Fwd: MIT China Forum: Arvind Subramanian, April 9, 4:30-5:30pm, E62-276

[Hui Huang]

*************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** MIT China Forum Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance by Arvind Subramanian Monday, April 9, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. MIT Building E62-276  free & open to the public light refreshments provided In his new book, Arvind Subramanian presents the following possibilities: What if, contrary to common belief, China's economic dominance is a present-day reality rather than a faraway possibility? What if the renminbi's takeover of the dollar as the world's reserve currency is not decades, but mere years, away? And what if the United States' economic pre-eminence is not, as many economists and policymakers would like to believe, in its own hands, but China's to determine? Subramanian's attempt to quantify and project economic and currency dominance leads him to the conclusion that China's dominance is not only more imminent, but also broader in scope, and much larger in magnitude, than is currently imagined. He explores the profound effect this might have on the United States, as well as on the global financial and trade system. Subramanian is senior fellow jointly at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development. His book Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance was published in September 2011. Foreign Policy magazine has named him as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers in 2011. http://www.piie.com/eclipse.cfm For more information, please contact Sean Gilbert at (617) 253-5068 or se...@mit.edu MIT MISTI China Program MIT MISTI Singapore Program MIT International Science & Technology Initiatives (MISTI) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building E40, Room 425 Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 617-253-5068 Fax: 617-258-7432 http://web.mit.edu/misti/mit-china http://web.mit.edu/misti/singapore.html