Peiyuan Li, PhD Candidate from the University of Colorado will present his paper "Who Lost (or Won) China? Land Reform and War Mobilization". Abstract: Land redistribution can be deliberately designed to trigger a civil war. How did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rally millions of farmers to win in 1949? The crucial step was to …
WEBINAR REPLICATE REPLICATE: HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART Replication from a publisher's perspective March 1 (Wed), 20239 am Eau Claire (WI-US), 10am Bogotá, 3pm Lisbon and 4pm Paris(*Our apologies, due to unforseen events, this session was postponed several times. We now hope this is it! Thank you for your understanding*Feb 22 UPDATE: Due to severe …
This is the second of two sessions on Chris O'Malley's 2015 Book Bonds Without Borders: A History of the Eurobond Market. https://www.amazon.com/Bonds-without-Borders-History-Eurobond/dp/1118843886 From the Dust Jacket: Bonds Without Borders tells the extraordinary story of how the market developed into the principal source of international finance for sovereign states, supranational agencies, financial institutions and companies around …
Matteo Sestito, PhD Candidate from the Aix-Marseille School of Economics will present his paper "Crop cycles and hierarchy: the agro-ecological origins of the state" Abstract: Subject to popular flee, internal rebellions and diseases, states have historically developed only under very particular agro-ecological circumstances. This paper advances and empirically validates a new perspective on state formation, …
We are super excited to host Professor Jeffrey Sachs. He serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor. Abstract The lecture will review the flawed philosophical basis of Anglo-Saxon economics and propose a more satisfactory economic ethics for our time. Speaker's Bio …
Join us for this reading group session which will be held on 9 March 2023 at 11:00ET. Jay Pocklington will be facilitating a discussion on The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
Discussion of the 2023 Behavior & Society Working Group Mandate
Pablo Sánchez-Cataldo, M.A. Student from the Santiago de Chile University will present his paper "Patents and Technology Gaps during the Early Industrialization (1870–1910)"
This is the first session when we will cover Ulrich Bindseil's 2014 book "Monetary Policy Operations and the Financial System". We will focus on chapters 1-8, covering the first 100 pages (roughly a third) of the book. From the bookseller's description:"Since 2007, central banks of industrialized countries have counteracted financial instability, recession, and deflationary risks …
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In light of the issues raised above, the Department of Historical Studies at the National University of Lesotho proposes a two-day workshop that seeks to provide a platform on which post-graduate students (both M.A. and Ph.D.) in the Humanities can be empowered with the necessary skills to successfully navigate the rugged academic terrain. The workshop …
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In recent years, Latin America was the scene of massive mobilizations in which the feminist movement has gained prominence. In 2019, the year before the start of the pandemic, the feminist tide flooded Bolivian, Ecuadorian, Chilean, Argentinean, and Colombian streets. When the pandemic started, the feminist movement produced diagnoses and was able to visibilize for …
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WEBINAR REPLICATE REPLICATE: HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART SESSION 12: Women's Participation in the Peace Process - Replication of Krause, Krause and Bränfors March 16th (Thursday), New York & Bogotá 4pm; Lisbon 9pm; Paris 10pm; March 17th (Friday), 8am Sydney In this session Lenka presents a replication of the 2018 article titled "Women’s Participation in …