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Profs and Pints brings professors and other college instructors into bars, cafes, and other venues to give fascinating talks or to conduct instructive workshops. They cover a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, popular culture, horticulture, literature, creative writing, and personal finance. Anyone interested in learning and in meeting people with similar interests should join. Lectures are structured to allow at least a half hour for questions and an additional hour for audience members to meet each other. Admission to Profs and Pints events requires the purchase of tickets, either in advance (through the link provided in event descriptions) or at the door to the venue. Many events sell out in advance.
Although Profs and Pints has a social mission--expanding access to higher learning while offering college instructors a new income source--it is NOT a 501c3. It was established as a for-profit company in hopes that, by developing a profitable business model, it would be able to spread to other communities much more quickly than a nonprofit dependent on philanthropic support. That said, it is welcoming partners and collaborators as it seeks to build up audiences and spread to new cities. For more information email profsandpints@hotmail.com.
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Peter Schmidt, Founder, Profs and Pints
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See all- Profs & Pints Alameda: Trump, Trade Wars, and Globalization’s FutureFaction Brewing, Alameda, CA
Profs and Pints Alameda presents: “Trump, Trade Wars, and Globalization’s Future,” with Christopher M. Meissner, professor of economics at the University of California Davis and author of One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850.
[Tickets available only online at https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/profsandpints/alameda-trade .]
President Donald Trump’s recent declarations of stiff trade tariffs have many observers ready to proclaim the end of globalization. At least in the United States, free trade and open borders seem to be becoming relics of the past.
Gain perspective and insights on such developments and what they mean for our nation and the world with Christopher Meissner, an authority in comparative economic history and an expert on international financial crises, exchange rate policy, and international trade and finance.
Professor Meissner will explore today’s turn to tariffs in historical context, examining whether evidence supports President Trump’s assertion that past impositions of tariffs enabled our nation to grow rich. He’ll discuss the impact of past tariffs in terms of trade tensions, geopolitical rivalries, financial turmoil, and economic trends.
We’ll tackle the question of whether our nation’s latest tariffs—the highest imposed by the United States since World War II—are likely to lead to re-industrialization and prosperity or will come at regrettably high costs in terms of efficiency and prices paid by consumers. Dr. Meissner will present evidence showing that tariffs can prove effective in generating jobs in targeted sectors, but it takes a lot more than them to build a world-class, globally competitive economy.
Finally, we’ll look at the question of whether globalization has much of a future without the United States. Dr. Meissner will make the argument that globalization is unlikely to be permanently over, despite facing challenging times ahead. That said, America’s economic relationships with the world are almost certainly on a downward trajectory in the immediate foreseeable future. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
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