Corporate Social Responsibility: Was Milton Friedman Right? Applications from Latin America
Thursday, November 8, 2007
7 p.m., Elaine Langone Center Forum Patrice Franko
Colby CollegePatrice M. Franko is Grossman Professor of Economics in the economics department and Professor in the International Studies program at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where she teaches International Finance, Latin American Economic Policy, and Microeconomics.
She currently directs Colby’s Oak Institute for Human Rights. At Colby she has also chaired the International Studies Program, the Economics Department, and East Asian Studies, and is also an active member of the Latin America Studies Program. Nationally, she has been a Pew Faculty Fellow in International Affairs, an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow in International Security Affairs and lectures for EMIL, the executive masters program in logistics at Georgia Tech. She has served as a consultant for the Office of Inter- American Affairs in the Department of Defense, for the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University, and for the Office of International Affairs at the National Academy of Sciences. She currently serves on the boards of the Mid-Maine Global Forum, The AIDS Responsibility Project and the Global Studies Foundation. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, and her many publications include The Puzzle of Latin American Economic Development 3rd edition, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), Toward a New Security Architecture in the Americas: The Strategic Implications of the FTAA (CSIS Press, 2000), and The Brazilian Defense Industry (Westview, 1992). She is currently working on a project on corporate social responsibility in Latin America. She is a graduate of Bucknell University.
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