SPEAKER
Enrico Moretti - Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley

ABOUT THE SEMINAR

"The New Geography of Jobs"
Enrico Moretti, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley

Wednesday, April 17, 12:00-1:15 pm. 
Venue: McClelland Building, Room M109 - Stanford Graduate School of Business.

As part of a seminar series hosted by SPRIE's Silicon Valley Project, Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley Professor of Economics, will share findings from his recent work, The New Geography of Jobs, described by Forbes as "easily the most important read of 2012." He will discuss the tectonic shifts that are reshaping America’s labor market—from globalization and income inequality to immigration and technological progress, including their implications for Silicon Valley.

More specifically, he will discuss his hypothesis that America’s new economic map shows growing differences between communities in the US dominated by manufacturing and innovation, which have been growing apart at an accelerating rate. This divergence is one the most important recent developments in the United States and is causing growing geographic disparities in other aspects of our lives, from health and longevity to family stability and political engagement. Professor Moretti will also discuss the ramifications of this findings on jobs, such as a multiplier effect by which each new job created in one sector results in the creation of new jobs in other sectors. He found that "the innovation sector has the largest multiplier of all: about three times larger than that of manufacturing."

This talk is part of a seminar series hosted by the Silicon Valley Project at Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Professor Enrico Moretti

Enrico Moretti is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley where he holds the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Career Development Chair in Labor Economics. He is the Director of the Infrastructure and Urbanization Program at the International Growth Centre (London School of Economics and Oxford University). He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge), and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and at the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn).  His research interests include Labor Economics, Urban Economics and Applied Econometrics. 

His new book, THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF JOBS, is now available in bookstores.

Abstract:

It has been said that constitutional court judges around the world increasingly participate in a "global judicial dialogue" that causes judges to make increased use of foreign law.  This is a dialogue, however, from which the members of the Taiwanese Constitutional Court are largely excluded.  Taiwan’s precarious diplomatic situation and intense lobbying by China have effectively prevented the members of Taiwan's Constitutional Court from participating in international judicial gatherings and official visits to foreign courts. Nevertheless, the Taiwanese Constitutional Court routinely engages in extensive consideration of foreign law, either expressly or implicitly, when deciding cases.  This fact casts doubt on the notion that "global judicial dialogue" explains judicial use of foreign law.  Comparison of the Taiwanese Constitutional Court and U.S. Supreme Court demonstrates that “global judicial dialogue” plays a much smaller role in shaping a court’s utilization of foreign law than institutional factors such as (a) the rules and practices governing the composition and staffing of the court and (b) the extent to which the structure of legal education and the legal profession incentivizes judges and academics to possess expertise in foreign law.

Speaker Bio:

David Law is Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He works in the areas of law and political science, public law, judicial behavior, comparative constitutional law, and comparative judicial politics. Born and raised in Canada, he holds a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford, a B.C.L. in European and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He has previously taught at the University of San Diego School of Law and the University of California, San Diego political science department and has been a visiting professor at the National Taiwan University College of Law, Seoul National University School of Law, and Keio University Faculty of Law in Tokyo, and a visiting scholar at the NYU School of Law. His current research focuses on the identification, explanation, and prediction of global patterns in constitutional law, and his recent scholarship on constitutional globalization and the declining influence of the U.S. Constitution has been featured in a variety of domestic and international media.

In his State of the Union address on February 12 President Obama announced that the US will set up a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union. The US and the EU will soon start negotiations to create the world’s largest free trade area. The agreement will eliminate tariff barriers and harmonize regulatory and technical standards. It is argued that this will add up to two percent to GDP. The US and the EU already trade goods and services worth $ 2.7 billion per day. This seminar will discuss the politics and economics of such an agreement.

This event is part of The Europe Center's series on the "European and Global Economic Crisis."

Francis Fukuyama, has written widely on issues relating to democratization and international political economy.  His most recent book, The Origins of Political Order, was published in April 2011. He is a resident in FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, and a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 

Tu Weiming, has been instrumental in developing discourses on dialogue among civilizations, Cultural China, reflection on the Enlightenment mentality of the modern West, and multiple modernities.  He is currently studying the modern transformation of Confucian humanism in East Asia and tapping its spiritual resources for human flourishing in the global community.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), and a Member of the International Philosophical Society (IIP).     

Sponsored by Stanford Confucius Institute, Beijing Forum, Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University