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project Series Reading Group- Introductory Papers to Complexity Tools

Week 6: MODULE 3: Economic evolution

Virtual Project Virtual Project

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" …

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Pre-conference workshop and WG panel at the 28th IAFFE Conference

Caledonian University Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

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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project Series “Regional Resilience: Towards an Evolutionary Approach” with Ron Boschma

“How Regions Can Re-invent Themselves ” with Pierre-Alexandre Balland

Virtual Project Virtual Project

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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YSI @ 16th Inter. Conf. Developments in Economic Theory and Policy – Bilbao

Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain

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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YSI @ AFEP-IIPPE International Conference 2019

IEP and University of Lille Lille, Hauts-de-France, France

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 …

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project Series Reading Group- Introductory Papers to Complexity Tools

Week 7: MODULE 4: Technology evolution

Virtual Project Virtual Project

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?

project Series “Regional Resilience: Towards an Evolutionary Approach” with Ron Boschma

“Propagation of Economic Shocks in Input-Output Networks” with M. Contreras

Virtual Project Virtual Project

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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School of Advanced Studies in the Reappraisal of the Surplus Approach

Department of Economics - Roma Tre University Via Silvio D'Amico, Roma, Lazio, Italy

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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project Series Credit Booms Gone Bust

Richard Vague – A Brief History of Doom

Virtual Project Virtual Project

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 …

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Innovation Policy and Real Estate

Hilton Nanhai Shekou Hotel Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

As the innovation takes place in the city and a number of academics and policy-makers have been seeing the cities as growth and innovation machines, innovation policy has a crucial spatial dimension and brings about strong implications for cities. Drawing on these relationships, this section aims to foster the debate on the impacts of innovation …

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YSI Pre-Olivera Conference for Young Scholars

University of Buenos Aires Avenida Córdoba, Balvanera, Buenos Aires, Argentina

"The future of capitalism: Latin American challenges." July 10th, 2019. Buenos Aires, Argentina 9 YSI Working Groups have joint efforts to invite young scholars from the region to join the pool of critically-minded economists gathering at the 2nd Olivera Conference.The main topic of this Pre-Conference will be: "Future of Capitalism: Latin America challenges". We will …

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project Series 2nd Summer academy ‘Law and Money, from Past to Future’

2nd YSI FLE Summer Academy – Law and Money: From Past to Future

University of Manchester Law School Manchester, England, United Kingdom

A particular set of ideas about law, money, and society dominated the last half century of global governance - in a nutshell, that the world was far too complex for coordinated democratic decision-making and should best be left to ‘the market’. This carried far reaching theoretical assumptions and policy implications: for instance, money is apolitical, …

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