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project Series Can we combine innovation with sustainable development?

New conflicts and inequalities issues on XXI century: technology effects

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The aim of this presentation is to have a preliminary discussion around the structural dynamics of prices and quantities in an era of smart technologies. On the one hand, accelerated automation has the potential of triggering economy-wide productivity spillovers but may be conducive to the upsurge of diffused technological unemployment. On the other hand, descentralised, …

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project Series Valsa Brasileira: Do boom ao caos econômico (Laura Carvalho) Reading Group

Valsa Brasileira | Chapters 1 & 2

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Session 1, 23 May, 10am BRT Chapter 1, O Milagrinho brasileiro: um passo à frente | Summary by Isadora PelegriniChapter 2, A Agenda Fiesp: um passo ao lado | Summary by Ana Bottega Session 2, 30 May, 10am BRT Chapter 3, A panaceia fiscal: um passo atrás | Summary by Vanessa AvanciChapter 4, Acertando os …

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*POSTPONED* 2020 Pre-ESHET Workshop: Politics and Economic Thought

University of National and World Economy (UNWE) ulitsa "8-mi dekemvri", Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria

Dear participants, This event is postponed to September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will inform you about the new definite date in due time. Best, Ana Paula, Julia, Marius The YSI History of Economic Thought working group organizes the 2020 Pre-ESHET Workshop on the topic “Politics and Economic Thought”. The workshop will take …

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project Series YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinars

YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar: Gerda Asmus

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Gerda Asmus, Phd candidate from Heidelberg University and UCSD will present her work: State Presence and Local Economic Development: the Russian State in the Urals. If you wish to attend, please register for the entire series here: https://forms.gle/LtqDgzoDtAojZg1S8 Attendees will receive by email on Wednesday morning the link to join the webinar. Abstract:Abstract: This study …

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project Series Contemporary Philosophy of Economics: A reading group

Epistemology of Economics: Soros (2013) Fallibility and reflexivity

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This will be the last session of our reading group. During the last session, we will discuss a paper by Soros (2013) to complement our journey in analyzing the Philosophy of Economics. Soros (2013) argues that: *"the failure is more profound than generally recognized. It goes back to the foundations of economic theory."* Most importantly, …

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project Series Conversations Around Pandemics in Africa in the Wake of COVID-19

Economic impact and responses to Covid-19 in South Africa

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Although the African continent has suffered comparatively lower number of cases and deaths due to COVID-19 than other continents, we should still be worried since the continent has more poverty and inequality, and weaker healthcare systems to deal with a possible surge of cases in the future. It is also now common knowledge that the …

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UNRAVELING THE MACROECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID-19

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The uncertainty brought in by the pandemic is unprecedented; governments across the world are caught in a quagmire. The response of lockdown and social distancing though helpful in containing the spread is at the same time leading to devastating effects on the economy. Rising unemployment, loss of livelihood, mass migration and starvation has made us …

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The Political Economy of the COVID-19 Crisis in Latin America

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The current crisis associated to the COVID-19 pandemic has already led to an unprecedent health and economic crisis in Latin America. The region has recently experienced a period of economic slowdown and political turmoil. The new pandemic will probably have long-term consequences on the already precarious social and economic situation in Latin America. On top …

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project Series Valsa Brasileira: Do boom ao caos econômico (Laura Carvalho) Reading Group

Valsa Brasileira | Chapters 3, 4, 5

Virtual Project Virtual Project

*PLEASE NOTE, USE THIS MEETING LINK: https://youngscholarsinitiative.zoom.us/j/94986685368* Session 1, 23 May, 10am BRT Chapter 1, O Milagrinho brasileiro: um passo à frente | Summary by Isadora PelegriniChapter 2, A Agenda Fiesp: um passo ao lado | Summary by Ana Bottega Session 2, 30 May, 10am BRT Chapter 3, A panaceia fiscal: um passo atrás | …

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