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“Economics and the Economic System: The Ecological Transition”

Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Dipartimento di Economia, Ingegneria, Società e Impresa (DEIM) Viterbo, Lazio, Italy

The Inequality, Political Economy of Europe, and States and Markets Working Groups are happy to announce a call for papers to the YSI Pre-conference@ STOREP 2022. We invite you to submit your abstract to the pre-conference event organized by the Young Scholars Initiative at the STOREP annual conference. The pre-conference will take place at Università …

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project Series YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar – Spring 2022

Kai Cheng

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Kai Cheng, recently got his PhD from the University of Birmingham and will be presenting his paper The Impact of the Environment on Urbanisation During the late Qing Dynasty. ABSTRACT:In this paper we examine the relationship between environmental factors and urbanisation both theoretically and empirically. The aim is to provide additional inputs into the explanation …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

Money and Empire | Session 1

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This is the first of two sessions to discuss "Money and empire: The international gold standard, 1890-1914" by Marcello De Cecco. We will cover chapters 1-4 this session. From a published review: "The author, a Professor of International Economics at the University of Siena, Italy, finds highly abstract theoretical explanations of the international gold standard …

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project Series Decolonizing Economic Methodology Reading Group

Session-3: Decolonizing Economic Methodology Reading Group

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This reading group aims at exploring how the perspective of the postcolonial scholarship could open up new approaches to philosophy of economics/economic methodology. Our endeavor is inspired by the vibrant discussion on the need, possibility and promise of decolonizing economics. Once a month we will read and meet online to discuss a selection of chapters …

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project Series Dissecting capitalism: Season II

Expulsions: The Rise of Extractive Logics in our Economies and Societies

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session of the webinar series will feature Prof. Saskia Sassen. She is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at the Columbia University, New York City. Abstract Among the strong patterns of the post 1980s period in so called Western Economies is a mix of economic and political vectors marked or shaped by extractive …

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project Series Dissecting capitalism: Season II

The Laws of Capitalism

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session of the webinar series will feature Prof. Katharina Pistor. She is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and director of the Law School's Center on Global Legal Transformation. Abstract Why is capitalism, a system that is coded in law so resilient to legal governance? In an attempt …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Reading 3: Charles Dunbar

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Reading 3: The Check System, a chapter from Chapters on the Theory and History of Banking by Charles Dunbar The reading is a description of the checking system in the US in the late 19th century. It reinforces what we covered in Lecture 5 by describing the "decentralized" check-based payment system of …

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YSI @ Turin International Festival of Economics

International University College of Turin Piazza Pietro Paleocapa, Torino, Piemonte, Italy

“Merit, diversity and social justice” INET and YSI will be participating in the first Turin International Festival of Economics hosted from 31 May - 4 June 2022. We will dedicate the mornings to a variety of YSI sessions at the International University College of Turin. We will, of course, have ample time to enjoy the …

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project Series YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar – Spring 2022

Sofia Tsitou

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Sofia Tsitou, researcher from University of Macedonia will present her paper The Implications of the Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey on Literacy and Employment Rates of the Native Population. ABSTRACT:This paper sheds lights on the implications of a major historical event, i.e., the population exchange between Greece and Turkey that was officially agreed in …

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YSI HET International Circulation of Economic Ideas throughout History

Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany

++ CONFERENCE POSTPONED ONCE AGAIN DUE TO COVID-19. SUGGESTED NEW DATES: JUNE, 2022 YSI HET International Circulation of Economic Ideas throughout History Where: Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt, Germany. When: 2022 Motivation Ideas do move. People travel, books travel, networks are built, international meetings are held. And they always have. Historians of economic thought have always, …

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