What are the best ways to structure economic regulation in an age of rapid technological change, financial crises, fraying social safety nets, globalization, and the reemergence of concentrated corporate power? In February 2008, the Tobin Project launched an ongoing conversation among leading scholars and lawmakers framed by this important and timely question with a conference, Toward a New Theory of Regulation. Our second conference on the economic role of the state, Ferment in the Face of Crisis, was held in April 2009.
2009 Conference Overview
The April 2009 conference, Government & Markets: Ferment in the Face of Crisis, gathered sixty leading scholars and policymakers to facilitate a long-term reevaluation of the relationships between the market and the state in the wake of the financial crisis. At the heart of the economic turmoil has been debate about the role of regulation and deregulation both in precipitating the crisis and finding possible remedies; this conference will help lay the seeds for a new consensus on regulatory structure and theory.
Working Papers from the April 2009 Conference
Participating Scholars
2008 Conference Overview
The February 2008 Tobin conference, Government & Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, brought together leading scholars from numerous disciplines, with the challenge of rethinking the theory and practice of economic regulation. The conference was structured around the idea that new ideas are urgently needed on the appropriate regulatory relationships between government and business and, by extension, the most constructive roles that markets and the state can play in our society.
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Working Papers from the February 2008 Conference
Participating Scholars
White Oak Conference & Residency Center
The Government & Markets conferences were held at the White Oak Center in Yulee, FL. Since 1993, White Oak has been the site of national and international conferences dealing with a broad spectrum of issues, with premier facilities and private surroundings on 7,400 acres of forests and wetlands.
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Conference Support
Generous support for the Tobin Project’s February 2008 and April 2009 conferences on Government & Markets were provided by The Howard Gilman Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
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