Word: bellagio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invitations to the authors, and selected the critics and panelists for the conference (set over a half-year later). The conference--numbering 25 to 30 people--often takes place at the House of the Academy in Brookline. More recently, these conferences have been held abroad at Paris and Bellagio. Overseas sites have attracted a number of foreign scholars to Daedalus and the Academy...
...that the scheme would produce economic warfare: nations would demand that their foreign debtors pay off fully and immediately in gold-and many countries would not have enough gold to go around. Many nations would then have to embargo gold, raise tariffs, restrict trade. At a recent meeting in Bellagio, Italy, 30 of the world's top 32 international economists opposed a return to the gold standard...