Spring 2018 Meeting of the M-RCBG Advisory Council
Background Reading
(1) The State of Foreign Policy and Global Affairs: Samantha Power
- Samantha Power: How Mike Pompeo Could Save the State Department
- Samantha Power: The world in her rearview mirror
- The Final Year
(2) China in the World: Graham Allison, William Overholt, Anthony Saich
- The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War? (Graham Allison)
- Behold the New Emperor of China (Graham Allison)
- China, America and the World: Realist Geoeconomics (William Overholt)
- Can Chinese Think? (William Overholt)
- What Does General Secretary Xi Jinping Dream About? (Tony Saich)
- How the West Got China Wrong (The Economist)
- What to Do About China’s “Sharp Power” (The Economist)
(3) Macro Issues and Financial Challenges: Jason Furman, Stanley Fischer
- As Boomers Go Gray, Even 2% Growth Will Be Hard to Sustain (Jason Furman)
- Why Presidents Shouldn’t Talk About the Stock Market (Jason Furman)
- Macroeconomic effects of the 2017 tax reform (Jason Furman)
- I’d Rather Have Bob Solow Than an Econometric Model, But . . . (Stanley Fischer)
- Monetary Policy Expectations and Surprises (Stanley Fischer)
- Stanley Fischer: Government policy and labor productivity (Stanley Fischer)
- The Low Level of Global Real Interest Rates (Stanley Fischer)
(4) Technology, Jobs and Inequality: Lawrence Katz, David Deming
- Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation (David Autor)
- Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share (Larry Katz)
- Get a liberal arts B.A., not a business B.A., for the coming artisan economy (Larry Katz)
- Imagining a Future of Work That Fosters Mobility for All (Larry Katz)
- The Value of Soft Skills in the Labor Market (David Deming)
- Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work (David Deming)
- The golden ticket to higher paying jobs: Hard skills plus social skills (David Deming)
Administrative Contacts
- Kelly_Friendly@hks.harvard.edu, cell: 617-631-0677
- Scott_Leland@hks.harvard.edu, cell: 617-413-0249