Economists for Peace and Security (EPS) is a

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accredited and registered global organization and network of thought-leading economists, political scientists, and security experts founded in 1989 that promotes non-military solutions to world challenges, and more broadly, works towards

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and freedom from want for all. Since 1995 EPS has been registered with the

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and the

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. Since 2006 the UK branch of EPS publishes a

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ed journal, the ''Economists for Peace and Security Journal'' (EPSJ). In 1995 EPS was involved with criticism of the United States Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico, producing several reports on the subject. Notable trustees of EPS include

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and

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(founding trustees);

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Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, and a full professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and th ...

Robert Reich Robert Bernard Reich (; born June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 i ...

and

Óscar Arias Óscar Arias Sánchez (; born 13 September 1940 in Heredia, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 198 ...

.EPS USA
Trustees
, accessed 1 March 2010 James K. Galbraith was named Chair of the Board of Directors in 1996.

Linda Bilmes Linda J. Bilmes (born 1960) holds the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer Chair in Public Policy and Public Finance at Harvard University. She is a full-time faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School where she teaches public policy, budge ...

was named Co-chair of the Board in 2020. Beginning in 2005, Bilmes and Trustee

drew attention to the economic costs of the US wars in

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and

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at EPS sponsored panels of the American Economic Association. In June 2017, EPS co hosted a conference in Brussels on

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and the future of the transatlantic defense partnership with the Royal Military Academy of Belgium, which emphasized discussion on the geostrategic changes and

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s in global defense. Topics included regional security, economics of security, globalization and global security, economics of conflict and war, economics of the arms trade, arms races and alliances, and the economics of terrorism.

History and background

Inspired by

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, it was founded in 1989 as ''Economists Against the Arms Race'' (ECAAR), before becoming ''Economists Allied for Arms Reduction'' (ECAAR) in 1993. It adopted its present name in 2005.EPS USA
History
, accessed 1 March 2010 Stockbroker

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led its creation.Robert J. Schwartz (2002), ''Can you make a difference?: a memoir of a life for change'', Lantern Books,

Public figures and prominent members

The Economists for Peace and Security Board of Trustees has seventeen Nobel peace prize laureates in the prize for economics, including

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George Akerlof George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. ...

, Daniel McFadden,

Roger Myerson Roger Bruce Myerson (born March 29, 1951) is an American economist and professor at the University of Chicago. He holds the title of the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The Pearson Institute for the ...

Thomas Schelling Thomas Crombie Schelling (April 14, 1921 – December 13, 2016) was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College ...

, William F. Sharpe of Stanford University,

Robert Solow Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (; born August 23, 1924) is an American economist whose work on the theory of economic growth culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him. He is currently Emeritus Institute Professor of Economics at th ...

Franco Modigliani Franco Modigliani (18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003) was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon Univ ...

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, Sir Clive Granger,

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Douglass North Douglass Cecil North (November 5, 1920 – November 23, 2015) was an American economist known for his work in economic history. He was the co-recipient (with Robert William Fogel) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In the wo ...

Jan Tinbergen Jan Tinbergen (; ; 12 April 19039 June 1994) was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis ...

, and

James Tobin James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He d ...

and

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. Other notable trustees include Former US Secretary of Labor

, Former Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou, Former US Secretary of Defense

Robert McNamara Robert Strange McNamara (; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth United States Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He remains the ...

Publications

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ECAAR Review 2003: conflict or development?
', Economists Allied for Arms Reduction, 2003, * Walter Isard, Charles H. Anderton (1992), ''Economics of arms reduction and the peace process: contributions from peace economics and peace science'', North-Holland, - book jointly sponsored with the

Peace Society The Peace Society, International Peace Society or London Peace Society originally known as the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace, was a pioneering British pacifist organisation that was active from 1816 until the 1930s. Hi ...

References

External links

EPS USA

EPS Europe
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