Juan Pablo Castilla (Universidad de los Andes) will present his MSc thesis, where he uses topic modeling to shed light on the characteristics of the literature on quasi experiments produced at the economics department of los Andes.
YSI @ ALTEC @ LALICSDeadline: June 30th 2019 The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI)’s Latin America and Complexity Economics Working Groups, in association with the XVIII Latin Iberoamerican Conference of the Association of Technological Management (ALTEC 2019) event and the Latin American Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems (LALICS) would like to …
We'll discuss chapters 6 and 7.
Latin America has historically been a region where economic thinkers conceived theories that challenged status quo and the dominant theories developed in core countries. However, these ideas have mostly remained at the margin of our discipline, whose agenda and predominant approaches are still those developed in certain so called elite or prestigious institutions from core …
Workshop on development planning: Latin American insights and theories. Read More »
The Finance, Law, and Economics working group is glad to announce the second webinar from the "Social Europe" Webinar Series. After hosting our first session with Prof. Vandenbroucke, who set the basis for our discussion, we are pleased to have Prof. Waltraud Schelkle with us. Prof Schelkle will discuss how the risk-sharing mechanisms embedded in …
The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI)’s Latin America and Complexity Economics Working Groups, in association with the Latin American Network for Research on Services (REDLAS) would like to invite young scholars to submit their work to the Workshop YSI/REDLAS “Innovation and New Technologies in Moderning Services: Opportunities and challenges for Productivity in Latin America and Caribbean”. …
We'll discuss chapter 6.
Daniel W. O’Neill et al., 2018, A good life for all within planetary boundaries Jason Hickel and Giorgos Kallis, 2019, Is Green Growth Possible? Jason Hickel, 2018, Is it possible to achieve a good life for all within planetary boundaries?
The deadline to submit papers and panel ideas is now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied! We have received a lot of interesting submissions. For those who applied to attend without presenting a paper, we hope to fit in as many people as possible. We are aiming for all responses to be sent out …
The organization of the Metropolitan Development Forum is part of the research 'The Metropolis and the Right to the City: knowledge, innovation and action for urban development' from the INCT 2015-2020 program (National Institute of Science and Technology, a brazilian governmental funding program to support research) 'Observatório das Metrópoles', and aims to promote the articulation …
II Metropolitan Development Forum of the RMBH: urban popular economy Read More »
John Mauro Perdomo (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) will present his research on the history of disequilibrium theory "Más allá de los micro-fundamentos: historia de las contribuciones seminales a la teoría del desequilibrio, 1962-1977."
New Deal policies are “coming back”. This statement underlines two important aspects of the potential resurgence of progressive economic policy we witness today. First, the political and economic situation, though in many aspects different, showcases important similarities to that of the beginning of the 20th century. Second, although the current “Green New Deal” proposal addresses …
Green New Deal and its place in the history of progressive economic policy Read More »