A Conversation with Ecuadorian presidential candidate Andrés Arauz

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Unfortunately, the webinar is being postponed due to of an urgent personal matter. We will inform you as soon as we have found a new date. Thank you again for your interest! Coming off a victory in the first round of the presidential elections in Ecuador earlier this month, Andrés Arauz, progressive economist of the …

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María Gutiérrez Ruan (Spanish)

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María Gutiérrez Ruan, incoming PhD student at the University of Lausanne, will present her MA thesis "Lab in the field experiments: a new perspective in experimental economics" (U. Paris I). The presentation will be in Spanish. María Gutiérrez Ruan, estudiante de primer año de doctorado en la Universidad de Lausanne, presentará su tesis de maestría …

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project Series Seminario GIHPTE-YSI (2020-21)

José Félix Cataño (Spanish)

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José Félix Cataño, professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia's Department of Economics, will present his paper "La “economia del cuidado” de cierta “economía feminista”: una crítica desde la teoría económica de Marx.". The presentation will be in Spanish. José Félix Cataño, profesor de la facultad de ciencias económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, presentará …

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Money View Symposium | Part 2

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Welcome back to Part 2 of the Money View Symposium. The initial Money View Symposium took place on the weekend of 5-7 February, 2020; you can find the recordings here. The Money View Symposium showcases work of scholars and practitioners that make use of the money view. We have a particular interest in seeing how …

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Magnifying Spaces of Capitalism: A Collective Experiment

Faculty of Geography and History at the University of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

The Young Scholar Initiative (YSI) Economic History Working Group and the University of Santiago de Compostela are organizing a two-day workshop on 11-12 March. The theme will be "Magnifying Spaces of Capitalism: A Collective Experiment." In the wake of the recent and still-ongoing pandemic, the world has realized the importance of global interdependences and the …

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Reading Group Recurrent Meeting

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Welcome to week one of the Price Level (Fourth Price of Money) discussion and webinar group. We have a weekly standing video meeting time at 9 am Eastern Time (America/New York) every Saturday. For this coming Saturday, March 13th, we will be reading and discussing "Two routes back to the old Phillips curve: the amended …

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Political Economy in the mid-18th Century Habsburg Monarchy

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We are glad to announce the third event of the Webinar series in 18th-Century History of Political Economy. Simon Adler will talk about Political Economy in the mid-18th Century Habsburg Monarchy by exploring the ideas of the Austrian Enlightenment economist Ludwig Zinzendorf. The webinar is open to everyone interested in the topic.You can join the …

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Political economy of medical R&D and access: the case of Covid-19 vaccines

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It is widely accepted that combating the COVID-19 pandemic requires a global collaborative effort and knowledge sharing to ease the development and distribution of new health technologies at affordable costs. However, in contrast, the world has witnessed the strengthening of Big Pharma companies together with "vaccine nationalism". While the rents of a few big pharmaceutical …

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Reading Group Recurring Meeting

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Welcome to week two of the Price Level (Fourth Price of Money) discussion and webinar group. Our weekly standing video meeting time is 9 am Eastern Time (America/New York) every Saturday. For Saturday, March 20th, we will be continuing our discussion of "Two routes back to the old Phillips curve: the amended mainstream model and …

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Minsky | Session 1

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Minsky by Daniel H. Neilson --Flyer and discount code for book-- March, 24th March, 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm GMT / 6:00 pm CET (attention: switch to daylight savings time) Chapters discussedCh 1 - IntroductionCh 2 - Financial capitalismCh 3 - A payments theory of financeCh 4 - The inadequacy of economics