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The Failure of the Welfare State. Market Based Solutions to the Economic Crisis
September 27, Howard Johnson, Platinum Ballroom
Welcome coffee 11:20 –
11:50
Panel 1: Economic recovery between private initiative and the state
Valeriu Stoica (Moderator)
Professor of Law at the University
Of Bucharest
Introduction 11:50 –
12:00
Tom Palmer
Vice President for International
Programs at Atlas Economic
Research Foundation, Senior Fellow
at Cato Institute, Washington D.C.
Keynote Speech: The Welfare State, More Vulnerable to
the Crisis
12:00–
12:15
Lothar Funk
Konrad Adenauer, Germany,
University of Applied Sciences,
Duesseldorf
Lessons of the Social Market Economy for More Stable
Economic Growth and Prosperity
12:15 –
12:30
Pierre Garello
Director of IES‐Europe, is Professor
of Economics at Paul Cézanne
University in
Aix‐en‐Provence
Public Services Can Be Externalized to the Market
12:30 –
12:45
Sever Voinescu
Member of Parliament
Moral Bases of Capitalism. The Romanian Case
12:45 –
13:00
Questions and Comments
13:00 –
13:30
Meal (Informal talk) 13:30 –
14:20
Panel 2: Public Policy Proposals
Note: In Romanian, simultaneous translation in headphones available
Dan Suciu (Moderator)
Producer at Money Channel and
Columnist at ‚22’
Introducere 14:20 –
14:30
Theodor Stolojan
Member of the European
Parliament
Deregulating the Labor Market and Reforming the
Insurance and Welfare Systems)
14:30 –
14:45
Varujan Pambuccian
Member of Parliament
The End of Utopia. Reform Proposals
14:45 –
15:00
Valentin Ionescu
Fmr. Minister of Privatizations
(1997‐1998)
The Market for Local Public Utilities. Regulations and Perspectives for Privatization)15:00 –
15:15
Lucian Croitoru
Counselor to the Governor of the
Central Bank and fmr.Representative to the IMF (2003‐
2007)
External Financial Pressures and Social Imperatives.
Recommendations)
15:15 –
15:30
Questions and Comments
15:30 –
16:15
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