.
- John Mauldin, Frontline Observer, NY Times Best Selling Author of Bull’s Eye Investing
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Speakers
Richard F. Hokenson
Richard F. Hokenson founded Hokenson & Company in May 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Hokenson was the Director of Demographic Research at Credit Suisse First Boston where he was responsible for analysis and forecasting of global demographic trends and their associated economic and investment implications.
Bill Dunkelberg, Ph.D.
Chief Economist, National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)William Dunkelberg is professor emeritus of economics in the College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, where he served as dean of the School of Business and Management from 1987 through 1994 and as director of the Center for the Advancement and Study of Entrepreneurship. He served as the Global Interdependence Center’s Chairman for 20 years.
Peter Berezin, Ph.D.
Managing Editor, BCA ResearchPeter Berezin joined BCA Research in 2010, as a managing editor and member of the BCA research team. Mr. Berezin joined BCA after spending three years as vice president and senior global economist with Goldman Sachs in New York. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in New York. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Peter spent 7 […]
John Mauldin
Editor, Thoughts from the FrontlineJohn Mauldin is a renowned financial expert, a New York Times best-selling author and a pioneering online commentator. Each week, over 1 million readers turn to Mauldin for his penetrating view on Wall Street, global markets and economic history.
Richard Cincotta
Demographer-in-Residence, The Stimson CenterRichard Cincotta is a political demographer and currently demographer-in-residence at The Stimson Center, as well as the consultant on politico-demographic issues for the Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program, both in Washington, DC. From 2006-09, Dr. Cincotta served as the political demographer in the National Intelligence Council's Long Range Analysis Unit, and he continues to consult for the NIC. His research focuses on the demographic transition and its relationships to political, social, economic, and environmental change.
George Tsetsekos, Ph.D.
Francis Professor of Finance and Dean Emeritus Drexel’s LeBow College of BusinessDr. George Tsetsekos, serves as the Francis professor of Finance and Director of the Risk Management Center at the LeBow College of Business. He served as Dean of LeBow (2002-2012) and under his transformative leadership the college achieved national rankings and quality milestones in research and teaching.
Jack A. Goldstone, Ph.D.
Hazel Professor of Public Policy and Fellow of the Mercatus Center, George Mason UniversityJack A. Goldstone (Ph.D., Harvard University) is the Hazel Professor of Public Policy and a Fellow of the Mercatus Center of George Mason University, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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