[Scpg] Oct. 17 5:45pm ‘Fixing the Global Economy’ Focus of Free Public Forum in Santa Barbara Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St.

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Oct. 17  5:45pm ‘Fixing the Global Economy’ Focus of Free Public Forum 
in Santa Barbara Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Central Library, 
40 E. Anapamu St

‘Fixing the Global Economy’ Focus of Free Public Forum in Santa Barbara

Center for Global Dialogue event will feature former ABC News 
correspondent Sander Vanocur as moderator

By Marjorie Wass for the Center for Global Dialogue 
http://sbglobal.weebly.com/

The Center for Global Dialogue will present a public forum titled 
“Fixing the Global Economy: Austerity, Stimulus or What?” beginning at 
5:45 p.m. Oct. 17 in the Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Central 
Library, 40 E. Anapamu St.

The event will feature two speakers: Benjamin Cohen, the Louis G. 
Lancaster professor of international political Economy at UC Santa 
Barbara, and Peter Naylor, a professor of economics and finance at Santa 
Barbara City College. Sander Vanocur, former chief diplomatic 
correspondent for ABC News and television writer for the Washington 
Post, will moderate.



The event will focus on the current downward spiral of global economies 
and how best to solve the ever-expanding situation. Cohen and Naylor 
will address the issue of government spending and whether it can help 
national economies recover or only serve to deepen the crisis.

“Global economies appear to be fast approaching a financial precipice 
with no apparent agreement how to fix the problem,” said Peter Haslund, 
founding board member and current chair of the Center for Global 
Dialogue. “Our organization has been closely following the situation, 
and we feel it is important for each and every Santa Barbaran to be as 
informed and involved as possible. We urge everyone to attend this free 
event.”

The Speakers

Cohen has been a member of the faculty of political science at UCSB 
since 1991, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on international 
political economy. He previously taught at Princeton University and at 
the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

His research interests mainly involve issues of international monetary 
and financial relations, and he has written about matters ranging from 
exchange rates and monetary integration to financial markets and 
international debt. His newest book, The Future of Global Currency: The 
Euro Versus the Dollar, was published in 2011 by Routledge.

Naylor is a professor of economics and finance, and Chairman of the 
Finance, International Business & Marketing Department at SBCC. Before 
his current position, he was assistant professor of economics at Pitzer 
College from 1977-81 and served as vice president of the Bank of 
Montecito from 1981-86.

The Moderator

Vanocur served as White House correspondent and national political 
correspondent for NBC News in the 1960s and early 1970s. After leaving 
NBC in 1971, he worked for PBS and as a television writer for the 
Washington Post.

He joined ABC News in 1977 and worked there until 1991, holding various 
positions, including chief diplomatic correspondent, and was anchor for 
Business World, the first regularly scheduled weekly business program. 
He covered the 1997, 1998 and 1999 World Economic Summits and was chief 
overview correspondent during the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections. 
He has taught at Duke University.

Refreshments will served at 5:15 p.m., with the program beginning at 
5:45 p.m. Click here for more information about the forum.

The Center for Global Dialogue is an association of groups and 
individuals that fosters nonpartisan discussion of significant and 
challenging issues in the global village.

— Marjorie Wass is a publicist representing the Center for Global 
Dialogue. http://sbglobal.weebly.com/