Inventing Human Capital: Session 1
April 17: 9:00-11:30 PST Introduction and Welcome Panel 1: Education and Inequality
April 17: 9:00-11:30 PST Introduction and Welcome Panel 1: Education and Inequality
April 17: 12:00-3:00 PST Panel 2: Wages, Salaries, and the Valuation of Human Capital BREAK Keynote address by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University, Chicago: “Indenturing Students: The Federally Guaranteed Business of Education”
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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Hey everyone, After discussing Complexity in different environments, next session we will talk about the daunting question "How can we quantify it?"Looking forward to hear your opinions on what could be a main property of Complexity and to search for examples in Economics together. See you soon, Oindrilla & Valentin
Link for today:Unirse a la reunión Zoomhttps://youngscholarsinitiative.zoom.us/j/95401606413?pwd=SnhveDhNOVoxYTVPNmF0Y0pDdEduQT09 Presentation of the book “Techno-féodalisme: Critique de l'économie numérique” 19 April, 10 am ETCédric Durand (University of Geneva and Centre d'Économie Paris Nord)“Techno-féodalisme: Critique de l'économie numérique” https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/technofeodalisme-9782355221156
In this session, we'll be discussing chapters 6, 7 & 8! If you have missed earlier sessions, you can check out our second meeting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHg0rylPC14&t=1926s
ReDe presents the Webinar: From Capital to Capabilities: ‘Capable’ mothers and their daughters’ access to education - Treading the pathway of silences With Dr Aliya Khalid Aliya has a PhD in gender, education, and development from the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on how mothers in the South navigate their agency …
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We are glad to announce the fourth event of the Webinar Series in 18th-Century History of Political Economy. Professor Abigail Swingen will talk about the connection between the Calico Act and the South Sea Bubble by discussing how both crises intersected ideologically with the popular anxieties about a foreign invasion, Jacobitism, gender, and social order …
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Welcome to our discussion of Chapter IV - The Art of Central Banking (from Ralph Hawtrey's book with the same title). For this session, we will be focusing on the following sub-chapters (pages 116 - 174): The Lender of Last ResortThe London Discount MarketThe Bank of England Before 1844The Bank of England, 1844-73Eligible Bills and …
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Pilar Torres (LSE) and Juanita Villaveces (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) will present the paper "Making women visible. Gender bias in Colombian Economic History Courses." The presentation will be in Spanish.
The price level is the average price of goods in terms of money. As Perry Mehrling's money view emphasizes, the price level also describes the price of money in terms of goods. But what forces lie behind behind the determination of the price level? This week, we will discuss a recent paper by Lance Taylor …
This week we will be talking about the properties of something being alive and how to model them using computer programs.To relate this with Economics we ask you to think about economic examples that showcase: Autonomy Metabolism Self-reproduction Survival instinct Evolution and adaptation When you read about genetic algorithms consider the applicability of their method, …
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