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YSI Writing Group – Meeting#3 Feedback Session – RESCHEDULED

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The YSI Writing group meet monthly and centers on improving writing skills through community approach.We try to support each other as young scholars on their writing journey.In our Feedback Sessions, we mainly talk about texts from other young writer we looked at beforehand. Next session, we will comment and give feedbacks on this paper. We …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

A Market Theory of Money | Session 1

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This is the first of two sessions on the 1989 book A Market Theory of Money by John Hicks. https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Wars-Rise-Global-Liquidity/dp/3030392902/ From the Description: Sir John Hicks draws together the common threads of over 50 years' writing on monetary economics into a succint (sic) statement of the fundamentals of monetary theory. He also goes beyond this …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Reading 1: Allyn Young

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Reading 1: Four encyclopedia chapters by Allyn Young. Young Study Questions Writing in the 1920s, Young shares his perspective on the nature of money and credit, the importance of a monetary standard, and the purpose of banking. He also runs through a brief history of the United States banking system leading up …

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The role of economics and economists in times of digital data

Campus San Giobbe, Ca' Foscari University of Venice Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, Italy

INET Young Scholars Workshopfollowing the INEM ConferenceCampus San Giobbe, Ca' Foscari University of Veniceorganized byINET YSI Philosophy of Economics Working GroupMay 26, 2023, 3-7 pm, Venice, Italy These days we are witnessing PhD graduates in economics embarking on careers as data scientists in big tech companies. Economists have also a growing interest in the recent …

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project Series STI and Development Policy Experiences in LAC

How academia can (and should) support policymakers

Virtual Project Virtual Project

In this webinar, Professor Mariana Mazzucato, the Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, will discuss the need for new economic thinking to support effective policy, in conversation with Professor Carlota Perez and YSI. This discussion will explore the broader relationship between theory and practice, and between academia and policymakers. Dissatisfied …

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Care Economics: Towards new directions of research

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

In his works Adam Smith, one of the founding fathers of modern economics, theorised the pivotal role of self-interest in the economy. What modern economics did not say (until Marçal’s book “Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?”) is that, for his entire life, Smith’s mother cooked him dinner. Not out of self-interest, but out of love. …

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PhD Academy on Innovation, Development & Policy

HEC MONTREAL, CANADA Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Québec, Canada

The Ph.D. Academy on ‘Innovation, Development & Policy’ is co-organized by The North America and Caribbean Chapter of the Globelics Academy (NACLICS, www.naclics.org), HEC Montréal, and the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University.The Academy addresses innovation, development, and policy from a multidisciplinary perspective and is relevant to the Global South and the Global …

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PhD Academy on Innovation, Development & Policy

HEC MONTREAL, CANADA Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Québec, Canada

The Ph.D. Academy on ‘Innovation, Development & Policy’ is co-organized by The North America and Caribbean Chapter of the Globelics Academy (NACLICS, www.naclics.org), HEC Montréal, and the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University. The Young Scholars Initiative is an important partner in this effort as well as one of the co-sponsors. The PhD …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Lectures 3 & 4

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 3: Money and the State: Domestic and Lecture 4: The Money View, Micro and Macro. Lecture 3 Notes Lecture 4 Notes Lecture 3 builds on last week's Allyn Young reading in discussing the history of the US monetary system from the Civil War through the national banking system's evolution into the …

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YSI @ Turin International Festival of Economics

Turin Turin, Piedmont, Italy

“Rethinking Globalization” YSI will be attending the second Turin International Festival of Economics hosted from 1 June - 4 June 2023. We will dedicate the mornings to a variety of young scholar sessions and have ample time to enjoy the Festival, which this year runs under the theme: “Rethinking Globalization”. The festival sessions will take …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

Trust Bridges

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Discussion of IMF Trust Bridges paper: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fintech-notes/Issues/2023/03/03/Trust-Bridges-and-Money-Flows-A-Digital-Marketplace-to-Improve-Cross-Border-Payments-528038

project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Reading 2: Hyman Minsky

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Reading 2: The vision of Hyman P. Minsky by Perry Mehrling. Minsky Study Questions This is an intellectual biography of Hyman Minsky written by Mehrling in 1999. Minsky put the problem of liquidity front and center. Among other things, this reading emphasizes Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis and its connection to the settlement …

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