YSI @ ALTEC @ LALICSDeadline: June 30th 2019 The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI)’s Latin America and Complexity Economics Working Groups, in association with the XVIII Latin Iberoamerican Conference of the Association of Technological Management (ALTEC 2019) event and the Latin American Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems (LALICS) would like to …
Latin America has historically been a region where economic thinkers conceived theories that challenged status quo and the dominant theories developed in core countries. However, these ideas have mostly remained at the margin of our discipline, whose agenda and predominant approaches are still those developed in certain so called elite or prestigious institutions from core …
Workshop on development planning: Latin American insights and theories. Read More »
The Finance, Law, and Economics working group is glad to announce the second webinar from the "Social Europe" Webinar Series. After hosting our first session with Prof. Vandenbroucke, who set the basis for our discussion, we are pleased to have Prof. Waltraud Schelkle with us. Prof Schelkle will discuss how the risk-sharing mechanisms embedded in …
The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI)’s Latin America and Complexity Economics Working Groups, in association with the Latin American Network for Research on Services (REDLAS) would like to invite young scholars to submit their work to the Workshop YSI/REDLAS “Innovation and New Technologies in Moderning Services: Opportunities and challenges for Productivity in Latin America and Caribbean”. …
Daniel W. O’Neill et al., 2018, A good life for all within planetary boundaries Jason Hickel and Giorgos Kallis, 2019, Is Green Growth Possible? Jason Hickel, 2018, Is it possible to achieve a good life for all within planetary boundaries?
The deadline to submit papers and panel ideas is now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied! We have received a lot of interesting submissions. For those who applied to attend without presenting a paper, we hope to fit in as many people as possible. We are aiming for all responses to be sent out …
The organization of the Metropolitan Development Forum is part of the research 'The Metropolis and the Right to the City: knowledge, innovation and action for urban development' from the INCT 2015-2020 program (National Institute of Science and Technology, a brazilian governmental funding program to support research) 'Observatório das Metrópoles', and aims to promote the articulation …
II Metropolitan Development Forum of the RMBH: urban popular economy Read More »
John Mauro Perdomo (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) will present his research on the history of disequilibrium theory "Más allá de los micro-fundamentos: historia de las contribuciones seminales a la teoría del desequilibrio, 1962-1977."
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 …
Green New Deal and its place in the history of progressive economic policy Read More »
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. …
YSI Pre-conference “Financialization in Peripheral economies” Read More »
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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John Stuart Mill, 1848, Of the Stationary State Herman E. Daly, 1974, The Economics of the Steady State Brian Czech and Herman E. Daly, 2010, In My Opinion: The steady state economy—what it is, entails, and connotes
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 …
Women in the history of Latin American economics Read More »
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 …
Will Steffen et al., 2015, Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet Johan Rockström et al., 2009, A safe operating space for humanity Kenneth E. Boulding, 1966, The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth
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 …
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 …
Financialization and financial stability: new challenges for Latin America Read More »
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
Boris Salazar, professor of economics at Universidad del Valle, will present his paper "The Vanishing Impact of Hall 1978 on Consumption Modeling," (coauthored with Carlos García y Daniel Otero).
Economic Development in general has always been associated with the traditional theories of economic thought, which, between 1870 and 1930, and from 1970 until today have dominated scientific thought. With rare exceptions in particular countries, the analysis of economic development has not been separate from these roots. Even taking into account certain exceptions, such as, …
Economic Development and Income Distribution in Small Open Economies Read More »
