This week, we're discussing chapter 5 of "The Great Demographic Reversal" by Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan. The title of the chapter is: "The Resurgence of Inflation." Our weekly standing video meeting time is 9 am Eastern Time (America/New York) every Saturday. On April 17th at 12 am Eastern time, the authors will join us …
Discussion by members on relevant research areas for future projects and collaborations to be included in the Working Group mandate.
Hi all, this Sunday we will discuss chapters 5&6 of Melanie Mitchell's book.Lets explore the connection of these ideas to Economics together! Also we have started to collect the resources and questions we are coming up in a folder which you will be granted access to once you communicate your email next weekend :) Looking …
Every year, the coordinators and organizers of each YSI working group come together to develop their group’smandate. They realign the group’s efforts and activities around a set of high level research questions, anddetermine which projects warrant particular attention. This allows to set the group’s research themes, headline projects, and partnerships, as well as its academic …
Drafting the Mandate! Political Economy of Europe WG opens a discussion Read More »
Dear Members of the Philosophy of Economics Working Group (PE-WG), The PE-WG is in the process of compiling the WG Mandate for 2021 to set plans and strategies for the upcoming year. For this, we would like to invite all the WG members to propose and brainstorm about new projects and collaborations. Please join us …
Call for Projects & Contributions – 2021 Working Group Mandate Meeting Read More »
In this special session undergraduate students from Universidad Nacional will present term papers on the history of Colombian economics. The presentations and discussion will be in Spanish. Ricardo Alejandro Peña“From Political Economy to Economics: How Statistics, Graphs, and the State Forged Twentieth Century Economics”http://www.fce.unal.edu.co/media/files/CentroEditorial/documentos/econografos/EE/econografos-EE-151.pdf Daniela Cárdenas Sánchez“La economía del desarrollo como un producto del contexto”http://www.fce.unal.edu.co/media/files/CentroEditorial/documentos/econografos/EE/econografos-EE-148.pdf
Are we heading into a future with higher inflation, higher interest rates and less inequality? That is what Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan propose in their book 'The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival'. Goodhart and Pradhan propose that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse multi-decade …
The Great Demographic Reversal with Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan Read More »
Saturday, April 17, 9:00-11:00 PST
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 …
Inventing Human Capital: Work, Education, and the Labor Market Read More »
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