Camila Franco Restrepo ( Fellow, Overseas Development Institute) will present her paper "Empirical research within an accepted value framework, Dasgupta vs Sen: the example of education as a developmental goal." The presentation will be in Spanish.
Paper title: "Empirical research within an accepted value framework Dasgupta versus Sen: the example of education as a developmental goal."
The world grapples with gender relations on a daily basis. Issues of gender equality and gender equity are contentious in any society, and arguably even more so in Africa where patriarchal social constructs have existed for centuries. In times of crisis, gender disparities are revealed even more and in some instances, disparities become even more …
Gendered humour: Discoursing Playful Engagements Around COVID-19 Read More »
UPDATE: due to some technical issues, the webinar had to be postponed. It will now happen Tuesday, June 16th, at 12:00. Following up the two previous webinar on the Economic Consequence of Covid-19 in Latin America, the Economic Development WG and the Latin America WG are happy to announce yet another episode of this series. …
--- Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the workshop has been cancelled. --- At the leading edge of studies in social sciences and the humanities is the growing field of digital humanities (DH). From applications in history, archaeology, and sociology, to name a few, the expansion of DH over the past decades is impressive. Central to …
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Update: Owing to the local development of Coronavirus, this event has been postponed. A new date will be announced later. Young Scholars Initiative Pre-Conference Workshop @The Politics of Finance – Creditworthiness, Credibility and Reputation on Global MarketsGraduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, 18 June 2020 Three working groups, Development, Financial Stability, and East Asia proposes a pre-conference …
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Thea Don-Siemion PhD student at LSE, will present her work: Interwar Poland’s Late Exit from Gold: A Case of Government as ‘Conservative Central Banker’ 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:Over the past several …
YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar: Thea Don-Siemion Read More »
The Keynesian Economics Debate Group (KEDG) is continuing its activities! The third meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 17th at 6 pm ET. In this month, we will discuss Helena Morais' paper, "Subnational fiscal multipliers: an empirical study of Brazilian municipalities". As in the past ones, we are proposing a short presentation (15min) followed by …
In this webinar Mark Blyth will be discussing the questions of anger, politics and economics that have been in focus of his new book "Angrynomics". Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast …
In the first session of the conference we will approach the role of value in law, economics and law and economics from the standpoint of epistemology. We will have the following three presentations: Felipe Figueroa Zimmermann - Why can’t we be friends? Balancing epistemic values between Law and Economics Discussant: Péter Cserne Maximiliano Marzetti - …
In the second session of the conference we will be discussion the relationship between economics and rights. DuÅ¡an TÅ™Ãska - Towards the search for the universal analytical building blocks: the case of rights and obligations Discussant: Fabrizio Esposito Christian Rasquin - Transparency as a Value in Law and Economics Discussant: Catherine Valcke
In the third session of the conference we will be considering specific legal areas Eva Van der Zee - The role of economic efficiency in EU competition law towards sustainable development. A legal and economic analysis Dsicussant: Jan BroulÃk Massimiliano Vatiero, Magalì Fia and Lorenzo Sacconi - Assessing corporate governance through Amartya Sen’s capability approach …