Week 4: MODULE 1: ABMs in Economics
Virtual Project
Inoue, H. & Todo, Y. Firm-Level Simulation of Supply Chain Disruption Triggered by Actual and Predicted Earthquakes. SSRN Electronic Journal (2017). doi:10.2139/ssrn.3074997
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Regulatory Cycles: Revisiting the Political Economy of Financial Crises
Virtual Project
The Finance, Law, and Economics working group is glad to invite you to our next webinar, in which we will discuss an IMF Working Paper entitled: Regulatory Cycles: Revisiting the Political Economy of Financial Crises. Jihad Dagher, its author, will share with us the multidisciplinary approach followed in the paper, which combines rich historical insights …
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EMAEE YSI Workshop 2019
University of Sussex Business School SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Brighton, England, United KingdomThe Young Scholars Initiative’s Complexity Economics Working Group (YSI - CEWG) and Latin America Working Group (YSI – LAWG) in partnership with the Science and Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex Business School invite PhD students to submit their extended abstracts to the first Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) Workshop at the 2019 …
Theories of Money and Credit with Sheila Dow
Virtual Project
Sheila Dow, University of StirlingDate: Thursday, June, 6thTime: 11AM (EDT time) - 5PM (CET time) – 4PM (UK time)The first session aims to provide a general introduction and understanding based on a historical review of the different strands of economics that are attached to endogenous money.Reference: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195390766.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780195390766-e-008Profile: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/256439http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=VCHIC71
The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union – Webinar Erik Jones
Virtual Project
The Finance, Law, and Economics working group is thrilled to announce a new webinar from this interdisciplinary series! We are glad to have Erik Jones on board with us, who will discuss a forthcoming book contribution entitled The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union. AbstractThe purpose of this chapter is to explain why so many …
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Week 5: MODULE 3: Economic Evolution
Virtual Project
Readings: Friedman, Daniel. "On economic applications of evolutionary game theory." Journal of Evolutionary Economics 8.1 (1998): 15-43. Whitley, Darrell. “A Genetic Algorithm Tutorial.” (http://cobweb.cs.uga.edu/~potter/CompIntell/ga_tutorial.pdf) Discussion Questions: What is an evolutionary game, and what do you have to define to set one up? How are evolutionary games useful for studying economics? Genetic algorithms are very efficient …
2019 HES-YSI workshop
Columbia University New York, New York, United StatesThe YSI History of Economic Thought working group together with HES will organize a creative writing workshop in New York on June 19, the day before the History of Economics Society annual conference. The workshop will be led by Tiago Mata, lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at UCL, and Paul Dudenhefer, staff specialist at …
PDI Conference in NYC
PDI conference New York, New York, United StatesSelected young scholars, based on participation in the webinar series, academic qualifications, diversity, etc. will be given a chance to attend the PDI conference in New York.
The Code of Capital: Book Talk Webinar with Katharina Pistor
Virtual Project
Join us for a webinar with Professor Katharina Pistor of Columbia Law School to discuss her new book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality. Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere …
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NY Workshop “Alternative futures for Capitalism”
INET' Office Park Avenue South, New York, New York, United StatesOnce more capitalism is at crossroad. The combination of persistent financial fragilities, growing income and wealth inequalities, the rise of right wing populisms, the weakening confidence in the EU integration process and the major ecological crisis that the world is about to face, represent major challenges. In this context geopolitics is changing and the results …
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YSI SPECIAL EVENT AT 2019 CHARLES GIDE WORKSHOP
YSI special event at Charles Gide Workshops 2019 Montreal, Quebec, CanadaYSI SPECIAL EVENT AT 2019 CHARLES GIDE WORKSHOPMontreal (QC, Canada), June 25TH, 2019“The relationship between economics and philosophy throughout the history of economic thought” The Université TÉLUQ and Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) are jointly organizing Charles Gide Workshops 2019.The theme of the 2019 Charles Gide Workshop is “Evolution …
Week 6: MODULE 3: Economic evolution
Virtual Project
Readings: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/) Summary of Chapter 9: Reluctant Entrepreneurs in "Poor Economics (https://web.archive.org/web/20190223030131/http://www.pooreconomics.com/chapters/9-reluctant-entrepreneurs) Farmer, J. D. "Market force, ecology and evolution." Industrial and Corporate Change 11, 895–953 (2002). (https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/publications/farmer/marketforce.pdf) <- this is long, if pressed for time please read the section introductions for qualitative understanding. Discussion questions: How do "bullshit jobs" …