Conference on Economic Globalization Begins Tomorrow By Sue Kropp
	Keynote Speaker Anne Krueger		MARCH 9, 2000--The departments of economics and politics will cosponsor a conference that will give an interdisciplinary evaluation of the effects of economic globalization and global institutions Friday, March 10, and Saturday, March 11. The Financial Crisis Conference will bring together scholars and policy makers at the Adam Joseph Lewis Center's Hallock Auditorium. The conference is free and open to the public. The keynote speaker, Anne Krueger '53, will lecture Friday at noon. Krueger, Ritch Professor of Humanities and Science in the Department of Economics at Stanford University, has served as the president of the American Economics Association and as an Oberlin College trustee. Her talk will be "Interactions between Financial and Exchange Rate Crises and the Implications for the IFI's." Krueger will be available to talk with students and answer questions after her lecture. At 9:30 A.M. Saturday, Ron Herring, director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and professor of government at Cornell University, will speak on political and land-reform issues in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Saturday's lecturers include Anthony Lanyi, director of research at the Center for Institutional Research and the Informal Sector at the University of Maryland; Jeff Winters '82, associate professor of politics at Northwestern University; Jeff Frieden, professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University; and William Easterly, lead economist in the macroeconomics and growth division of the development-research group at the World Bank. Saturday's final lecture will be followed by a chance for students to meet and talk with the speakers. The Williams-Smith Series on Capitalism and Democracy is sponsored by the Oberlin College Department of Politics, the Department of Economics, the Social Sciences division, and the Danforth Lecture Fund. For a more complete schedule of the conference and the speakers' papers, see the economics-department web site. The conference is funded by the Williams-Smith fund. The fund, named for Jeanette Williams Smith '39 and William G. Smith '38, commemorates the couple's 60 years of government service and their gratitude to Oberlin College. The fund provides resources for lectures on private enterprise and democracy.
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