Whither The World: The Political Economy Of The Future

Event Series: 

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 8:00pm-10:00pm (ended)

223 Moses Hall 

Grzegorz W. Kolodko, Former Finance Minister of Poland

Professor Kolodko was a key architect of the successful Polish economic reforms and served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in 1994-1997 and in 2002-2003.  He will talk about his latest book where he proposes an interdisciplinary and comprehensive methodology to understand the evolution of the world in the 21st century. What are the biggest challenges and opportunities? What are his proposals about how to move forward?

Sponsored by the Institutions and Governance Program (iGov), the Institute of European Studies and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.