EVENTS | Conferences | April 2007

Democracy and the Future

Wednesday, April 11th
9am-3pm

The Sheraton Commander Hotel
16 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Sponsored by the Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics, Harvard University

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Program

9:00am
"Failures of the Open Society Concept in America and Elsewhere"—George Soros (Chairman, Open Society Institute) Commentator: Amartya Sen (Harvard University)

10:45am-12:00pm:
“Voting, the Future, and the Franchise”—Lani Guinier (Harvard Law School)

12:00-1:15: Lunch

1:15pm-2:30pm:
“Behavioral Biases, Soft Paternalism and Democracy”—David Laibson (Harvard University) Commentator: Richard Holden (MIT)

2:30-3:00:
Concluding Remarks—Amartya Sen

Contact information:
Jessica Barnard, Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics
Email: jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu