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April 19, 2012

[SSJ: 7398] [Temple ICAS event] 17 May 2012 Tag Murphy: How dollar-centered global finance cost the Democrats the white working class

From: ICAS
Date: 2012/04/19

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*How dollar-centered global finance cost the Democrats **the white working
class*

*Date:* Thursday, May 17, 2012 *Time:* 7:00p.m. (Talk will start at
7:30p.m.) *Venue:*
Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall 212/213
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*Speaker: *
R. Taggart Murphy, Professor and Chair of the MBA Program in International Business at the Tokyo Campus of the University of Tsukuba
*Moderator:*
Robert Dujarric Director of ICAS
*Admission:* Free (Open to general public) *RSVP:* icas@tuj.ac.jp **If you RSVP you are automatically registered. If possible, we ask you to RSVP but we always welcome participants even you do not RSVP.

*Outline*

Whatever the outcome of this year's presidential election, the Democratic Party seems to have forfeited the support of white working class males. A party that once spoke for unions is now seen as the voice of women, minorities, and a globalized, educated elite.
Identity politics, feminism and the McGovern reforms of
1972 are often identified as the causes, but R. Taggart Murphy suggests that the dollar-centered floating rate system and East Asian growth model it helped foster may be equally important.

Tag will attempt to draw connections between the the Democrats' loss of the white working class and the operating logic of the global financial/currency regime. He will speak as a (disgruntled) Democrat rather than from his usual stance as a political economist.

*Speaker*

A former investment banker, Murphy is Professor and Chair of the MBA Program in International Business at the Tokyo Campus of the University of Tsukuba and the author of *The Weight of the Yen *(Norton, 1996) and, with Akio Mikuni, of *Japan's Policy Trap *(Brookings, 2002). He is a coordinator of Asia Pacific Journal:* Japan Focus *and will have a chapter in the forthcoming *International Political Economy Yearbook*. He holds an AB and an MBA from Harvard University ad has lived in Japan for a total of
30 years.
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*Robert Dujarric*
Director* *
*Kyle Cleveland*
Associate Director
*Eriko Kawaguchi*
Coordinator

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