The Philosophy of Economics and the History of Economic Thought Working groups invite the Young Scholars working in this area to join the first round of the Peer Review Project of 2019. Participants can join the project both as author or only as reviewers. However, it is good to have in mind that for each …
Local government is so integral to daily life that it is often taken for granted — as are the fiscal systems that finance public services. However, in times of fiscal austerity, local governments' capability to provide services and infrastructure is put in check. On one hand, this ability grows more important every day as urbanization …
YSI Urban Economics Meeting: Places in Times of Austerity Read More »
Join social.coop reading group members to discuss the exciting new book with author Nathan Schneider! Having read a lot of books about co-operatives, I found this one fresh, fun and inspiring- a testament to the awesome power of co-operatives. Because we will be hosting members from outside of YSI for this reading group session, please …
INTRODUCTIONAs part of the Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) research initiative, YSI members with excellent academic background and proven research interest in FMI are attending the OTC Deriv. & Central Clearing Symposium by the Federal Reserve Bank Chicago in Chicago. FMI RESEARCH INITIATIVE STATUSFMI research initiative seeks to support research in FMI to the benefit of …
FMI research initiative at OTC Deriv. & Central Clearing Symposium, Chicago Read More »
YSI will provide travel stipends for 5 members of the Africa Wroking Group to attend the Mo Ibrahim NGF. The NGF is held ahead of the the Ibrahim Forum, providing a space for young people (under the age of 35) to convene and seek to gather youth perspectives on the themes being discussed at the …
YSI @ Mo Ibrahim Foundation Now Generation Forum Read More »
We are delighted to have Prof. Moritz Schularick (University of Bonn, INET) join us for the first of our three-part webinar series on private debt and the credit cycle. This is a webinar for students with research interests in empirical macro-finance. We will study the growth of finance and ask how and why credit cycles …
Prof. Moritz Schularick – The Great Leveraging: Credit and the Macroeconomy Read More »
THE PAST AND FUTURE OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: RETHINKING AFRICA’S ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION University of Ibadan, Nigeria 10th – 12th April 2019 The debate around Africa’s development has been driven most prominently from outside the continent, preserving a de facto colonial status, while ignoring the complexity of its context. With development economics being more recently influenced by …
The workshop on "Economics of Sufficiency" will be held the day before the beginning of the 2nd Conference of the Andean Society of Ecological Economics in Lima, Peru on April, 8. This workshop is intended to deepen the debate about the sufficiency economy with presentations from senior scholars and debate sessions with participating young scholars. …
While the concept of regional economic resilience is gaining popularity among academics and policy makers, there is no universally accepted definition of resilience. Boschma, as one of the founding scholars of Evolutionary Economic Geography, proposes an evolutionary perspective on regional resilience. He conceptualizes resilience not just as the ability of a region to accommodate shocks, …
“Regional Resilience: Towards an Evolutionary Approach” with Ron Boschma Read More »
From the scientific and industrial revolution to the present day, food – an essential element of life – has been progressively transformed into a private, transnational, mono-dimensional commodity of mass consumption for a global market. But over the last decade there has been an increased recognition that this can be challenged and reconceptualized if food …
3rd webinar: ”Law and economics of food as commons” Read More »
This conference is an interdisciplinary meeting aimed at bringing together graduate students, early-career scholars, and experts in the fields of economic and world history from Georgia State and other universities in the US and abroad. Our goal is to facilitate conversation among participants on research themes/topics, methodologies and approaches, archives and sources, and global connections …
GSU Spring Conference on Global and Economic History Read More »
Professor Jan Toporowski (SOAS) will discuss the historical arguments and contemporary issues on the scope and operations of central banks.