The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
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The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University conducts interdisciplinary and policy-relevant research on a wide range of issues that contribute to long-term improvements in the human condition. Through programs of scholarship and outreach, the Pardee Center works to disseminate the collective knowledge and experience of scholars and practitioners in an effort to ensure that decisions made today lead to better outcomes tomorrow. Visit the Center's website to learn more.
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The cost of debt-financed war: public debt and rising interest for Post-9/11 war spending
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The role of religion in the longer-range future, April 6, 7, and 8, 2006
(Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 2006)The conference brought together some 40 experts from various disciplines to ponder upon the “great dilemma” of how science, religion, and the human future interact. In particular, different panels looked at trends in what ... -
Heretical thoughts about science and society: Frederick S. Pardee distinguished lecture, November 1, 2005
(Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 2005-11-01)Freeman Dyson illuminates the importance of having heretics to challenge assumptions, and gives six heretical predictions of his own. The first is that American hegemony will not last until the next century. The second is ... -
Africa 2060: good news from Africa, April 16, 2010
(Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 2010-04)This report provides commentary reflecting upon and information pertaining to the substance of the conference. An introductory overview looks at the major issues discussed at the event, which are placed within the larger ... -
Thoughts About Development: Which Are Mere Fads? Which Are Here to Stay?
(Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 2005)Paul Streeten outlines the changes in the development discourse, from economic growth as the solution to poverty, to the sustainable development paradigm, to human development, and all the nuances in between. Economic ... -
Development that works, March 31, 2011
(Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 2011-03)The theme and the title of the conference—”Development That Works”—stemmed from the conference organizers’ desire to explore, from a groundlevel perspective, what programs, policies, and practices have been shown—or appear ... -
Regulating global capital flows for long-run development
(Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 2012-03)This report is the product of the Pardee Center Task Force on Regulating Global Capital Flows for Long-Run Development convened in September 2011 on behalf of the Pardee Center’s Global Economic Governance Initiative led ... -
Games for a new climate: experiencing the complexity of future risks
(Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 2012-11)This report is a product of the Pardee Center Task Force on Games for a New Climate, which met at Pardee House at Boston University in March 2012. The 12-member Task Force was convened on behalf of the Pardee Center by ... -
Trade in the balance: reconciling trade and climate policy: report of the Working Group on Trade, Investment, and Climate Policy
(Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 2016-11)This report outlines the general tensions between the trade and investment regime and climate policy, and outlines a framework toward making trade and investment rules more climate friendly. Members of the working group ... -
Must runaway science be regulated?
(Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 2003)Modern society takes a completely different view of curiosity than ancient society did. The Tower of Babel, the wings of Icarus, Pandora’s Box, and of course, Adam and Eve, all punish human beings for extending their search ...
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