project Series Seminario GIHPTE-YSI (2020-21)

Undergraduates 1 (Spanish)

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In this special session undergratudate students from Universidad Nacional will present term papers on the history of Colombian economics. The presentations and discussion will be in Spanish. Sara Isabel Caicedo“La llegada del economista colombiano a Colombia”http://www.fce.unal.edu.co/media/files/CentroEditorial/documentos/econografos/EE/econografos-EE-160.pdf Diego Alejandro Almonacid“Economics and Politics Sculpting the Colombian Economy: the Case of National Accounts”http://www.fce.unal.edu.co/media/files/CentroEditorial/documentos/econografos/EE/econografos-EE-159.pdf Luis Eduardo Castellanos“Hurdles and paternalism: …

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Reading Group Recurring Meeting

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This week, we're discussing chapter 5 of "The Great Demographic Reversal" by Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan. The title of the chapter is: "The Resurgence of Inflation." Our weekly standing video meeting time is 9 am Eastern Time (America/New York) every Saturday. On April 17th at 12 am Eastern time, the authors will join us …

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South Asia WG Mandate Discussion

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Discussion by members on relevant research areas for future projects and collaborations to be included in the Working Group mandate.

Evolution and Genetics

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Hi all, this Sunday we will discuss chapters 5&6 of Melanie Mitchell's book.Lets explore the connection of these ideas to Economics together! Also we have started to collect the resources and questions we are coming up in a folder which you will be granted access to once you communicate your email next weekend :) Looking …

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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)

Virtual Project Virtual Project

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

Zoom , United States

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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