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project Series Expanding the frontiers of economics: Evidence from South Asia

Rents and Rural Land Markets in India: Beyond Accumulation

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The special session will host Dr. Mihika Chatterjee. Dr. Chatterjee is departmental lecturer at Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. We are lucky to have Prof. Dr. Sony Pellissery, Director, Institute of Public Policy, and Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Bengaluru, as the discussant. Abstract Rents from …

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project Series YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar – Spring 2022

Jon Denton-Schneider

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Jon Denton-Schneider, PhD Candidate from the University of Michigan will present his paper Colonial Institutions, Marriage Markets, and HIV: Evidence from Mozambique. ABSTRACT:During the colonial period, several types of extractive institutions organized much of economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Historians argued that two of them —one pushing men into circular migration and one restricting their …

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YSI @ the Fifth Nordic Post-Keynesian Conference

Create Aalborg University building Rendsburggade, Aalborg, Denmark

The Keynesian Economics Working Group is glad to announce a new partnership with the Fifth Nordic Post-Keynesian Conference organized by The Macroeconomic Methodology, Theory and Economic Policy research group, at Aalborg University (MaMTEP). As part of this partnership, YSI will offer accommodation and partial travel stipends to selected young scholars who will present at the …

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What Future for EU Fiscal Policy?

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Interview with Gert-Jan Koopman, Director-General of the European Commission's budget department Chatham House rules apply When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed. …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 4: The Money View, Micro and Macro

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 4: The Money View, Micro and Macro This lecture connects up the money view with Hyman Minsky's cashflow-oriented view of the economy. The payments system is a credit system. The expansion of credit makes ordinary payments possible. But sometimes the expansion of credit has to come from above in the hierarchy. …

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project Series Dissecting capitalism: Season II

Capitalism and climate change: An Asian perspective

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The introductory session of the webinar series will feature Professor Jayati Ghosh. She is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. Abstract The inequalities and institutional structures of global capitalism are preventing humanity from preventing climate change or responding adequately to its ferocious effects. I consider how this is playing …

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Pisa YSI’s 10 years celebration

Pisa Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

YSI has just turned 10 years and we want to celebrate with the local community! This local event will take place Monday 2nd of May at the beautiful city of famous personalities like Galileo Galilei and Leonardo Fibonacci. We want to invite the local YSI community to join us in the festivity event.

A History of Feminist and Gender Economics by Giandomenica Becchio

Virtual Project Virtual Project

In this webinar, Pr. Giandomenica Becchio (University of Torino) will give a presentation of her book A History of Feminist and Gender Economics recently published by Routledge (2020). The book is a historical investigation of how feminist and gender economics have developed both inside and at the fringe of the economics discipline. In particular, Becchio's …

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project Series YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar – Spring 2022

Tehreem Husain

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Tehreem Husain, PhD Candidate from University College London (UCL) will present her paper Time-varying Relationship between Returns on Government and Railway Securities 1880-1913: An Empirical Analysis. ABSTRACT:Investment guides and newspaper reports published during the first era of globalisation refer to ‘railway securities being more lucrative in the long-run’ and ‘all British stocks subject to the …

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Bridging the gap between practitioners and academics in cooperatives

School of Social Work Midlands State University Harare, Harare Province, Zimbabwe

INTRODUCTIONThe Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) Cooperatives Working Group together with the Helper (a humanitarian arm of the Midlands State University, Department of Development Studies) is hosting a workshop on the 5th and 6th of May 2022. The workshops brings together development practitioners/co-operators with academics in an endeavour to craft strategies for cooperatives post- Covid 19 …

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project Series Reading Group on CHINA’S LAND USE PLANNING AND POLICY

SESSION 2: FINANCIALIZATION | YSI Reading Group on CHINA’S LAND POLICY

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Between MARCH and JUNE 2022, the Philosophy of Economics WG will conduct four sessions to discussing CHINA’S LAND USE PLANNING AND POLICY. SESSION 2 will focus on two articles by Fulong Wu on the impact of neoliberalism in China’s economic reform and cities. How does neoliberalism impact the planning of cities? The session will feature …

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