Green New Deal and its place in the history of progressive economic policy

AT&T Conference Center, The University of Texas at Austin, University Avenue, Austin, Texas, United States

New Deal policies are “coming back”. This statement underlines two important aspects of the potential resurgence of progressive economic policy we witness today. First, the political and economic situation, though in many aspects different, showcases important similarities to that of the beginning of the 20th century. Second, although the current “Green New Deal” proposal addresses …

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YSI Pre-conference “Financialization in Peripheral economies”

National University of Colombia Carrera 45, Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia

There is an increasing interest on the effect of Financialization on the process of economic development. While the role of financial motives, financial markets, and financial actors in the economy has been widely investigated with reference to mature countries, only in recent times the literature has started to address also their influence in developing contexts. …

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2019 Economics Students Regional Meeting – Brazil Southeast Region

Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Ouro Preto, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

The 2019 Economics Students Regional Meeting – Brazil Southeast Region (ERECO-SUDESTE 2019) is going to take place in the historical city of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais during November 14th - 16th. Its theme is going to be “Regional Development and Urban Planning”. It aims to rescue and reinforce the importance of discussions in the context …

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Women in the history of Latin American economics

Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) Curitiba, State of Paraná, Brazil

The History of Economic Thought and the Philosophy of Economics working groups are organising the Second pre-ALAHPE INET-YSI workshop. The workshop will take place at Universidade Federal do Paraná in Curitiba, Brasil, on November 19th, one day before the Conference of the Latin American Association for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE). The goal of …

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First Reading Session: Evolutionary Realism

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Here is the entire reading list with the dates : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GnBjE8cieZnLv6jujIn6BjDHMqqjkCQg We will start our first reading session with a paper on the Ontology of Economics on 20th of November at 20:00 CET. Paper: Dopfer, K. and Potts, J. (2004), ‘Evolutionary Realism: A New Ontology for Economics’, Journal of Economic Methodology, 11: 195–212Keywords of the …

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II FLORENCE ENERGY INNOVATION BOOTCAMP

Florence School of Regulation Via Giovanni Boccaccio, Firenze, Toscana, Italy

Event Format The Energy Innovation Academy is organized under the scientific supervision of the FSR Energy Innovation, headed by prof. Miguel Vazquez (George Washington University and Florence School of Regulation), with support from the coordinators from the YSI Complexity Economics Working Group (special event of the WG), in addition to the Sustainability and Latin America …

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Financialization and financial stability: new challenges for Latin America

Centro Cultural de la Cooperacion Floreal Gorini Avenida Corrientes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

This workshop discusses the special features of the financialization in the global south. In particular, the links between larger and deregulated global financial markets, financial stability and development. For this, some warm up questions will be: What are the main features of financialization in developing economies? How do we conceptualize the development of underdevelopment under …

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Perspectives on degrowth

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Elke Pirgmaier and Julia K. Steinberger, 2019, Roots, Riots, and Radical Change—A Road Less Travelled for Ecological Economics Elke Pirgmaier, 2017, The Neoclassical Trojan Horse of Steady-State Economics J. Mikael Malmaeus and Eva C. Alfredsson, 2017, Potential Consequences on the Economy of Low or No Growth - Short and Long Term Perspectives