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 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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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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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 …
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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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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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 …
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 …
Epistemology of Economics: Kirman (1992) Representative Individual Read More »
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 …
Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, the role, nature and efficiency of the African state has become subject of debate. Like the 2008 global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic will change the structure of economies as we know them today. It is, therefore, an opportune moment to discuss the evolving …
Fiscal and Monetary Implications of COVID-19 in Africa and Beyond Read More »
We need to decide some issues as type of sessions, type of presentation, how many hours per day, which topics for the call for papers and so on