Join us for a webinar with Professor Katharina Pistor of Columbia Law School to discuss her new book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality. Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere …
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Once more capitalism is at crossroad. The combination of persistent financial fragilities, growing income and wealth inequalities, the rise of right wing populisms, the weakening confidence in the EU integration process and the major ecological crisis that the world is about to face, represent major challenges. In this context geopolitics is changing and the results …
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YSI SPECIAL EVENT AT 2019 CHARLES GIDE WORKSHOPMontreal (QC, Canada), June 25TH, 2019“The relationship between economics and philosophy throughout the history of economic thought” The Université TÉLUQ and Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) are jointly organizing Charles Gide Workshops 2019.The theme of the 2019 Charles Gide Workshop is “Evolution …
Readings: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/) Summary of Chapter 9: Reluctant Entrepreneurs in "Poor Economics (https://web.archive.org/web/20190223030131/http://www.pooreconomics.com/chapters/9-reluctant-entrepreneurs) Farmer, J. D. "Market force, ecology and evolution." Industrial and Corporate Change 11, 895–953 (2002). (https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/publications/farmer/marketforce.pdf) <- this is long, if pressed for time please read the section introductions for qualitative understanding. Discussion questions: How do "bullshit jobs" …
The YSI Gender WG together with IAFFE is organizing the pre-conference workshop for young scholars at the 28th IAFFE Conference. The workshop is designed to provide an opportunity for young scholars working on themes related to gender and economics to meet senior feminist scholars, present their work and discuss it in a forum which brings …
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No region can rely on past successes, rather constant transformation and re-invention is necessary for a region to keep developing. Many regional policies, such as smart specialization, aim to support regions in this process of re-invention. Yet, the operationalization of regional development policies has been rather limited because a coherent set of analytical tools to …
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The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is excited to announce a new call for papers. The Keynesian Economics and the Financial Stability working groups are jointly organizing a graduate session at the 16th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy that will take place in Bilbao (Spain), on the 27th and 28th of June, 2019. …
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The French Association for Political Economy (AFEP) and the International Initiative for Promoting the Partnership of Political Economy (IIPPE) are jointly organizing a Conference with the collaboration of other associations, such as the French Association for the Development of Keynesian Studies (ADEK), Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) and European Association for Evolutionary Economics (EAEPE). The …
Readings: Arthur, W. Brian. "Competing technologies, increasing returns, and lock-in by historical events." The economic journal 99.394 (1989): 116-131. McNerney, James, et al. "Role of design complexity in technology improvement." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108.22 (2011): 9008-9013. Discussion questions: What does lock-in, or path-dependency, mean for economic growth?
The recent economic crisis propagated quickly through various channels around the world. In this webinar Prof. Martha G. Alatriste Contreras presents her work on shock propagation through the input- output network which connect industrial sectors in developed economies. She presents alternative models of diffusion on networks and calibrate them using input-output data on real-world inter-sectoral …
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The Economic Development and Political Economy of Europe Working Groups are pleased to announce the call for papers for the YSI session within the School of Advanced Studies in the Reappraisal of the Surplus Approach, to be held in Roma Tre University, 5-13 July. Link here. The Summer School, organized by Centro di Ricerche e …
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We are delighted to host Richard Vague, a leader of the Private Debt Initiative and chair, of the Governor's Woods Foundation, for a final webinar in our series. Richard Vague will present insights from his most recent book "A Brief History of Doom - Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises". Financial crises happen time and …