Drafting the Mandate! Political Economy of Europe WG opens a discussion

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Every year, the coordinators and organizers of each YSI working group come together to develop their group’smandate. They realign the group’s efforts and activities around a set of high level research questions, anddetermine which projects warrant particular attention. This allows to set the group’s research themes, headline projects, and partnerships, as well as its academic …

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Call for Projects & Contributions – 2021 Working Group Mandate Meeting

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Dear Members of the Philosophy of Economics Working Group (PE-WG), The PE-WG is in the process of compiling the WG Mandate for 2021 to set plans and strategies for the upcoming year. For this, we would like to invite all the WG members to propose and brainstorm about new projects and collaborations. Please join us …

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project Series Seminario GIHPTE-YSI (2020-21)

Undergraduates 2 (Spanish)

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In this special session undergraduate students from Universidad Nacional will present term papers on the history of Colombian economics. The presentations and discussion will be in Spanish. Ricardo Alejandro Peña“From Political Economy to Economics: How Statistics, Graphs, and the State Forged Twentieth Century Economics”http://www.fce.unal.edu.co/media/files/CentroEditorial/documentos/econografos/EE/econografos-EE-151.pdf Daniela Cárdenas Sánchez“La economía del desarrollo como un producto del contexto”http://www.fce.unal.edu.co/media/files/CentroEditorial/documentos/econografos/EE/econografos-EE-148.pdf

The Great Demographic Reversal with Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan

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Are we heading into a future with higher inflation, higher interest rates and less inequality? That is what Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan propose in their book 'The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival'. Goodhart and Pradhan propose that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse multi-decade …

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Inventing Human Capital: Work, Education, and the Labor Market

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Although human capital ideas have long animated public and policy discourse about education, training, employment, debt, skills, family structures, migration, and healthcare, our understanding of the origins of this framework remain somewhat limited. Historians of the period have thus far treated human capital theory as a phenomenon that appears almost exclusively in the work of …

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Chapter 7 – Defining and Measuring Complexity

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Hey everyone, After discussing Complexity in different environments, next session we will talk about the daunting question "How can we quantify it?"Looking forward to hear your opinions on what could be a main property of Complexity and to search for examples in Economics together. See you soon, Oindrilla & Valentin

Book Presentation: “Techno-féodalisme: Critique de l’économie numérique”

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Link for today:Unirse a la reunión Zoomhttps://youngscholarsinitiative.zoom.us/j/95401606413?pwd=SnhveDhNOVoxYTVPNmF0Y0pDdEduQT09 Presentation of the book “Techno-féodalisme: Critique de l'économie numérique” 19 April, 10 am ETCédric Durand (University of Geneva and Centre d'Économie Paris Nord)“Techno-féodalisme: Critique de l'économie numérique” https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/technofeodalisme-9782355221156

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From Capital to Capabilities – Webinar by Dr Aliya Khalid

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ReDe presents the Webinar: From Capital to Capabilities: ‘Capable’ mothers and their daughters’ access to education - Treading the pathway of silences With Dr Aliya Khalid Aliya has a PhD in gender, education, and development from the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on how mothers in the South navigate their agency …

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