…ic policy. The public economics frame, with rigorous weighing up of social cost and social benefit with equity concerns to the fore, provided a structure to thinking and analysis which Tony demonstrated in his theoretical excursions, but also in his empirical and policy contributions. My most recent interaction with Tony was on one of his final projects. Tony chaired the World Bank’s Commission on Global Poverty, of which I was a member and whose…
Sustainability and Human Rights: Ethical Dimensions of an Urban Agenda
…and finally within Washington DC. The second panel looks at Sustainability–broadly defined to include community, human, and environmental dimensions–in Washington DC and its environs. See the attached program, including speakers. For the workshop, we ask that working “Northerners” contribute $5 to help defray the cost of the workshop. Students, not-working Northerners, and participants from the Global South, any spare change is appreciated but…