Kristian Braekkan
What’s Happening in Europe? Crisis,
Inequality and Structural Constraints from Greece to Norway...and Places In
Between
Monday, November 9, 2015,
7:00-8:45 PM, Olin 115
The discussion dinner preceding the talk, at 5:30 PM, will be at the
Messa Minerva House.
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World wide media has been riveted to the crisis in the Greek economy and the back-and-forth negotiations between the European Union, led by Germany, and Greece’s left-of-center Syriza party leaders. As the sides haggled, observers noted that the Greek situation was only one aspect of a widening gap separating European democracies, whether in the single currency Eurozone or outside it. This talk interprets events in the European economies against the backdrop of national inequalities and international market forces. It will also compare and contrast the EU situation with what goes on in the Northern European welfare states, with particular emphasis on Norway, a country that remains outside the EMU agreements. Kristian F. Braekkan teaches in the Economics & Management Department at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. Additionally, he teaches courses in the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and the Peace Studies programs. Braekkan’s training is in cognitive and methodological challenges associated with organizational forecasting. His areas of research include the ways in which the employment relationship can be understood and predicted through psychological contracts, how organizational and latent individual constructs can be measured, and labor challenges in late stages of capitalism, focusing on issues of alienation in the workplace. Besides a number of articles in each of these areas, he is the co-author of The Exorcism of our Economism and is at work on a book on the Economics of Sex Work.
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