[Jtpa-list] (Resend) MIT-CNC: Japan and Italy, Lessons from their Political and Economic Past and Implications for the Future

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Japan and Italy
- Lessons from their Political and Economic Past and Implications for  
the Future

Date: 04/18/2003 Fri
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati
Location: 950 Page Mill Rd. Palo Alto, CA
Cost: FREE! [Reservation Required]
Contact: ralph_lin@alum.mit.edu

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Jointly sponsored with MITCNC by Wilson Sonsini, the Silicon Valley  
Japanese Professional Association, and the Japanese Technology  
Professionals Association.

How can we apply economic and political lessons from the past to guide  
our future?  At first glance, the emergence of modern Italy and Japan  
may appear to share little in common. However, MIT Professor Richard  
Samuels will provide fresh insights and examples that show despite  
their completely different national identifies, both countries have  
traveled strikingly parallel paths towards modern economic and  
political development.

Professor Samuels will also share his thoughts and perspectives on what  
has worked and not worked for each of these nations, and how historical  
events will shape the future of Japan and Italy moving forward.

Professor Samuels has recently published a book titled MACHIAVELLI'S  
CHILDREN - Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan

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About Professor Richard Samuels

Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science  
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Director of  
the Center for International Studies.  He is also the Founding Director  
of the MIT Japan Program.  In 2001 he became Chairman of the Japan-US  
Friendship Commission, an independent Federal grant-making agency that  
supports Japanese studies and policy-oriented research in the United  
States.

Professor Samuels served as Head of the MIT Department of Political  
Science between 1992-1997 and as Vice-Chairman of the Committee on  
Japan of the National Research Council until 1996.  In 1992 he was  
elected a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He has been  
awarded three Fulbright Fellowships, an Abe Fellowship, and a National  
Science Foundation Research Grant to support five separate extended  
research trips to Japan, enabling a total of seven years of field  
research in Japan.

Dr. Samuels has written or edited nine books, most recently:  
Machiavelliers and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan (Cornell  
University Press, 2003), a comparative political and economic history  
of political leadership in Italy and Japan.  His 1994 study, ist for  
the Mainichi Shimbun, and in 2001 he became a columnist for Newsweek  
Japan.

Dr. Samuels received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of  
Technology, Department of Political Science in 1980.  He received his  
MA from Tufts University in 1974, and his AB from Colgate University,  
magna cum laude, in June 1973.
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