Growth - Contraint or Opportunity



7th Dialogue on Science,
October 15 to 17, 2008

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October 15
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October 17

08:30

Registration of Participants

10:30

Introduction to the conference

Klaus Hug

President of the Foundation

11:00

Chair: Klaus Hug

Introduction to the conference

Martina Weiss

Programme director

12:00

Chair: Klaus Hug

Introduction to the topic “Growth”

Joel Mokyr

Northwestern University, Evanston

12:45

Lunch

14:00

Chair: Reinhard Nesper

Economic Growth and Welfare

Hansjörg Siegenthaler

University of Zurich

15:00

Chair: Reinhard Nesper

Panel discussion Growth: Goals & Achievements – Hazards & Disadvantages

Kuno Rüst / Gerd Folkers / Paul Embrechts

Monastery of Engelberg / ETH Zurich / ETH Zurich

16:00

Chair: Reinhard Nesper

Workshops

Members of Studienstiftung as Facilitator and Rapporteurs

18:30

Dinner

20:00

Chair: Dominik Galliker

Public Evening (in German): Wachstum – Fluch oder Segen?

Participants

22:00

Nightcap

06:30

Morning Activity «In the Spirit of the Location»

08:30

Chair: Michelle Grant

Making development aid work: New methods in impact evaluation

Dina Pomeranz

Harvard University, Boston

10:30

Chair: Michelle Grant

What kind of Growth in Our Countries?

Moderatoren und YES Team

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Chair: Jakob Nüesch

Banking Growth: Compulsory or Voluntary

Werner H. Peyer

UBS, Zurich

14:30

Chair: Jakob Nüesch

Chinese Success – A Miracle!?

Ling Shen

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China

16:00

Chair: Jakob Nüesch

Wherewith can one be satisfied?

David Steindl-Rast

Network for Grateful Living

17:30

Evening Event on the Titlis

06:30

Morning Activity «In the Spirit of the Location»

08:30

Chair: Felicitas Pauss

Growth and Ecology: Where are the Limits?

Lucas Bretschger

ETH, Zurich

09:30

Chair: Felicitas Pauss

Political Institutions and Economic Growth

Gebhard Kirchgässner

University of St. Gallen

10:30

Chair: Felicitas Pauss

Old Sciences for a new type of Progress?

Ernst von Weizsäcker

Donald Bren School for Environmental Science and Management, UCSB, Santa Barbara

11:30

Chair: Jakob Nüesch

Reflections

Doris Leuthard

Federal Government Councillor, Bern

12:30

Chair: Jakob Nüesch

Closing Remarks and Outlook

Klaus Hug

President of the Foundation

12:45

Farewell-Lunch

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