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project Series YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinars

YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar: First meeting – Meredith M. Paker

Virtual Project Virtual Project

*EVENT UPDATE: to access the webinar, please use ONLY the link sent separately by email. * In this first session of the YSI - Economic History Graduate Webinar, Meredith M. Paker, PhD student at the University of Oxford, will present her work: The Slow Employment Recovery After the Early 1980s UK Recession If you wish …

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project Series YSI COVID-19 Webinar Series

COVID19 and Climate Change

Virtual Project Virtual Project

For several years Geoff Mann has been thinking about the political-economic and geopolitical futures that might emerge in world subject to extreme climate change (especially in collaboration with Joel Wainwright). While the urgency of the climate challenge has not diminished, the coronavirus pandemic, and the wide range of responses on the part of various states …

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The Economic Consequences of Covid-19 in Latin America

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The Covid19 pandemic is a crisis of an unprecedented scale and nature. The measures imposed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 are already beginning to tool on economic system across most of the economic. The impact is likely to be particularly severe for the developing economies. This impact, however, are likely to vary according to …

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II Rio Doctoral Forum on Complexity in Statistics and Economics

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Doctoral Forum on Complexity in Statistics and Economics will be placed at the Economics Institute building in the UFRJ campus, city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The forum will have mentors, senior scholars who would be responsible to give feedback to the students, reading previously the papers and raising comments during presentations. The audience …

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

Epidemics and Pandemics: lessons from the Past

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This Webinar marks the beginning of the Webinar Series: Conversations Around Pandemics in Africa in the Wake of COVID-19. It seeks to put into perspective the history of pandemics and epidemics in Africa. it will also reveal how these were managed in the past by various players including the state, the community and individuals. This …

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Argentine debt restructuring: challenges and perspectives

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Argentina is in the middle of a debt restructuring negotiation with creditors. Among the latter one can count the biggest asset managers in the world, such as Fidelity, BlackRock and others. Argentina has made a proposal with limited capital haircut, lower interest payments and three holiday years. So far, most of international creditors have rejected …

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project Series YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinars

YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar: Matthew Curtis

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Matthew Curtis, PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics at UC Davis will present his work: *Before the fall: Child quantity and quality in pre–transition Quebec. * 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:While …

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Scientific theories and common life

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Reading Group. Scientific theories and common life: The Great Divide in the history of modern thought The aim of this reading group is to study the origins and development of scientific theory from a historical and evolutionary perspective. From this approach we intend to inquire into the need and limits of conventional scientific boundaries and …

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project Series Contemporary Philosophy of Economics: A reading group

Epistemology of Economics: Kirman (1992) Representative Individual

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Next session we will discuss a paper by Alan Kirman (1992). The author analyses the epistemological shortcomings of representative agents for macroeconomic analysis. Kirman (1992) argues that *" well-behaved individuals need not produce a well-behaved representative agent; that the reaction of a representative agent to change need not reflect how the individuals of the economy …

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project Series YSI @ Keynesian Economics Debate Group (KEDG)

KEDG 2nd Meeting

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The Keynesian Economics Debate Group (KEDG) is continuing its activities! The second meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 13th at 6 pm ET. In this second meeting, we will discuss Luiz Tornaghi's paper, "The golden age and development economics". As in the first meeting, we are proposing a short presentation (15min) followed by discussion. We …

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