Posts Tagged ‘Columbia University’
Media and Economic Understanding
In NYC on April 6? Then think about coming to a conference, sponsored by Columbia U’s School of International and Public Affairs and the Roosevelt Institute: “Facing the Fracture: Media and Economic Understanding.”
Featuring a stellar lineup of smart folks, most of whom really really want to make financial issues comprehensible to the uninitiated, including Joseph Stiglitz, Arianna Huffington, Amy Goodman, Peter (no relation to Amy) Goodman, Mike Hudson, Yves Smith, and many more, including yours truly. See you there.
Our Lot’s debt to Revson
I was saddened to receive word this morning that the Charles H. Revson Fellowship for the Future of New York City has lost its main source of funding, from the Charles H. Revson Foundation. I was a 2005-’06 Revson Fellow, which gave me and nine other overworked New York City civic leaders a free year at Columbia University to do whatever we wanted. I signed up for Samuel G. Freedman’s book seminar, and it was there, under the heat of Sam’s sharp pen and exhortations to exercise extraordinary disclipine in every small act of reporting and writing, that I developed the proposal for Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us.
The Revson Fellowship just marked its 30th anniversary and built an extraordinary network of men and women who dared to believe that their actions could make a better world, and who were a little better equipped in that punishing commitment because of the program. I tended to believe that the most important effect we often had was as a positive influence within the preserve that is Columbia University – there’s nothing quite like weighing in on a discussion of Marx at Columbia Business School to suggest why his ideas just might have appeal.
How the homes we live in turned into the monsters that ate our economy and the United States became a nation obsessed with real estate.
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- Affordable Housing Centers of America
- Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
- Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program
- Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
- Center for Responsible Lending
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- Drum Major Institute
- Joint Center for Housing Studies
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- National Consumer Law Center
- National Housing Institute
- National Housing Trust
- National Low Income Housing Coalition
- National Training and Information Center
- Natn’l Community Reinvestment Coalition
- NEDAP
- New America Foundation
- PolicyLink
- Pratt Center for Community Development
- Revson Fellowship
- Smart Growth America
What Alyssa reads
- Baseline Scenario
- Ben Smith
- Bloomberg News
- Calculated Risk
- City Limits
- Consumer Law and Policy Blog
- Doug Henwood
- Felix Salmon
- Galleycat
- Housing Wire
- Mother Jones
- Next American City
- Paul Krugman
- PolicyCents
- Ryan Avent
- Shelterforce
- Street Level
- Talking Points Memo
- The Audit
- The Balance Sheet
- The Big Picture
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