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Events and Highlights

Panels

Panel 1: The Effects of the Economic Crisis on Developing Countries
Presenter: Paul Collier
Respondents: Michael Kremer, Mauro De Lorenzo
Moderator: Michael Magan
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Panel 2: Trust in Markets and the Financial Crisis
Presenter: Luigi Zingales
Respondents: Ann Owen, Robert Jensen
Moderator: Ryan Streeter
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Panel 3: Social Capital and Religious Engagement
Presenter: Robert Putnam
Respondents: Byron Johnson, Volker Then
Moderator: Mauro De Lorenzo
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Panel 4: Subjective Well-Being in Developing Countries
Presenter: Carol Graham
Respondents: Bruno Frey, Sabina Alkire
Moderator: Roger Bate
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Panel 5: Two Governance Case Studies: The Middle East and Peru
Presenters: Robert Beschel, Tarik Yousef, Philip Levy
Respondents: Daniel Drezner, Edmund Malesky
Moderator: Jean Geran
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Panel 6: Post Conflict Reconstruction: Lessons from the 20th Century
Presenter: Jeremi Suri
Respondents: Peter Feaver, Allan Stam
Moderator:: William Inboden
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Dinner Remarks:
St. Augustine and the neoKantian Utopia (Jean Bethke Elshtain)
Three paradoxes (Walter Russell Mead)