Title of Presentation: Shareholder, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Performance: A Post-Enron Reassessment of the Conventional Wisdom

Title of presentation: How Rising Income Inequality Affects the Middle Class

Robert H. Frank is Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Robert H. Frank holds a B.S. in mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology, and M.A. in statistics. He is a Professor of Economics at the Johnson School and was the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy in the College of Arts and Sciences from 1991-2001. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Nepal from 1966 to 1968, chief economist for the Civil Aeronautics Board for 1978 to 1980, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1992-1993. Professor Frank's books include Choosing the Right Pond, Passions Within Reason, and Microeconomics and Behavior, and Luxury Fever. The Winner-Take-All Society, co-authored with Philip Cook, was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, and was included in Business Week's list of the ten best books for 1995.

Title of presentation: State-Building: What We Don't Know About Self-Sustaining Institutions in Developing Countries

Francis Fukuyama is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Fukuyama is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, was previously the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a member of the Political Science Department of the Rand Corporation. He is a member of the advisory board for the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Interest, the Journal of Democracy and The New America Foundation. Recent Publications include: Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution; The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order; Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, and The End of History and the Last Man.

Title of presentation: The Impact of New knowledge and World Affairs on Socio-Economics

J. Rogers Hollingsworth is professor of sociology and history at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on comparative political economy. One of his major research interests is the study of how organizational and institutional factors influence different types of innovation. His recent publications relevant to his presentation include Contemporary Capitalism: The Embeddedness of Institutions (with Robert Boyer, 1997); Governing Capitalist Economies (with Philippe Schmitter and Wolfgang Streeck, 1994); The Governance of the American Economy (with John Campbell and Leon Lindberg, 1991); The Search for Excellence: Organizations, Institutions, and Major Discoveries (with Ellen Jane Hollingsworth and Jerald Hage, forthcoming 2004); and Advancing Socio-Economics: An Institutionalist Perspective (with Karl H. Müeller and Ellen Jane Hollingsworth, 2002). He is past president and also honorary fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.

Title of presentation: States, Markets, Societies: From Polylogic to Monologic Forms of Modernity

Nicos Mouzelis is President of Paremvassi, a non-governmental organization promoting the development of Civil Society in Greece. Previously he was a Professor at the London School of Economics.

Recent publications include: Sociological Theory: What Went Wrong? Diagnosis and Remedies, Nationalism in Late Development, Back to Sociological Theory: The Construction of Social Orders, Post-Marxist Alternatives: The Construction of Social Orders, and Politics in the Semi-Periphery: Early Parliamentarianism and Late Industrialisation in the Balkans and Latin America.

Title of presentation: Assembling Publics: New Technologies of Deliberation and Demonstration in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan

David Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation (www.coi.columbia.edu). He is an External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute.

Stark has been developing theoretical and empirical approaches to heterarchical organizational forms characterized by distributed intelligence and multiple evaluative principles. He has carried out field research in Hungarian factories before and after 1989, in new media startups in Manhattan before and after the dot.com crash, and in a World Financial Center trading room before and after the attack on September 11th. Supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, he is currently conducting research on the evolution of inter-organizational networks in Hungary and on new technologies of deliberation and representation in the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan.

Stark's recent publications include: "Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room" (with Daniel Beunza) Industrial and Corporate Change 2004; "The Organization of Responsiveness" (with Daniel Beunza) Socio-Economic Review 2003; "Distributed Intelligence and the Organization of Diversity in New Media Projects" (with Monique Girard) Environment and Planning A 2002; "Ambiguous Assets for Uncertain Environments: Heterarchy in Postsocialist Firms" (in The Twenty-First-Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective, 2001); and Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in Eastern Europe (with Laszlo Bruszt), 1998. His publications and recent working papers are available online.

Title of presentation: The Twentieth Century's Greatest Speech: Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights

Cass R. Sunstein graduated in 1975 from Harvard College and in 1978 from Harvard Law School magna cum laude. After graduation, he clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, he worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations, including Ukraine, Poland, China, South Africa, and Russia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Sunstein has been Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia, visiting professor of law at Harvard, vice-chair of the ABA Committee on Separation of Powers and Governmental Organizations, chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the ABA Committee on the future of the FTC, and a member of the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.

Mr. Sunstein is a member of the Department of Political Science as well as the Law School. He is author of many articles and a number of books, including After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State (1990), Constitutional Law (co-authored with Geoffrey Stone, Louis M. Seidman, and Mark Tushnet) (1995), The Partial Constitution (1993), Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech (1993), Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict (1996), Free Markets and Social Justice (1997), Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy (1998) (with Justice Stephen Breyer and Professor Richard Stewart and Matthew Spitzer), One Case At A Time (1999), Behavioral Law and Economics (editor, 2000), Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do (2001), Republic.com (2001), Risk and Reason (2002), The Cost-Benefit State (2002), and Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide (2002). He is now working on various projects involving the relationship between law and human behavior.