The development black box: capabilities, structural change and innovation

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

Click above to register and attend online! A two-day workshop on the determinants and sources of economic development hosted by the Institute of Economics (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies) and the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI). The event is intended to discuss established and new perspectives on the overall development process among young and senior scholars. …

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Christine Desan – Making Money | Session 3

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This is the third of three sessions to discuss Christine Desan's book Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism. For this session, we will discuss chapters 8-11 and the conclusion. Book Description: "Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or …

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CfP Inequality WG Session @ 23rd Annual Conference of the AHE

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Dear all, The YSI Inequality Working Group happily announces a special session to be held during the 23rd Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) (“Structural Inequalities Uncovered - the Contributions of HeterodoxEconomics in Tackling Racial and Gender Inequality”). We invite young scholars (PhD and MSc students) to submit working papers for discussion. …

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Economic Development WG Session at the 23rd Annual AHE conference

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Dear all, The Economic Development Working Group (EDWG) invites young scholars to submit papers for presentation at the YSI EDWG panel on "Chaning World of Labour and Work" at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE), and receive feedback from a senior mentor in the area. Theme: The changing world of …

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Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How they shaped India and the World

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From lockdowns to lockups, viruses to vaccination, the movement of people to the movement of bowels, from rats to cats, and more, The Age of Pandemics chronicles the many facets of the cholera, plague and influenza pandemics, which claimed over 70 million lives between 1817 and 1920, with India being the epicentre in all these …

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The Age of Pandemics, 1817-1920: How they shaped India and the world

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Welcome to our special session co-organised by South Asia WG, History of Economic Thought WG and Economic History WG! We are delighted to have Julia Marchevsky, History of Economic Thought, and Sergio Castellanos-Gamboa, Economic History as co-organisers of this session within our larger project! The special session will discuss the core thesis of Chinmay Tumbe's …

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Introduction to Complexity Economics – Conclusion with Dr. Melanie Mitchell

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Hello everybody! As some of you know we have been exploring the book "Complexity: a Guided Tour" by Dr. Melanie Mitchell throughout the last weeks. To conclude our exciting quest to understand complexity economics, we are extremely excited to have Dr. Melanie Mitchell with us on July 1st 2021, to shed light on our discussions …

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Week 7 — Lecture 12, Midterm Review, Reading 6

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We're discussing the following for week 7: Lecture 12: Lender/Dealer of Last Resort Lecture NotesIn 2008, the shadow banking system collapsed onto the conventional banking system, which was ultimately backstopped by the Fed. A central bank can go from being a lender of last resort (funding liquidity) to a dealer of last resort (market liquidity) …

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KEDG 2021.1 – 4th meeting (webinar)

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April 7 - Guilherme Morlin: "Growth and debt stability in a supermultiplier model with public expenditures and foreign trade" May 6 - Ana Bottega: "Kalecki meets Schumpeter: the decline of competition in a demand-led dynamic model" June 2 - Gustavo Pereira Serra: "The First Harrod Problem and Human Capital Formation" July 1 - Vinicius Curti …

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Sectoral patterns of innovation and the evolution of industrial structure

Viale Pola 12 Rome, Lazio, Italy

Our project consists of participating as young scholars to the 18th International Schumpeter Society (ISS) Conference (http://iss2020.it/), that will take place in Rome (8-10 July 2021). The International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society is an economics association aimed at furthering research in the spirit of Joseph Schumpeter. The primary objective of the ISS is the advancement …

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Mutual Aid and the (Post)Pandemic Framework – Prof. Nidhi Srinivas

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In this webinar of the YSI IUC Web-Seminars in Finance, Law & Economics, Nidhi Srinivas, the Associate Professor of Management at Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment, will present some insights from his current research regarding mutual aid responses to the pandemic in three different cultural and economic settings (Hyderabad, India; New York City, …

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