Clausen Center for International Business and Policy

Debate: "Is the world really flat?"


Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Wells Fargo Room , Haas School of Business
Description:

"Is the World Really Flat?"


Andrew K. Rose, Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Professor of International Trade and Director of the Clausen Center for International Business & Policy, and Richard K. Lyons, Sylvan Coleman Professor of Finance and Acting Dean of the Haas School, will discuss the recent work of Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times.


Moderator: Sebastian Teunissen, Excutive Director of the Clausen Center


Winners of the Clausen Fellowships will also be announced.


Reception will follow in the Bank America forum.


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TAKING SIDES


Affirmative position
Richard K. Lyons, Sylvan Coleman Professor of Finance


"Though I respect some of the research [Professor Rose] has done (most actually), on this issue he's stuck in the past, lost in a world of frictions that, operationally, the world has moved beyond. I'm just surprised that he would put himself in the position of defending that side. "


Negative position
Andrew Rose, Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Professor of International Trade


"John Lennon once wrote 'Imagine there's no country.  It isn't hard to do.'  That seems to capture the views of my opponent, and I take it about as seriously as other lyrics by Lennon like 'I am the Walrus.'" ~Andrew K. Rose