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project Series Webinar series on Endogenous Money

Theories of Money and Credit with Sheila Dow

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Sheila Dow, University of StirlingDate: Thursday, June, 6thTime: 11AM (EDT time) - 5PM (CET time) – 4PM (UK time)The first session aims to provide a general introduction and understanding based on a historical review of the different strands of economics that are attached to endogenous money.Reference: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195390766.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780195390766-e-008Profile: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/256439http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=VCHIC71

project Series EMU, Quo Vadis? Interdisciplinary Reflections

The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union – Webinar Erik Jones

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The Finance, Law, and Economics working group is thrilled to announce a new webinar from this interdisciplinary series! We are glad to have Erik Jones on board with us, who will discuss a forthcoming book contribution entitled The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union. AbstractThe purpose of this chapter is to explain why so many …

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project Series Reading Group- Introductory Papers to Complexity Tools

Week 5: MODULE 3: Economic Evolution

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Readings: Friedman, Daniel. "On economic applications of evolutionary game theory." Journal of Evolutionary Economics 8.1 (1998): 15-43. Whitley, Darrell. “A Genetic Algorithm Tutorial.” (http://cobweb.cs.uga.edu/~potter/CompIntell/ga_tutorial.pdf) Discussion Questions: What is an evolutionary game, and what do you have to define to set one up? How are evolutionary games useful for studying economics? Genetic algorithms are very efficient …

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2019 HES-YSI workshop

Columbia University New York, New York, United States

The YSI History of Economic Thought working group together with HES will organize a creative writing workshop in New York on June 19, the day before the History of Economics Society annual conference. The workshop will be led by Tiago Mata, lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at UCL, and Paul Dudenhefer, staff specialist at …

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project Series Credit Booms Gone Bust

PDI Conference in NYC

PDI conference New York, New York, United States

Selected young scholars, based on participation in the webinar series, academic qualifications, diversity, etc. will be given a chance to attend the PDI conference in New York.

The Code of Capital: Book Talk Webinar with Katharina Pistor

Virtual Project Virtual Project

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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NY Workshop “Alternative futures for Capitalism”

INET' Office Park Avenue South, New York, New York, United States

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 WORKSHOP

YSI special event at Charles Gide Workshops 2019 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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 …

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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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