NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Corruption and Reform Planning Meeting
July 14, 2002
Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin, Organizers
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Saturday, July 13, 2002
7:00 PM Dinner - Legal Seafood Restaurant,
5 Cambridge Center
Kendall Square, Cambridge
Sunday, July 14, 2002
9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
9:30 AM Introductions - Preliminary Remarks: Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin
10:00 AM EDWARD GLAESER and ANDREI SHLEIFER, Harvard University and NBER
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM WILLIAM NOVACK, University of Chicago
Progressivism in America
The Legal Origins of the Modern American State
11:45 AM Break
12:00 Noon LEE ALSTON, University of Illinois and NBER
KARA NORLIN, University of Illinois
Corruption: Insights from the Past and Present
12:45 PM Lunch
1:45 PM General Discussion
Background Paper: Morton Keller, Brandeis University
Corruption in America: Continuity and Change
Background Paper: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Public Ownership in the American City
2:45 PM Break
3:00 PM Summation and Future Directions for the Conference - Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin
3:30 PM Adjourn
5/30/02