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Cooperative Working Group 2025 Annual Mandate Meeting
2025-02-07 17:00 - 18:00 (Africa/Lagos) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/cooperative-working-group-2025-annual-mandate-meeting/
Dear colleagues,
I write to welcome you to year 2025.
Amongst others, it is an imperative to have an annual mandate meeting for our working group.
This affords an opportunity to draw a plan for work to be done for the year.
Such a work plan has become more relevant to 2025, a year that has been declared by the United Nations as an International Year of cooperatives.
Thank you.

Early Career Researchers Series
2025-02-06 18:30 - 19:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/early-career-researchers-series/2025-02-06/
Early Career Researchers Series, building on the success and intellectual foundation of our previous project, “Expanding the Frontier of Economics 1.0,” we are thrilled to announce the launch of a new webinar series.
Objective
The primary objective of this webinar series is to explore and expand the boundaries of economic thought, with a particular focus on the Global South. By doing so, we aim to foster a deeper understanding of various critical issues shaping our world today.
Key Themes
The webinar will cover a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

Health: Investigating the economic aspects of healthcare systems, public health policies, and the socio-economic determinants of health in developing countries.
Inequality: Exploring the root causes and consequences of economic inequality, focusing on income disparity, access to resources, and social mobility.
Social Protection: Evaluating social protection mechanisms, their effectiveness, and their role in reducing poverty and vulnerability in the Global South.
Climate Change: Analyzing the economic impacts of climate change, adaptation strategies, and sustainable development practices.
Decolonial Thoughts: Engaging with decolonial perspectives to understand and critique the legacy of colonialism in contemporary economic practices and theories.
Planning Issues: Addressing urban and rural planning challenges, infrastructure development, and policy-making processes that affect economic growth and development.
Labour and Development Economics: Examining labour market dynamics, informal employment, wage policies, and the role of labour in economic development, with a focus on structural transformation and inclusive growth.

Format
The webinar series will include monthly sessions featuring presentations by selected young scholars and early career researchers.
Each session will include:

Presentations: Short presentations of research findings (30-45 min)
Q&A Sessions: Opportunities for attendees to engage with the presenters. (15-20 min)

Webinar Topics:
Session 1: Transportation, employment and gender norms: Evidence from Indian cities
Dr Arun Balachandran, Post-doctoral Research Scientist at the Columbia Aging Center, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University in New York.
June 20, 2024, 6.30 PM Indian Standard Time

Exploring how labor market opportunity structure limit women’s labor market participation.
Analyzing the role of transport infrastructure in gender-gap in labour force participation and its variations by gender-norms across communities in urban India.
⁠India Human Development Survey and city-level data on transport infrastructure are used.
⁠The causal effects of differential employment status of women and men are analyzed against the size and quality of transport in Indian cities.
⁠Exploring the Interaction effects to understand varying impacts of transport on employment by gender-context in communities.

(Session 2: Cancelled & will be rescheduled on a future date, please be patient with us)
Session 2: Analysis of Returns to Education-Occupation Mismatch in Presence of Informality Evidence from Urban Labour market in India
September 27, 2024, 6.30 PM Indian Standard Time
Speaker: Dr. Ravikiran Naik, Assistant Professor – of Economics. FLAME University, India. He received his Doctorate Degree in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and has completed his master’s in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics-Pune. He was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore. Prof. Ravikiran has over nine years of work experience and was associated with the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), and Christ University- Lavasa. He is an applied economist by training and has a keen interest in the research areas involving Labor Economics, Informal employment and Entrepreneurship, Intergenerational economic mobility, and economics of education. He has published peer review articles in national & international journals. He has also co-authored a book titled ‘Women Entrepreneurs in The New Indian Middle Class: Macro & Micro Perspectives.
Abstract
This study examines the impact of education-occupation mismatch (EOM) on wages in India’s urban labor market, where informal employment is widespread. While it is generally accepted that higher education leads to higher earnings, concerns arise when the number of highly educated individuals outpaces the availability of jobs requiring their qualifications, potentially leading to credentialism rather than a more skilled workforce. Our research fills a gap in the existing literature by analyzing the combined effects of EOM and labor market informality on earnings. We estimate the returns to over-education, under-education, and adequate education across both formal and informal sectors. The findings indicate that returns to education are consistently lower in the informal sector compared to the formal sector. Workers with adequate education receive significantly higher returns in both sectors, while those with under-education suffer wage penalties regardless of their employment type. The returns to education also vary across the wage distribution: in the formal sector, adequate education yields higher returns in lower wage segments but decreases in the upper segments. Conversely, in the informal sector, returns increase steadily across the wage distribution, with the highest returns in the top decile, suggesting a convergence with the formal sector at the upper end. Additionally, returns to over-education rise along the wage distribution in both sectors, while returns to under-education remain consistently lower. These results hold across different econometric models and definitions of informality. The study underscores a significant wage penalty for workers in the informal sector who have invested in education, suggesting that policies aimed at reducing labor market informality could help mitigate EOM and decrease the associated earnings penalties.

Session 3: Women’s Time Use Patterns of Paid and Unpaid Work in India
November 7, 6.30 PM IST Indian Standard Time
Speaker: Dr. Vijayamba R, Assistant Professor – of Economics. NLSIU, India.
Vijayamba is a development economist interested in studying women’s work in the labour markets. She completed her postdoctoral stint at the Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, and was part of the research team behind the State of Working India (SWI) Report 2023, focusing on the role of social identities on labour market outcomes. Her PhD research focused on women’s role in the livestock economy, including their ownership of livestock assets, labour contribution, and decision-making in the livestock economy. She is currently awarded a Non-Resident Post-Doctoral fellowship by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)-National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) to explore measurement issues of women’s work using secondary data. Her research interests include women’s work, the utilization of time, decision-making, social norms, and issues of measurement. Her other interests include reading, travelling, and practising music.
Abstract
This talk presents estimates of women in economic activity using the Time Use Survey of India (TUS 2019). In India, the broad patterns of time use reveal that women engage in a predominant share of unpaid work leaving less time for employment and leisure. This paper asks if engagement in employment results in an offsetting reduction on unpaid work across different levels of education and types of employment. Identifying self-employment and wage employment from the International Classification of Activities for Time Use Statistics (ICATUS 2016), for women engaged in self-employment, there is a slight trade off with unpaid work. Whereas urban graduate women face an increased burden of unpaid work.

Session 4: Justice For All? The Impact of Legal Aid in India

February 6, 2025, 6.30 PM IST Indian Standard Time
Speaker: Dr. Nitin Kumar Bharti, Postdoctoral Associate, NYU Abu Dhabi
Nitin Bharti is a postdoctoral scholar in the Economics department of the New York University-Abu Dhabi. He received his Ph.D. from the Paris School of Economics and the University of Namur in 2022. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree from IIT-Kharagpur and has two years of experience working in the corporate sector. He is an applied micro-economist, and his research interests lie in understanding the development of educational systems and their linkage with economic growth and inequality. He is also interested in studying the long-term evolution of economic inequalities in the South Asia region.
Abstract
Barriers to justice perpetuate poverty and inequality. We study a large expansion of access to legal representation in India: the establishment of prison legal aid clinics. We collect the opening dates of 763 clinics and link them with data on 13 million criminal
cases and prison populations. Using a staggered difference-in-differences design, we find that defendants with access to legal aid are more likely to receive definitive judgements, favorable outcomes, and acquittals, with more cases dismissed early. This reform reduces prison populations, sparing 31,055 individuals annually and yielding a welfare gain of $7.60 for every dollar invested in legal aid.

Session 5: Role of informal economy in the process of economic development
March 11, 2025, 6.30 PM IST Indian Standard Time
Speaker: Surbhi Kesar, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London

Surbhi Kesar is a development and political economist, who currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Department of Economics at SOAS University of London. Her recent and ongoing work focusses on labour and informal economy and the reproduction of the structure of economic dualism in India with high economic growth, thereby critiquing the imaginary of development-as-capitalist-transition; relation between identities and social exclusion; political economy of crises; a critical engagement with the social reproduction theory; and approaches towards decolonising the field of economics. Her research is embedded in Marxian Political Economy and South-centric critical frameworks of economics.
Abstract
Despite a high economic growth experienced by the India, a vast majority of its workforce derives livelihoods from the informal economy. In this talk, we reflect on how different strands of literature – both mainstream and critical – have explained the persistence of the informal economy and what role it plays in the process of economic development. Using data from individual and firm level surveys, over the period of high growth, we assess various dynamics of India’s informal economy . We reflect on why India’s experience does not square with the dominant theories and posit an alternative framework, following the works of Kalyan Sanyal, that can help us make sense of the current reality. Building on it, we derive the research agenda on informal economy and post-colonial capitalist development and posit the questions that need answering.

YSI @ Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) Inaugural Conference
2025-02-05 - 2025-02-08 | Center for Heterodox Economics, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States
Join us for the inauguration of the new Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The CHE focuses on exploring revolutionary ideas that advance heterodox economics and challenge mainstream economic thinking. This inaugural conference will gather leading scholars, organisers, and students to delve into the study of capitalism with its pressing global issues. Speakers include: Clara Mattei, James Galbraith and Branko Milanovic among others.
The Center focuses on three main guiding themes:

Critical Political Economy– advancing the study of capitalism as a class-based society by focusing on its structural features and distributional outcomes.

Critical History of Capitalism and Economic Thought— fostering approaches to the history of our economic system and the evolution of our discipline that enrich the current debate with innovative conceptual frameworks, offering guidance for contemporary challenges.

Praxis— Theory becomes bourgeois abstraction if not informed by concrete struggles, while collective action is strengthened by revolutionary theory. Therefore, the CHE recognizes the contributions of organizers and the tangible material struggles of citizens as integral to economic theory. We also aim to create an environment that promotes mutual learning and collaboration among scholars, organizers, and citizens at large.

We invite applications from graduate students interested in exploring the question: How does your work embody heterodoxy? to present their work at the YSI @ CHE Pre-Conference workshop. We particularly encourage submissions that engage with one or more of the three outlined themes.
Format: The YSI @CHE Pre-Conference workshop will take place on 5 February 2025, where the selected participants will present their work and receive feedback during the morning sessions, this will be followed by a workshop on heterodoxy with senior scholars in the afternoon. Thereafter, from 6 February – 8 February the selected participants will attend the main conference, the program for the main conference can be found here.
Funding: Partial travel stipends and shared accommodation will be provided for the selected participants for the duration of the pre-conference and main conference from 5 February – 8 February.
How to Apply: Submit a 200 word abstract and your curriculum vitae by 28 November 2024.
For more information contact: christina@youngscholarsinitiative.org

LPFMI: EU banks’ access to UK clearing houses - understanding the undercurrents with Godfried de Vidts
2025-02-04 16:00 - 16:45 (Europe/Berlin) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/lpfmi-eu-banks-access-to-uk-clearing-houses-understanding-the-undercurrents-with-godfried-de-vidts/
Ever since the Brexit vote 2016, the EU has sought to redirect euro-denominated derivatives clearing by EU banks to clearing houses in the EU for mostly financial stability reasons.
On Wed. 22. Jan. 2025 the European Commision has proposed to extend euro-denominated derivatives clearing by EU banks at UK derivatives clearing houses for another three years.
Join us to understand the proposal and its undercurrents in a conversation with Godfried de Vidts, ICMA and former LPFMI contributor at Apr. 2023 online and Jun. 2023 Frankfurt workshop.

Money View Reading Group
2025-02-04 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/money-view-reading-group/2025-02-04/
The Money View Reading Group reads and discusses writings on money, banking, and finance. We are a self-directed group. Anyone interested in money and banking can read the readings, join us for discussions, or suggest future readings.
We meet for 90 minutes via Zoom on Tuesdays at 2 pm Eastern Time US (New York).

Current Book

Treatise on Money by Joseph Schumpeter (1970/2014)

From the description:
The Treatise on Money provides the key to understanding Schumpeter’s system. It shows that Schumpeter’s famous emphasis on ‘creative destruction’ is a more complex phenomenon than is popularly understood. In particular, it provides an understanding of the workings of money, banking, and the money and capital markets, that are supremely relevant in the light of current monetary and fiscal policy crises.

2026-01-12 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–3) (Recording)

Upcoming Sessions

2026-01-20 — 2:00pm EST

During the off week, we discuss Charles Kindleberger’s 1980 lecture on Gresham’s Law as it appears in his 1989 book Economic Laws and Economic History and his 2000 collection Political Economy: A Retrospective.
From the introduction:
I want … to widen the scope of Gresham’s law first to two monies, and then beyond it to discuss market instability, whether for different monies, as in bimetallism, for notes and coins, two centralbank reserve assets, and the like, to two different sorts of assets more generally, and especially to money on the one hand, and real or other types of financial assets on the other. Gresham’s law thus extended is a highly useful analytical model for the economic historian to keep in his toolbox.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/economic-laws-and-economic-history/greshams-law/F10DDDA78EEEC922C27BD7FBF5218695
https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/3264/chapter-abstract/99960/Gresham-s-Law
Buy: https://www.amazon.com/Comparative-Political-Economy-Charles-Kindleberger/dp/0262515377/
Read: https://archive.org/details/economiclawsecon0000kind

2026-01-27 — 2:00pm EST

We discuss Chapters 4–7 of Schumpeter’s Treatise on Money.

Chapter IV The Economic Account in the Socialist Commonwealth

A Simple Model
Adding Consumer Goods to the Mix
Adding Cost Factors to the Mix

The Problem of Capital Accounting

The Common Denominator of Capitalism and Socialism

Chapter V The Capitalist Economic Process

The Circular Flow
The Production Process in the Circular Flow
Stretching the Boundaries of the Model
Development as the Driving Force of Business Cycles
External Disturbances

Chapter VI The Vehicles of the Social Accounting Process: The Household and the Firm

The Economy-Wide Ledger
The Current Account as the Basic Concept of Monetary Doctrine
The Household as Alpha and Omega of the Economic Process

Household income
Household expenses

When Income Does Not Match Expenditure

Households
Firms

Chapter VII The Vehicles of the Social Accounting Process: The Banks and the Central Bank

Bank Income and Expenditure
The Bank Balance Sheet
Bank Association and the Central Bank
The Central Bank and Monetary Policy
Points of Controversy

2026-02-10 — 2:00pm EST

We discuss Chapters 8–10 of Schumpeter’s Treatise on Money.

Chapter VIII Bank-Mediated Money Creation

Reactive Bank Policy
Active Bank Policy
The Unique Way Banks Go About Their Business
How Banks “Multiply” Money
The Limits to Banks’ Expansion of Credit
Quantifying Credit Expansion

Created Deposits Versus Circulating Deposits
Checking Deposits Versus Investment Deposits

The Effect of the Two-Tiered Banking System
Can This Be Captured Statistically?

Chapter IX The Essence of Money

How Payment Really Works
Legal Tender and Real Payment
Commodity Money as One Means of Payment Among Many
The Economic Process Yields Only Relative Prices
Absolute Prices and the Critical Number
The Paper Money Method
The Commodity Money Method
Commodity Money and the Inversion of Meaning
The Money Tie and Credit Expansion

Chapter X Consequences

The Velocity of Circulation of Money
Refining the Concept
The Components of the Concept

Determinants of Frequency
Disposition

2026-02-24 — 2:00pm EST

We discuss Chapters 11–12 of Schumpeter’s Treatise on Money.

Chapter XI The Theory of the Price Level

The Theory of the Price Index
Problems Attaching to the Price Index
Isolating the Measurable Core Component
How to Measure this Core Component
Modeling the Index
Further Criteria

Chapter XII The Theory of the Money Process and of the Functions of the Money Market

The Equation of Exchange
The Money Process in the Stationary Economy
The Money Process in More Complex Situations

Intermediate Goods
Effect of Auxiliary Funds
Durable Goods
External Disturbances

The Effect of Development

Credit Creation the Driver of Development

The Money Process in Cyclical Downturn
The Money Process in Crisis Situations
Saving and Interest in the Money Process

The Origin of Interest
Saving as Response to Interest
Forms of Saving

The Short-Term Character of Capitalist Finance
The Money Market

Exchange of Present for Future Balances
The Primacy of Created Deposits
The Character of Demand
The Character of Supply
The Interest Rate as Barometer?

The Money Market as Heart of the Capitalist Economy

Future Suggested Readings

How a Ledger Became a Central Bank: A Monetary History of the Bank of Amsterdam by Quinn and Roberds (2023)
Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters by Leah Downey (2025)
The History of Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams (2025)
After the Accord by Kenneth D. Garbade (2021)
A Study of Money Flows in the United States by Morris Copeland (1952)
A History of the Greenbacks by Wesley Clair Mitchell (1903)
Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825 by Charles Read (2023)
Benjamin Strong: Central Banker by Lester V. Chandler (1958)
An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets by Donald MacKenzie (2007)
Currency and Credit (4e) by Ralph Hawtrey (1950)
The Golden Age of the Quantity Theory by David Laidler (1991)
Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance by Greta Krippner (2011)
The Federal Reserve System by Paul Warburg (1930)
Central Bank Capitalism: Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis by Joscha Wullweber (2024)
Introduction to Central Banking by Ulrich Bindseil and Alessio Fota (2021)
The Chairman: John J. McCloy & The Making of the American Establishment by Kai Bird (1992)
Manias, Panics, and Crashes (8e) by Robert McCauley (2023)
The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People by Martijn Konings (2025)

Past Readings with Discussion Recordings

Minsky by Daniel H. Neilson (2019)
2021-03-24 — Discussion Session 1
2021-03-31 — Discussion Session 2
2021-04-07 — Discussion with Daniel Neilson
The Art of Central Banking (Chapter IV) by Ralph Hawtrey (1933)
2021-04-21 — Discussion Session 1
2021-05-05 — Discussion Session 2
2021-05-26 — Discussion with David Glasner
Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism by Christine Desan (2014)
2021-06-02 — Discussion Session 1
2021-06-16 — Discussion Session 2
2021-06-30 — Discussion Session 3
2021-07-14 — Discussion with Christine Desan
Money in a Theory of Finance by John G. Gurley, Edward S. Shaw (1960)
2021-07-21 — Discussion Session 1
2021-08-04 — Discussion Session 2
2021-08-18 — Discussion Session 3
The World in Depression, 1929-1939 by Charles P. Kindleberger (1973)
2021-09-01 — Discussion Session 1
2021-09-15 — Discussion Session 2
2021-09-29 — Discussion Session 3
The Rise of Carry by Jamie Lee et al (2019)
2021-10-13 — Discussion Session 1
2021-10-27 — Discussion Session 2
The Money Interest and the Public Interest by Perry Mehrling (1998)
2021-11-10 — Discussion Session 1 | Allyn Young
2021-11-24 — Discussion Session 2 | Alvin Hanson
2021-12-08 — Discussion Session 3 | Edward Shaw
Controlling Credit by Eric Monnet (2018)
2022-01-05 — Discussion Session 1
2022-01-19 — Discussion Session 2
The Menace of Fiscal QE by George Selgin (2020)
2022-02-02 — Discussion Session
The New Lombard Street by Perry Mehrling (2011)
2022-02-23 — Discussion Session 1
2022-03-09 — Discussion Session 2
2022-03-23 — Discussion Session 3
Fighting Financial Crises: Learning from the Past by Gary Gorton, Ellis Tallman (2021)
2022-04-20 — Discussion Session 1
2022-05-11 — Discussion Session 2
Money and empire: The international gold standard, 1890-1914 by Marcello De Cecco (1974)
2022-05-25 — Discussion Session 1
2022-06-15 — Discussion Session 2
Central Bank Cooperation 1924-31 by Stephen Clarke (1967)
2022-06-22 — Discussion Session 1
2022-07-06 — Discussion Session 2
The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation by Morgan Ricks (2016)
2022-07-27 — Discussion Session 1
2022-08-10 — Discussion Session 2
2022-08-17 — Discussion with Morgan Ricks
The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History by Stefano Ugolini (2017)
2022-08-24 — Discussion Session 1
2022-09-07 — Discussion Session 2
2022-09-21 — Discussion Session 3
2022-10-05 — Discussion with Stefano Ugolini
A Financial History of Western Europe by Charles P. Kindleberger (1984, 1993)
2022-10-19 — Discussion Session 1 | Part 1: Money
2022-11-02 — Discussion Session 2 | Part 2: Banking
2022-11-16 — Discussion Session 3 | Part 3: Finance
2023-01-11 — Discussion Session 4 | Part 4: The Interwar Period
2023-01-18 — Discussion Session 5 | Part 5: After World War II
Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System by Perry Mehrling (2022)
2022-11-30 — Discussion Session 1 | Part 1: Intellectual Formation, 1910–1948
2022-12-14 — Discussion Session 2 | Part 2: International Economist, 1948–1976
2022-12-21 — Discussion Session 3 | Part 3: Historical Economist, 1976–2003
2022-12-21 — Discussion #1 with Perry Mehrling
2023-01-04 — Discussion #2 with Perry Mehrling
Bonds without Borders: A History of the Eurobond Market by Chris O’Malley (2015)
2023-02-15 — Discussion Session 1
2023-03-01 — Discussion Session 2
Monetary Policy Operations and the Financial System by Ulrich Bindseil (2014)
2023-03-15 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1-8)
2023-03-29 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 9-12)
2023-04-12 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 13-18)
Capital Wars: The Rise of Global Liquidity by Michael J. Howell (2020)
2023-04-26 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1-7)
2023-05-10 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 8-14)
A Market Theory of Money by John Hicks (1989)
2023-05-24 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1-7)
2023-06-07 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 8-15)
The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes by Stefan Eich (2022)
2023-06-28 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1 & 2)
2023-07-19 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 3 & 4)
2023-08-02 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 5 & 6)
2023-08-14 — Discussion with Stefan Eich
Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance by Perry Mehrling (2005)
2023-08-22 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–5)
2023-09-05 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 6–8)
2023-09-19 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 9–11)
2023-09-26 — Discussion with Perry Mehrling
The Evolution of Central Banks by Charles Goodhart (1988)
2023-10-03 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–6)
2023-10-17 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 7–8, Appendix)
The Repo Market: Shorts, Shortages, and Squeezes by Scott Skyrm (2023)
2023-11-07 — Discussion Session 1 (pages 1–92)
2023-11-21 — Discussion Session 2 (pages 93–186)
2023-12-05 — Discussion Session 3 (pages 187–310) Part 1 — Part 2
2023-12-12 — Discussion with Scott Skyrm From 39:20
The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse by Michael Pettis (2001)
2023-12-19 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–5)
2024-01-02 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 6–10)
2024-01-09 — Discussion with Michael Pettis
International Capital Movements by Charles P. Kindleberger (1987)
2024-01-16 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1 & 2)
2024-01-30 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 3 & 4)
A Political Theory of Money by Anush Kapadia (2024)
2024-02-20 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–4)
2024-03-05 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 5–7)
2024-03-19 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 8–12)
2024-03-26 — Discussion with Anush Kapadia
The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism by Leon Wansleben (2023)
2024-04-02 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–3)
2024-04-23 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 4–6)
2024-05-07 — Discussion with Leon Wansleben
The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy by Scott Sumner (2021)
2024-05-14 — Discussion Session 1 (Parts 1 & 2)
2024-05-28 — Discussion Session 2 (Parts 3 & 4)
2024-06-18 — Discussion Session 3 (Parts 5 & 6)
2024-06-25 — Discussion with Scott Sumner
Private Money and Public Currencies: The Sixteenth Century Challenge: The Sixteenth Century Challenge by Boyer-Xambeu, Deleplace, and Gillard (1994)
2024-07-02 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–3)
2024-07-16 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 4 & 5)
2024-07-30 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 6, 7 & Conclusion)
The Arena of International Finance by Charles A. Coombs (1976)
2024-08-13 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1ー6)
2024-08-27 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 7–12)
The Bill on London: or The Finance of Trade by Bills of Exchange by Gillett Brothers (1952/1976)
2024-09-17 — Discussion Session
Birth of a Market: The U.S. Treasury Securities Market from the Great War to the Great Depression by Kenneth D. Garbade (2012)
2024-10-01 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–10)
2024-10-15 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 11–15)
2024-10-29 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 16–24)
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 by Alan S. Blinder (2022)
2024-11-12 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–7)
2024-11-26 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 8–13)
2024-12-10 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 14–19)
Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform by Yakov Feygin (2024)
2025-01-07 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–3)
2025-01-21 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 4–6)
2025-02-04 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 7 & Afterword)
A Crash Course on Crises: Macroeconomic Concepts for Run-Ups, Collapses, and Recoveries by Markus K. Brunnermeier and Ricardo Reis (2023)
2025-02-25 — Discussion Session 1 (Parts 1 and 2)
2025-03-11 — Discussion Session 2 (Parts 3 and 4)
The Empire of Value: A New Foundation for Economics by Andre Orlean (2014)
2025-03-25 — Discussion Session 1 (Introduction and Part 1) Part 1 — Part 2
2025-04-08 — Discussion Session 2 (Parts 2 and 3)
2025-04-22 — Discussion Session 3 (Part 4 and Conclusion)
The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel (1979/1982)
2025-05-06 — Discussion Session 1 (Chapter 1)
2025-05-13 — Discussion Session 2 (Chapter 2)
2025-05-20 — Discussion Session 3 (Chapter 3)
2025-05-27 — Discussion Session 4 (Chapter 4)
2025-06-03 — Discussion Session 5 (Chapter 5)
Beyond Banks: Technology, Regulation, and the Future of Money by Dan Awrey (2024)
2025-06-17 — Discussion Session 1 (Intro & Ch 1–3)
2025-07-01 — Discussion Session 5 (Ch 4–7 & Conclusion)
2025-07-08 — Author Discussion with Dan Awrey
Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance by Kenneth Rogoff (2025)
2025-08-19— Discussion Session 1 (Parts 1-3)
2025-08-26 — Discussion Session 2 (Parts 4-6)
Central Banking Before 1800: A Rehabilitation by Ulrich Bindseil (2019)
2025-09-01 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1&2)
2025-09-15 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 3–5)
2025-09-29 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 6&7)
2025-10-13 — Author Discussion with Ulrich Bindseil
The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times by Giovanni Arrighi (2010)
2025-10-20 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1&2)
2025-11-03 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 3)
2025-11-10 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 4)
Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen Haber (2014)
2025-11-17 — Discussion Session 1 (Ch 1–5)
2025-12-01 — Discussion Session 2 (Ch 6-9)
2025-12-15 — Discussion Session 3 (Ch 10–15)
2026-01-05 — Discussion w/ Charles Calomiris

Off-Week Sessions

2021-05-19 BIS Working Paper: Breaking free of the triple coincidence in international finance (2015)
2021-07-07 Global Domain of the Dollar: 8 Questions by Robert McCauley Author Discussion
2021-07-28 BIS and Bank of England reports on Central Bank Digital Currencies
2022-09-28 The Crypto Banking System by Sébastien Derivaux (2022) Author Discussion
2023-04-05 Discussion of Silicon Valley Bank
2023-04-19 Institutional Cash Pools by Zoltan Pozsar (2011)
2023-05-03 BIS Bulletin #73: Stablecoins vs. Tokenized Deposits (May 3, 2023)
2023-07-05 The Credit–Money Hierarchy: a Republican , Egalitarian Appraisal by Aaron James (2023)
2023-07-26 Public Purpose Finance: The Government’s Role as Lender by Nadav Orian Peer (2020) Author Discussion 2023-10-24 Money and the Public Debt by Lev Menand and Joshua Younger (2023) | 1
2023-10-31 Money and the Public Debt by Lev Menand and Joshua Younger (2023) | 2
2023-11-14 ICMA Repo FAQ by Richard Comotto (2013/2019)
2023-11-28 Basis Trades and Treasury Market Illiquidity by Daniel Barth & Jay Kahn (2020)
2024-01-23 Capital flows and the current account by Borio and Disyatat (2015)
2024-02-13 The dual currency system of Renaissance Europe by Luca Fantacci (2008)
2024-02-27 BIS: Buy now, pay later: a cross-country analysis by Cornelli et al. (2023)
2024-03-12 The non-use of money in the Middle Ages by Bell, Brooks, and Moore (2017)
2024-04-09 The Central Role of Credit Crunches in Recent Financial History by Albert M. Wojnilower (1980)
2024-04-16 Measuring Equilibrium in the Balance of Payments by Charles P. Kindleberger (1969)
2024-04-30 The Rise and Risks of Private Credit — GFSR (April, 2024)
2024-06-04 BIS Working Paper No 1100: Getting up from the floor by Claudio Borio (May, 2023)
2024-06-11 The Offshore Dollar and US Policy by Robert McCauley (May, 2024)
2024-07-09 The (impossible) repo trinity: the political economy of repo markets by Daniela Gabor (2016)
2024-08-07 A Safe Haven for Hidden Risks (May 30, 2024) and Rate Transformation (November 4, 2023) by Elham Saeidinezhad
2024-08-20 The Collateral Supply Effect on Central Bank Policy by Carolyn Sissoko (2020)
2024-09-10 Monetary Policy Implications of Market Maker of Last Resort Operations by Anil K Kashyap (August 23, 2024)
2024-11-05 BIS Bulletin No 90: The market turbulence and carry trade unwind of August 2024 (August 27, 2024)
2024-11-19 Yen Carry Trade and the Subprime Crisis by Masazumi Hattori and Hyun Song Shin (2009)
2024-12-03 After the Allocation: What Role for the Special Drawing Rights System? by Pforr, Pape, and Murau (2022)
2025-01-14 Where Profits Come From by the Levy Forecasting Center by Levy, Farnham, & Rajan (2008/1997)
2025-01-28 The Broad Consequences of Narrow Banking by Matheus R. Grasseli and Alexander Lipton (2019)
2025-02-11 Failing Banks by Sergio Correia, Stephen Luck, and Emil Verner (2024)
2025-02-18 Odd Lots — The Hidden History of Eurodollars by Lev Menand and Joshua Younger (January 2025)
2025-03-04 Of Last Resort: Evaluating the Treasury-Equity Model of Federal Reserve Emergency Lending by Steven Kelly (2024)
2025-03-18 Commercial Banking and Capital Formation I–IV by Harold Moulton (1918)
2025-04-01 Climate Alignment For Banks: The Stories That Numbers Tell by Nadav Orian Peer (2025) Author Discussion
2025-04-15 Shadow Banking: Why Modern Money Markets are Less Stable Than 19th c. Money Markets But Shouldn’t Be Stabilized by a ‘Dealer of Last Resort’ by Carolyn Sissoko (2014)
2025-04-29 Treasury Market and the Basis Trade (Adrian et al. 2025; Kashyap et al. 2025)
2025-06-10 Structural Changes in the Global Financial System lecture by Hyun Song Shin (May 19, 2025)
2025-06-24 International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order by John Gerard Ruggie (1982)
2025-07-15 BIS Annual Report Chapter: Financial conditions in a changing global financial system (2025)
2025-07-22 Banks Are Intermediaries of Loanable Funds by George Selgin (2024)
2025-07-29 Theorising non-bank financial intermediation by Jo Michell (2024)
2025-08-05 Banks are different: why bank-based versus market-based lending is a false dichotomy by Carolyn Sissoko (2024)
2025-09-08 Did France Cause the Great Depression? by Douglas A. Irwin (2010)
2025-09-22 Rethinking Monetary Sovereignty: The Global Credit Money System and the State by Murau and van’t Klooster (2023)
2025-10-06 Rethinking currency internationalisation: offshore money creation and the EU’s monetary governance by Murau and van’t Klooster (2025)
2025-10-27 BIS Bulletin No 114: “Financial channel implications of a weaker dollar for emerging market economies” by Juselius, Wooldridge and Xia (October 13, 2025)
2025-11-24 Bubble or Nothing: Data Center Project Finance by Advait Arun (November 12, 2025)
2025-12-08 Discussion of Debate over Whether Money Multiplier Requires Cash Lending

PreCOP30 YSI ECOECO workshops – Traveling Schools of Climate Justice
2025-02-03 16:00 - 2025-02-08 17:00 (America/New_York) | Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, 68040-255, Brazil
In 2025, the ECOECO Traveling Schools of Climate Justice is being planned under the theme of “Creating collective futures to face the climate crisis”, to be held in Santarém, Pará, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. Additionally, in the same year, Brazil is hosting the United Nations U.N. Climate Change Conference – COP 30, in the city of Belem, state of Pará. The Travelling schools aims to bring the focus to the Amazon region, and to the climate justice agenda. This project aims to be a PRE-COP30 event where both the program and the workshops proposed will foster the discussion around climate change policies and their impacts on ecosystems and people.
The Amazon is characterized as much by its great biological diversity and importance for climate regulation, as by its great cultural and social diversity. A prosperous economy for the region must be based on valuing biodiversity and recognizing the traditions of local populations, whose ways of life are based on a harmonious relationship with nature. The Brazilian Amazon, a global hotspot of tropical forests and biocultural biodiversity, is experiencing a serious climate crisis, while at the same time it is a crucial place for mitigating climate change. Deforestation is the main source of greenhouse gases in Brazil.
Furthermore, the fate of the Amazon basin has important implications, from the livelihoods of local communities to global geochemical cycles and rainfall regimes. The actions of youth movements in the Amazon region are focused on the defence of their collective territories and developing alternative economic activities to mining and large-scale monocrops.
The current challenge for young people is navigating the consequences of past decisions on climate change, compounded by their limited influence on political and corporate decisions. The Travelling Schools seeks to contribute to the debate on the paths and challenges for creating collective futures to face the climate crisis, while empowering young scholars and members of youth organizations to tackle the urgent challenges posed by the climate crisis.
However, a significant hurdle for these movements is determining which knowledge to mobilize for collective action against climate change and fostering engagement across different organizational levels and geographical scales. This project aims to bridge gaps between knowledge generation, actions and decision-making among youth climate leaders and researchers, in different parts of the world.
Participants will hail from diverse backgrounds, bringing to the planned immersive learning activities their varied climate experiences and knowledge, be it from facing floods, droughts, energy-related infrastructure development, mining projects, or engaging in stewardship and mobilization efforts. Specifically, the project targets young scholars and youth movements working and/or doing research on defending collective territories, safeguarding nature, traditional livelihoods, and socio-environmental commons.
The first Traveling School will happen between February 3rd to the 8th in Santarém (Pará), and the activity will consist of a 2-hour workshop series divided in five days. In the first session the YSI organizers will present YSI, the Sustainability Working Group and what are the expectations regarding future collaborations. The following workshops will be to discuss projects in the subject of Ecological Economics with up to 5 young scholars selected through an YSI-led call for a project idea – the accepted scholars will be supported with travel stipends and a waiver of the Travelling School fee given by the ECOECO organization.
We welcome projects coming from research, activism, collectives of young scholars. They are expected to discuss the projects submitted during the selection process. The senior scholar supported by YSI will work as a mentor during this activity.
To apply and for more information please go to: https://2025feb.schoolboat.isecoeco.org/

Working Group Mandate And Projects Brainstorming
2025-01-31 15:00 - 16:00 (Africa/Lagos) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/working-group-mandate-and-projects-brainstorming-2/
Welcome to the new year, 2025! And thank you for participating in 2024! We truly appreciate your efforts and commitment.
To begin the year on a high, we are calling on all members and organizers to plan and co-create the year with us.

Early Career Researchers Series
2025-01-30 18:30 - 19:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/early-career-researchers-series/2025-01-30/

Money and Finance Reading Group
2025-01-30 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Paris) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/money-and-finance-reading-group/2025-01-30/
This reading group has been created to amplify and deep our knowledge on money and finance from a wide perspective that can embrace the complexity of money’s nature, thus, the complexity of the financial system and its dynamics. Moreover, as it was cleverly unveiled by Émile Zola in his book L’Argent, the first book discussed in this reading group, money and finance are rooted in every sphere of human beings (social, political, religious, personal, etc.), therefore, their inquiring and comprehension cannot neglect this this reality.
The reading group started with an initial selection of books proposed by Professor Jan Toporowski, however, the path we will walk together will be opened and determined by the interests and tastes of the group members.
List of Readings:
Zola Émile, L’Argent, 1891 Discussed
Schumpeter, J.A.S. History of Economic Analysis, Chapter 8 on ‘Money, Credit and Cycles’. This chapter will be divided in two sessions. The first session will be on 25/01/24 and include sections 1 – 5 (From page 1040 to page 1074), the second will be on 29/02/2024 and include sections 6 – 9 (From page 1074 to page 1101). Discussed
Discussion of Schumpeter’s Chapter with the contribution of Professor Jan Toporowski. Discussed
Chick, V. ‘The Evolution of the Banking System and the Theory of Saving, Investment and Interest’ Économies et Sociétés Série MP no. 3 1986 and Arestis and Dow (eds.) On Money, Method and Keynes, Selected Essays of Victoria Chick 1992. Discussed on 11/04/2024
For the last session on Chick’s Paper we will have Sheila Dow. Discussed on 3 May 2023.
Toporowski, J. Interest and Capital The Monetary Economics of Michał Kalecki Oxford 2022, Part 1. Discussed on 30/05/2024
Toporowski, J. Interest and Capital The Monetary Economics of Michał Kalecki Oxford 2022. Discussed on 05/07/2024

Toporowski, J. ‘Marx’s Critical Notes on the Classical Theory of Interest’ in J. Dellheim and F.O. Wolf (eds.) The Unfinished System of Karl Marx Critically Reading Capital as a Challenge to our Times London: Palgrave Macmillan 2018. Discussed on 01/08/2024

Marx, K.H. Grundrisse Chapter 1, on Money . Discussed on Discussed on 24/10/2024
Paper presentation ““Kalecki-Levy Profit Equation and Money View Angles on Chinese Economy and Markets”, by Shengbei Guo, on 21/11/2024.

Marx, K.H. Capital Volume II Part 1, Ch 1 and 2, will be discussed on 26/12/2024.

Marx, K.H. Capital Volume II Part 1, Ch 3 to 6, discussed on 30/01/2025.
On Marx’s monetary theory talk given by Riccardo Bellofiore, retired Professor of Economics at the University of Bergamo, Italy, who has authored and co-authored “Theory of Plus-Value”, “Marx on Money”, “Production, Circulation and Money”, within others. Discussed on 06/03/2025.
Bellofiore, R., ‘The monetary aspects of the capitalist process in the Marxian system: an investigation from the point of view of the theory of the monetary circuit’ in Marx’s Theory of Money: Modern Appraisals 2005. Discussed on 27/03/2025
Bellofiore, R. ‘Money and development in Schumpeter’ 1985. Discussed on 24/04/2025

Talk with Riccardo Bellofiore about the monetary theories of Marx, the Theory of the Monetary Circuit, Schumpeter and a bit of Wicksell. To be discussed on 29/05/2025
Hayek, F.A. Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle 1929 Ch 1 and 2. Discussed on 26/06/2025
Hayek, F.A. Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle 1929 Ch 3, 4 and 5. Discussed on 24/07/2025
Hawtrey, R. G. Good and Bad Trade or Currency and Credit 1919. From Ch 1 to 7, inclusive. To be discussed on 04/09/2025
Hawtrey, R. G. Currency and Credit 1930. Ch 3 and 4. To be discussed on 25/09/2025
Hawtrey, R. G. Currency and Credit 1930. Ch 5, 6, 7 and 8. To be discussed on 30/10/2025
Hawtrey, R. G. Currency and Credit 1930. Ch 9, 10, 11. To be discussed on 04/12/2025
Wicksell, K. Interest and Prices 1936, Introduction by Bertil Ohlin, Preface and Introduction

WINTER SCHOOL PRE-CONFERENCE @8TH ANNUAL POLITICAL ECONOMY MEETING
2025-01-30 09:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Lisbon) | Dr. Dias da Silva, Coimbra, Coimbra, 3004-512, Portugal
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF A WORLD IN CRISIS
In a scenario marked by multiple and interconnected crises, which manifest at different spatial and temporal scales, the Portuguese Association of Political Economy invites and calls upon master’s and PhD students to reflect on the theoretical and practical challenges of building a just life.
After the End of History and the dominance of various forms of neoliberalism, contemporary society has been shaped by a social, political, and economic context that can only be described as one of polycrisis. The new millennium brought the Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 and the subsequent prolonged period of stagnation, fought against yet simultaneously exacerbated by austerity policies. The transition between the second and third decades of the millennium has been marked by a new global pandemic, new armed conflicts were added to others long ignored, political and economic threats to old and young democracies, profound climate changes, and the erosion of welfare regimes. In this scenario, it becomes inevitable that pessimism, grim forecasts, and demagogic political solutions set the tone for public debate and influence various segments of civil society. However, alongside these dynamics, new proposals for social organisation and political arrangements are also emerging, which, in the face of multifaceted challenges, insist on envisioning and reaffirming the possibilities of a dignified and just life. It falls upon all of us to engage in critical reflection on the origins of our discontent and its potential solutions – both in the political sphere and civil society, but also, and most importantly, in academia, which is currently under continuous attack.
Thus, the Winter School invites master’s and PhD students to share their research and contributions, reaffirming the role of academia in identifying and characterising the crises we are living through, but also in building responses and new possibilities for a fairer future. Master’s and PhD projects will be accepted in the broad field of Social Sciences (Anthropology, Political Science, Economics, Political Economy, Geography, Sociology), and related areas. Experts in the key topics will participate in the discussion of these projects.
Winter School Pre-Conference Schedule

09h00-09h30
Reception and Registration

09h30-11h00
Opening Session
Deconstructing Financialisation for a Just Life: Challenges and Alternatives

11h30-13h00
Lecture
Reimagining the Welfare Regime in an Era of Policrisis: Future Perspectives on Social Protection

13h00-14h30
Lunch

14h30-17h30
PhD Projects Sessions

18h00-19h30
Roundtable of Associations
The Future of Teaching and Research in Economics Across Various Regions
Associação Portuguesa de Economia Política (EcPol)
Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Política (SEP)
Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE)
Asociación de Economía Crítica (AEC)
Young Scholar Initiative (YSI)

For more details about the 8th Annual Meeting of Political Economy schedule, please visit the conference website at https://www.economiapolitica.pt/encontro-2025?lang=en
Submission of Proposals​
We welcome proposals on the following topics, among others:

Theories of value and social justice
Welfare state and fundamental systems of provision
Political economy of care
Workplace democracy and democratic planning
Social economy, solidarity economy and other economies
Political ecology: degrowth, climate justice, more-than-human economy
Deglobalisation, protectionism and geopolitics
Industrial policies and structural change
Financialization and rentism
Technological change and its normative implications.
Political economy of the media
Property regimes, labour relations and distributive justice
Trade unionism, cooperativism and social movements
Political economy, peripheries and coloniality
Political economy, freedom, equality and happiness
History and theories of political economy
Methodological pluralism and teaching pedagogy

Proposals must be submitted in the language of the communications, with the option of Portuguese, Spanish or English.
Communications relating to doctoral thesis projects should be presented at the Winter School Pre-Conference.
For more details on submissions for the 8th Annual Political Economy Meeting, please visit the conference website.
Proposals must contain the following information:

Title;
Name, institutional affiliation and e-mail address of the proposer(s);
Abstract (max. 400 words) and 4 keywords.

Important Dates​:
October 31, 2024: Deadline for submitting proposals
November 20, 2024: Notification of acceptance of proposals
December 15, 2024: Registration for the Winter School and the Annual Meeting
Registration Fees:
Students: Until December 15, 2024: 20 euros
For other types of registration fees, please visit the conference website.
This fee includes participation in the entire event, the Winter School pre-conference and the Annual Meeting, and the dinner offered to YSI members on January 30th.
This fee does not include participation in the dinner organised by the 8th Annual Meeting of Political Economy, which will take place on January 31st. Registration for this dinner has an additional cost of 25 euros.

HET Mandate 2025
2025-01-29 15:30 - 16:30 (Africa/Johannesburg) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/het-mandate-2025/
At this mandate meeting, we will discuss the relevant research areas for future projects and collaborations that will be included in the Working Group mandate. We want to invite new and experienced organisers to join us in developing exciting and innovative projects and becoming a part of a diverse Project Organizing Team.
If you have any ideas, whether they are new or old, conventional or radical, we encourage you to join our team. Everyone is welcome to participate and contribute their thoughts and suggestions. We look forward to meeting with our members and hearing their perspectives on improving our working group activities for 2025. This is an opportunity for members to share their ideas and contribute to developing the group’s mandate. Join us.

Let’s make 2025 a great year for our Working Group.

Money View Reading Group
2025-01-28 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/money-view-reading-group/2025-01-28/

YSI @ Agent based models for political economy
2025-01-28 | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33, Pisa, Pisa, 56127, Italy
Workshop Overview
This workshop aims to bring together cutting-edge results and new developments in Agent based models applied to political economy. With political economy we intend to embrace themes and domains at the heart of the Classics, including economic growth, business cycles, technical change, income distribution, functions and capacity of the State. In addition, we also welcome papers directly addressing the role and design of economic policies, including fiscal and monetary policies, innovation and industrial policies, trade and development policies, low-carbon transition policies, labour and welfare policies. The venue will be an occasion to exchange ideas, discuss open issues and challenges for future developments. The event welcomes contributions related to the following key topics:

Technological and structural change;
Labor market dynamics and employment policies;
Macroeconomic policies, business, and financial cycles;
Inequalities and climate change;
Modeling economic and ecological sustainability;
Industrial policy and innovation;
Financing transition to a low-carbon economy;
Validation and estimation of agent-based models;
(Big) Data visualization, simulation, and information processing.

Submission and Selection
Paper submission and participation are free of charge. In order to be considered, the applicant must submit either a complete paper or an extended abstract (up to two pages) in the form provided below. A limited number of contributions will be selected. Researchers from academia and policy-oriented institutions are encouraged to apply, with preference given to contributions incorporating agent-based modeling approaches. The selected papers will be considered for publication in the Italian Economic Journal. Longer contributions, collecting consolidated, teaching-friendly materials, may be hosted in the Cambridge Elements in Complexity and Agent-Based Models. Graduate students and young scholars are especially encouraged to submit.
No accommodation or travel expenses will be covered. However, selected participants may be granted a partial stipend through the Young Scholar Initiative (YSI) of INET, particularly for graduate students and early career researchers living outside Pisa.
Application form: https://bit.ly/ABMSSSA25 (alternative link)
Important Dates

Dates: 28th and 29th of January 2025
Deadline for applications: 09/12/2024.
Notification of acceptance: 20/12/2024.
Deadline for registration: 13/01/2025.

Venue
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33 – 56127 Pisa (Italy)
Supporting Institutions and Scientific Committee

Prof. Giovanni Dosi (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Prof. Andrea Roventini (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Profa. Maria Enrica Virgillito (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Prof. Marcelo C. Pereira (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Prof. Ítalo Pedrosa (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Gabriel Petrini (Young Scholar Initiative and Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Damiano Di Francesco (Young Scholar Initiative and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Alessandro Agnesi (Young Scholar Initiative and Università Politecnica delle Marche)
Teresa Felici (Young Scholar Initiative and Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia)

Contact Information

Keynesian Economics Working Group
mariaenrica.virgillito@santannapisa.it
gpetrinidasilveira@gmail.com
damiano.difrancesco@santannapisa.it
a.agnesi@pm.univpm.it
teresa.felici@iusspavia.it

YSI: Winter Workshop on Complex Systems
2025-01-26 08:00 - 2025-01-31 17:00 (Europe/Rome) | Rifugio Madonna delle Nevi, Italy
The Winter Workshop on Complex Systems (WWCS) is a one-week immersive experience for young researchers worldwide to engage in collaborative, interdisciplinary projects centered around complex systems. This 10th edition will be held from January 26th to 31st, 2025, at the Rifugio Madonna delle Nevi in Lombardy, Italy, continuing the tradition of past workshops in iconic locations like Amsterdam, Madrid, and Brussels.
The workshop’s primary focus is for participants to develop novel research projects within a dynamic, supportive environment. The format includes:

Keynote Talks: Insightful lectures from leading experts in complex systems (speakers to be announced).
Tutorials: Participants can propose and lead tutorials on relevant methodologies and topics.
Collaborative Projects: Attendees will form groups, define research questions, and present their (partial) findings at the end of the week.
Social Activities: These include a group event in Bergamo or Verona, a mountain hike to explore the local landscape, a guided city tour, and evening games to foster camaraderie.

Applicants will have the chance to secure travel funding from YSI (Young Scholars Initiative), which will also host dedicated sessions throughout the week. YSI will present its work, offer sessions for stipend holders to showcase their research, and facilitate a team-building exercise to strengthen connections within the YSI community.
Join us for a week of exploration, learning, and collaboration! For more details, visit wwcs2025.github.io.

YSI @ 8th International Astril Conference
2025-01-22 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Rome) | Roma TRE University – Department of Economics, Rome, Italy
The Keynesian Working Group is happy to announce a call for papers to the YSI Pre-conference @ ASTRIL 2025.
We invite you to submit your abstract to the pre-conference event organized by the Young Scholars Initiative at the 8th ASTRIL annual conference. The pre-conference will take place at Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy on January 22. Young scholars are highly encouraged to apply to the call for abstracts. If selected, you will be invited to present your work. Selections will be made based on merit (partial travel stipends, and accommodation will be available for selected participants).

The rise of AI is reshaping labor markets by driving automation and creating demand for new skills, prompting a reevaluation of workforce training. This shift impacts the labor market, wages, and income distribution, and might generate concerns, especially in a stagnant productivity and wage environment. As a consequence, key policy areas must include industrial strategy, welfare, and education. To ensure fair outcomes, Governments and unions must play a crucial role in managing these transformations.

The YSI Pre-conference Workshop at the 8th International ASTRIL Conference is a great opportunity to bring together young researchers to present their work, receive feedback from colleagues, and discuss potential collaborations. We invite young scholars to tackle relevant policy issues on the current macroeconomic challenges and their repercussions on the labor market.
We encourage contributions related (but not limited) to the following topics:
(1) Innovation’s effect on Labour Market;
(2) Working Time Reduction;
(3) Structural Change and Labour Productivity;
(4) Macroeconomic policies, Budget Constraints and Income Distribution.
The project is a partnership with the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies and Research on Labor (Associazione Studi e Ricerche Interdisciplinari sul Lavoro, ASTRIL) and Roma Tre University, co-organizor of the 8th International ASTRIL Conference. The participation in the main event is free.
All applicants must submit an abstract in English (300 words maximum). The submission deadline is December 7th. Decisions will be made based on clarity, relevance and originality of abstracts outlining the research question, method and (preliminary) results.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission by December 7
Acceptance Notification by December 14
8th ASTRIL International Conference: January 22-24, 2025

Money View Reading Group
2025-01-21 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/money-view-reading-group/2025-01-21/

RECIR Workshop alongside YSI Latin America
2025-01-21 08:00 - 2025-01-22 12:00 (America/New_York) | Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Av. Ladrón de Guevara E11-253, Quito, Pichincha, 170505, Ecuador
The RECIR Workshop alongside YSI Latin America is an academic event, organized by the Ecuadorian Network of Regional Science (RECIR, acronym in Spanish), aiming to establish a workspace for two main objectives:

Nurturing young researchers and students from a senior scholar.
Interaction among scholars from the Ecuadorian Network of Regional Science.

Our invited professor is Prof. Camilla Lenzi. She is Full Professor of Regional and Urban Economics at Politecnico di Milano. She holds an MSc in Industry and Innovation Analysis from SPRU – University of Sussex (UK) and a PhD in Economics from University of Pavia. She is involved in several EU funded projects in the frame of the H2020 program and acted as project manager and senior researcher for two major ESPON studies (KIT and T4 projects). She has published on several international journals. She acted as editor of two special issues in Regional Science Policy and Practice and Scienze Regionali and co-authored two books. She currently acts as secretary of the Italian Section of the Regional Science Association International (AISRe) for the term 2022-2025.
Scholars from the Ecuadorian Network of Regional Science and from universities in Quito, Ecuador are invited to participate in this workshop to benefit from cutting-edge research in regional science, academic exchange and network building with other researchers in the field.
During this workshop, we will have three consecutive events:
1. Seminar with an open audience: “Automation, market power and inequalities”.
2. Practical workshop on Patent Data Analysis and Measurement Issues about technological change: It consists in alternative methods to grasp technological change at the spatial level and mapping.
3. Feedback for research works of young scholars
This event will take place in Quito at Escuela Politécnica Nacional in 21st and 22nd January 2024.

International Conference on Social Identities, Institutions, and Economic Development in South Asia
2025-01-17 08:00 - 2025-01-18 18:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Azim Premji University, Bhopal Campus, Vidisha Bypass Road, Madhya Pradesh, 462022, India
South Asia, a region characterized by profound social diversity and complex economic dynamics, presents multidimensional challenges for both academics and policymakers. To envision more inclusive development and explore alternative approaches to contemporary issues, it is essential to engage with the interplay between social identities and institutions within this region. Extant literature emphasizes the critical relevance of situating and analyzing the process of economic development in any part of the world in its region specific context which is however deeply entangled with global processes, such as globalization and changing political landscape. Traditionally the discourse of economic development has been dominated by research entailing theoretical frameworks and methodology distanced, if not de-linked, from region specific complexities leading to, more often that not, failure of policies in delivering desired outcomes. Hence it is imperative to be critical about abstractions devoid of social and political factors such as identities (gender, caste, class, religion etc.) and institutions and endorse more nuanced theoretical and empirical research concerning the issue of economic development in general and more so for the complex reality of South Asia. Historically, identities and institutions have played decisive roles in both micro and macro changes, an effective understanding of which is not attainable through either a monolithic lens of a single discipline or one school of thought.
The Economics Group at Azim Premji University, Bhopal, India, in collaboration with Institute for New Economic Thinking and its Young Scholars Initiative (INET-YSI), is pleased to announce an international conference aimed at exploring the intricate relationships between social identities, institutions, and economic development in South Asia. Through this endeavour, we envisage to extend a platform to bring together scholars whose research concerns topics related, but not limited, to the ones listed below. We welcome both theoretical and empirical research contributions. Papers employing a range of methodologies are encouraged, including quantitative research based on statistical analyses, econometric modeling, and data-driven studies, as well as qualitative research, including ethnographic studies, case studies, interviews, and narrative analyses. In line with our commitment to promoting and nurturing pluralism in economics, this conference will serve as a critical platform for fostering a more engaging dialogue among alternative theoretical and ideological perspectives and to collectively explore the possibilities of new economic thinking envisioning a better and sustainable future for all.

Conference Objectives:

To explore the impact of various social identities (e.g., caste, gender, religion, race, class) on economic development in South Asia.
To examine the roles of institutions and policies in shaping economic outcomes and social inequalities.
To promote a pluralistic approach in economics by integrating both mainstream and heterodox perspectives.
To facilitate interactions between researchers employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, including ethnographic studies.

Research Topics:
We welcome research on issues related to, but not limited to, the following sub-themes:

Role of Social identities and institutions in economic development
State – Market interactions including issues related to regulations and public finance
Inequality along multiple dimensions
Economic progress and environmental sustainability.
Networks and migration in South Asia
Theorizing the rural in South Asia
Regional perspectives and trajectories of development
Challenges of urban development

We look forward to your participation and engaging discussions that advance our understanding of these critical issues.
Eligibility:
We encourage doctoral candidates and early career researchers (within 5 years after PhD) to submit an extended abstract of 2000-3000 words and complete the application form to be considered for selection in this conference. Selected participants will be provided with travel and accommodation to facilitate their participation at the event in Bhopal, India.
Important Dates:
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 24 November, 2024
Notification to Selected Participants: 7 December 2024
Deadline for Submitting Full Paper: 22 December 2024
Dates of Conference: 17 – 18 January 2025

Organising Committee:
Avinash M. Tripathi (Faculty, Economics group, Azim Premji University, Bhopal)
Saswata Guha Thakurata (Faculty, Economics group, Azim Premji University, Bhopal; Coordinator, South Asia Working Group, INET-YSI)
Shiuli Vanaja (Faculty, Economics group, Azim Premji University, Bhopal)
Sunit Arora (Faculty, Economics group, Azim Premji University, Bhopal)
Sunanda Nair-Bidkar (Director, South Asia, INET)
Bikram Barman (Coordinator, South Asia Working Group, INET-YSI)

For more information or queries, please contact: apubhopal@youngscholarsinitiative.org

Economic Policies in the Context of the Socio-Ecological Transition II
2025-01-15 09:00 - 2025-01-16 18:00 (Europe/London) | Queen Mary University of London, 327 Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 4NS, London, United Kingdom
Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. The green transition and its broader effects have garnered considerable attention across multiple research disciplines. These range from technological innovations in the natural sciences to the social sciences, which delve into the complex and evolving dynamics between society and environmental sustainability. In particular, the economic effects of climate change and the shifts required for a successful green transition have become key areas of investigation using both theoretical and empirical modeling. These models are essential for deepening our understanding of the complex interrelationships between the macroeconomy and the environment.
The aim of this workshop is to foster interaction among PhD students and young scholars whose research focuses on the types of models and frameworks mentioned above. Participants will have the opportunity to present their research and receive valuable feedback from senior scholars in the field.
The second edition of the Economic Policies in the Context of the Socio-Ecological Transition will take place on January 15th and 16th at Queen Mary University of London, UK.
We invite submissions from researchers working in the following areas:

Development economics within the socio-ecological transition
Macroeconomics in open economies and growth regimes
The intersection of climate change, finance, and macroeconomics
Industrial policy, international trade, and global value chains

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts (max. 400 words) must be submitted by November 15th
Selected participants will be notified in early December
Full papers will be required by January 5th

Limited regional travel and accommodation stipends are available for selected scholars, based on the quality and relevance of their contributions. If you wish to apply for funding, please indicate this in your submission.
For further information, please contact: Weiwei Bendixen, w.l.w.bendixen@qmul.ac.uk

Money View Reading Group
2025-01-14 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/money-view-reading-group/2025-01-14/

School of Advanced Studies in the Reappraisal of the Surplus Approach
2025-01-13 08:00 - 2025-01-18 17:00 (America/New_York) | University of Roma Tre – Department of Economics, Via Silvio D'Amico, Roma, Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale, 00145, Italy
The Keynesian Working Group is pleased to announce a call for applications for the YSI Poster Session at the “Centro Sraffa” Winter School. Organized by the Centro di Ricerche e Documentazione “Piero Sraffa,” the Winter School is open to PhD students and young scholars with an interest in the modern revival of Classical economic theory.
The school’s primary goal is to provide participants with a deeper understanding of the surplus approach, as developed by Piero Sraffa and other scholars. Participants will engage with the analyses of Classical economists and explore contemporary research conducted within this theoretical framework.
The Sraffian Winter School is a key event for young researchers, offering a unique opportunity to rediscover the Classical approach while engaging with broader economic debates and their relevance to contemporary issues. The lectures will introduce participants to the foundations of the main lines of research within the modern revival of Classical theory and are organized in four modules:

Classical Theory and Marginalist (or Neoclassical) Theory: Their Different Analytical Structures (Introductory Module);
the Critique of Neoclassical Theory (Module A);
the Surplus Approach to Value and Distribution(Module B);
the Classical-Keynesian Approach to Output Determination and Economic Growth (Module C).

In previous editions, the School has not only fostered personal and intellectual growth but has also served as a platform for collaborative research projects and the formation of lasting professional relationships among participants.
The YSI Poster Session at the “Centro Sraffa” Winter School is an excellent opportunity for young researchers to present their work, receive valuable feedback from peers, and explore potential collaborations.
A selected number of students accepted to the “Centro Sraffa” School and interested in participating in the YSI Poster Session will receive a partial travel and accommodation stipend from YSI/INET.
Students interested in participating in the YSI Poster Session must apply to both the Sraffian Winter School and the YSI Poster Session. When applying for the School, they must indicate their interest in presenting a poster in the YSI Poster Session @ Sraffian Winter School. Further information can be found at centrosraffa.org (extended link: http://www.centrosraffa.org/conferenceandseminarsdetails.aspx?id=95) or by emailing cswinterschool2025@gmail.com. In addition to the official “Centro Sraffa” School application, interested students should complete this form to state their motivation for funding: Apply now.

Important dates:
Deadline for application: 31 October 2024
Notification of acceptance: 5 November 2024
Deadline for registration: 20 November 2024
Winter School dates: 13-18 January 2025

Money as if Finance Mattered
2025-01-09 - 2025-01-12 | Freie Universitaet Berlin, Kaiserswerther Straße, Berlin, 14195, Germany
Risking some oversimplification, contemporary economic thought on money and finance often spans from a Wicksellian approach, which underscores finance while treating money as relatively unimportant, to a broadly monetarist approach, which emphasizes money and frequently overlooks finance. Our gathering aims to address these divided perspectives by foregrounding the crucial, intertwined roles of money and finance as essential elements within modern capitalist economies. We view this as an imperative starting point for a more comprehensive conversation, one that challenges long-standing gaps in our understanding of monetary and financial reality.

Monthly Office Hours for (Aspiring) Organizers
2025-01-08 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/monthly-office-hours-for-aspiring-organizers/2025-01-08/
Ask any questions about how to run projects in YSI
The conversation may cover:

What it means to be an organizer in YSi
How to think about projects in general
The logistics of virtual projects
The logistics of in-person projects
Questions you have about a specific project

You can watch recordings from previous calls here:

February 2024

Money View Reading Group
2025-01-07 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | https://heske.wisdmlabs.net/event/money-view-reading-group/2025-01-07/

‘Think in Ink’ Writing and Capacity Building Workshops for Humanities post-graduate students
2025-01-07 | National University of Lesotho, P.O. 180, ROMA, 180, Lesotho
‘Think in Ink’ Writing and Capacity Building Workshops for Humanities post-graduate students

National University of Lesotho

7-8 January 2025

Introduction
Academic Writing is an integral part of all scholarly endeavours across all disciplines. It is the face and final reflection of all academic processes such as research, data analysis, and synthesis. Thus, it is an important skill that all scholars should have. Mentorship is crucial in assisting post-graduate students and early career scholars to hone their skills and break into the world of academic writing. This has been sorely missing in parts of the Global South, where the intellectual and academic output has been relatively smaller compared to the Global North. Indeed, research has shown that the work of Africa-based scholars in the Humanities is underrepresented in high-impact international journals. This owes to several issues, such as inadequate funding, mentorship, and a lack of exposure, which have contributed significantly to this state of affairs. This has been exacerbated by the precarious economic position of most African countries, which has limited these young scholars, not only financially but in guaranteeing scholarly exposure. In this light, this project seeks to help build capacity for post-graduate students by holding a mentorship workshop in which students will be trained in advanced academic writing so they can tackle critical research themes in African socio-economic development.

Project Description
The proposed event is a two-day workshop that seeks to provide a platform on which the said challenges can be addressed to effectively capacitate postgraduate students with research and academic writing skills. Experienced scholars will be invited to make presentations on critical issues around the importance and relevance of academic research in Africa’s socio-economic development, the rigmarole involved in research, and the principles of academic writing in the Humanities. Training will also include inducting post-graduate students into the world of publishing, especially how to turn their theses into publishable material in reputable international journals. Thus, the first day will be devoted to presentations from experts to tackle various themes related to research, writing, and publishing. At the end of the day, students will be afforded an opportunity to discuss their personal experiences in a plenary session with experts. The second and final day will afford students who have already done research in their respective fields to present their research findings to the audience, including fellow students and mentors. This will enable them to receive useful and critical feedback. Moreover, the second session of the second day will be set aside for one-on-one sessions between students and their allocated mentors. This will help students to fine-tune their work and knock it into shape in preparation for the next stage, which will either be the submission of a thesis or submission for publication with reputable journals.

On the whole, such interactions should contribute to better quality writing, increased publication output, broader networking opportunities, and the creation of productive academic collaborations, all of which will benefit young scholars as they seek to carve out a niche in the academic world. The workshop targets an attendance of 20 post-graduate students from the region. Participants will be selected from those who would have responded to the workshop call and are at the writing stage of the projects in Humanities. Preference will also be given to those who have their manuscripts ready for publication.

The objectives of this workshop neatly resonate with the mission and vision of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) which seeks to increase the research output of budding scholars and ensure that research provides answers to the continent’s economic and developmental problems. Further, the workshop seeks to bridge the gap between research and development on the African continent by training a cohort of upcoming scholars on research and writing, itself an opportunity that has been sorely missing in many parts of the African continent. Equally important, the workshop will buttress the position of the YSI in Lesotho with the hope that most post-graduate students will become active members of the growing community.
Objectives

To equip students with academic writing skills
To endow participants with publishing skills
To help students to appreciate the relevance of research in socio-economic development in African societies
To capacitate PhD Students on how they can navigate life after doctoral studies
To foster networks among Young Scholars

Activities
The workshop will take place over two days. The first day will be devoted to the keynote speech and four presentations from invited presenters. They will tackle topics ranging from the importance of research to the development, processing, and synthesis of research material, writing for academic purposes, and turning (parts of a) thesis into publications. The second day will be devoted to students presenting their research output to their peers and the invited experts. Students will also break away into groups in which they will receive face-to-face mentorship and feedback from invited experts.

Expected Outcome
By the end of this workshop, students are expected to have grasped thesis and publication writing skills. This will greatly assist them in their dissertation writing processes and also in breaking into the world of publishing.

Intended Sponsors
Young Scholars’ Initiative (YSI)
National University of Lesotho

Local Organisers
Godfrey Hove (National University of Lesotho)
Relebohile Letlatsa (National University of Lesotho)
Mokone Musi (National University of Lesotho)

Película – Tax Wars: Lucha contra la evasión fiscal
2024-12-18 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Santiago) | Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Diagonal Paraguay, Santiago, Santiago, Chile
Young Scholar Initiative y el Observatorio de Políticas Económicas (OPES) te invitan a la presentación del documental Tax Wars: Lucha contra la evasión fiscal.
Este documental cuenta con la participación de destacados expertos como Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh y José Antonio Ocampo, quienes abordan temas cruciales sobre las multinacionales, las grandes fortunas y la urgente necesidad de combatir la evasión fiscal de estos enormes patrimonios.
“Las multinacionales se especializan en el arte de ocultar sus ganancias en paraísos fiscales y así eludir el pago de impuestos. Pero un puñado de expertos reunidos en la Comisión Independiente para la Reforma de la Fiscalidad Corporativa Internacional (ICRICT), han conseguido poner contra las cuerdas a los actores más poderosos de la economía mundial, contribuyendo a una revisión profunda de la arquitectura fiscal internacional. “Tax Wars” narra la historia del nacimiento, la lucha y las primeras victorias de estos paladines de la justicia fiscal sobre el imperio de las multinacionales.”
Te invitamos a disfrutar de esta proyección gratuita en la Facultad de Economía de la Universidad de Chile. Al finalizar la película, habrá un espacio para compartir una copa y conversar sobre el tema en un ambiente relajado. Si deseas participar, asegúrate de inscribirte completando el formulario a continuación. ¡Recuerda que los cupos son limitados!
¿Dónde? Auditorio Pwc, Facultad de Economía y Negocios (Universidad de Chile)
¿Cuándo? 18 de diciembre a las 18:00 (hasta las 20:00)
Inscripciones en el siguiente formulario: https://forms.gle/uDJKH8yZ5qMRgWja7
¡Te esperamos!

Repositioning Early Career Legal Scholars for Emergent Technology and Business Models
2024-12-17 14:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Aare Afe Babalola Building, Nigerian Bar Association,, NTC Road, Iyaganku GRA, Ibadan , Ibadan, Ibadan South West, 200273, Nigeria
Title: Repositioning Early Career Legal Scholars for Emergent Technology and Business Models
Concept note: The relevance of law to the study of economics, and economic development cannot be overemphasized. This assertion finds validity against the backdrop that business and economic activities are only legal to the extent that they find expression within extant laws.
Therefore, the roles of persons trained in the art of law comes to the fore. These persons with academic and professional qualifications to render services as researchers, law teachers, advocates, solicitors, arbitrators, etc are not economists in the strict sense. However, they are one of the core drivers of economies, and economics.
However, in the discharge of their services, these professionals are encumbered with some foundational challenges. These problems are often inherent in their basic training, for example, Legal training is significantly traditional, it is largely built on references, and precedents.
Further challenges are found in ambiguous, or stale statutory provisions, hence law, and legal frameworks may be stagnant.
On the converse, businesses respond to the dynamics of societies. Successful businesses, professionals, same as profound economic models, are those who had in yesteryears projected and prepared for the future with near accuracy.
However, many researchers, law teachers, advocates, solicitors, arbitrators, etc particularly those in the formative stages of their career tend to practice their trade from the view point of their training; practices immersed in tradition, and detached from current, and projected business and economic realities.
Invariably, the services they render become inadequate to industry emerging demands. The primary area of deficiency is the application of law to emerging and projected economic thoughts and business models, specifically technology and globalisation.
The challenge spiral-balls into stunted career growth for many of these early career professionals which ultimately negatively impacts their general development.
Furthermore, the identified unavailability of required expertise in the adequate quality and quantity, impacts negatively on national economic development. Consequently, new and positive economic development that supports sustainable development is encumbered.
Therefore, a young scholars workshop is proposed to address the identified anomaly.
Date: 17th December, 2024.
Speakers:
Oluseun Abimbola, SAN
Ibrahim Lawal Esq. Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Ibadan branch
Boluwatife Sanya Esq, former chairman, Young Lawyers Forum, Ibadan
Chimezie Okoli Esq, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan.

Structure of the workshop
The workshop is proposed to run for four (4) hours. 15:00 to 19:00
Welcome speech: Mr Ibrahim Lawal esq.
Artificial intelligence and law, an introduction: Mr Chimezie Okoli, Esq
Emerging economic activities and copyright law: Mr Boluwatife Sanya, Esq
Main topic 1: Oluwaseun Abimbola SAN / 1 hour
Main topic 2: tba / 1 hour
Group activities/reports/questions and answers: 1 hour
Professional dinner: 1hour
Vote of thanks: Ajibola Akanji, Esq
Dress code: Formal (Supreme Court of Nigeria regulation dress for advocate and solicitors).

To participate, you must be registered as a member of the Young Scholars Initiative.
Thereafter, apply to attend the workshop by sending information requested below in PDF format (code named: YSI-IBADAN-LAWYERS-WORKSHOP) to:
fle@youngscholarsinitiative.org ;
and
akanjiajibola16@yahoo.com
on or before 15th October, 2024.
Your full name:
Supreme Court number:
Year of call:
Email address:
Affiliation:

Thank you.

Integrating Gender Perspectives for Sustainable Climate Action in Southern Africa
2024-12-17 08:00 - 17:00 (Africa/Harare) | Women's University in Africa, Arcturus Road, Harare, Harare, 00263, Zimbabwe
Undoubtedly and undeniably so, climate change has had adverse impacts livelihoods across the globe. Such impacts range from changes in rainfall patterns due to changes in temperature resulting in more severe and frequent storms causing unpredictable floods and longer-lasting droughts. There have been more frequent flooding and landslides, destroying homes and communities. Climate change has caused rising global temperatures causing massive crop and fishery collapse, the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of species, and entire communities becoming uninhabitable. While these outcomes may still be avoidable, climate change is already causing suffering and death. Those living in the world’s poorest countries which have contributed least to the problem are the most climate vulnerable. They have the inadequate financial resources to respond to the crises or adapt, and they’re closely dependent on a healthy, thriving natural world for food and income. Climate change and rising inequality are interconnected crises, decision makers must take action to combat both.
Understanding these impacts can help policy makers, communities, and governments prepare on how to combat the effects and reduce gas emissions that causes climate change. In a warming world, agriculture has become more unpredictable for farming communities. More frequent and severe hurricanes have devastated communities. Ultimately, impacts to our agricultural systems pose a direct threat to the global food supply causing food shortages and price hikes driven by climate change further widening inequalities.
The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicated that the resulting climate change will be widespread with far reaching consequences on African people and their socio-economic activities such as agricultural production, food security, water availability and human health. Thus, African women will be greatly affected as they depend more on the environment, especially in rural areas. This has also enormously widened the gender gap and inequalities between men and women as workload for women increased due to the much-needed agricultural coping and adaption measures. According to UN Women (2016), challenges like inadequate polices, insufficient funding and lack of technical expertise continue to affect the integration of gender for climate action in Southern Africa.
In Africa like the rest of the Global South, women are often responsible for gathering and producing food, collecting water and sourcing fuel wood for cooking and heating. This increases their exposure to adverse climate events compared to their male counterparts. Gender inequalities exacerbated by climate shocks have increased women’s vulnerabilities. A deeper appreciation that climate change impacts differently and disproportionately on men and women is critical and calls for gender sensitive policies to address the reality of their needs. Thus, climate change threatens human rights of women more including the right to food, health, and shelter. The link between gender and climate change vulnerability is inarguable and failure to understand this link is likely to affect the overall achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) specifically goal 5 and 13.
Women are not only vulnerable to climate change, but they are also effective agents of change in relation to both mitigation and adaptation to climate change. They have significant knowledge and understanding of the changing environmental conditions, which could play a critical role in identifying viable and community adaption. However, the limited engagement of women in climate decision making and related climate change dialogues poses serious challenges in sufficiently adapting and mitigating against climate change impacts. In partnership the Young Scholars Initiative, Women’s University has therefore organized a two-day summer school to deliberate on the above issues and come up with recommendations to address them.
The summer school will serve as a crucial event for university students in Southern Africa, bringing together academics, gender activists, policy makers and climate scientists. Hosted by the Women’s University the summer school will provide an in-depth analysis of how communities, non-governmental organizations and governments in Southern Africa have dealt with climate change related social and economic issues.
Summer school Themes

Gender, climate change and development nexus in Sothern in Africa
Climate change and gender- based violence
Challenges to women involvement in climate decision making and climate dialogues.
Gender-sensitive responses to climate change
Women as agents of change in relation to both mitigation and adaptation

Who can Apply and How.
Young Scholars, Masters and PhD students, early career scholars, and postdoctoral fellows can apply by the 15 November 2024 by submitting abstracts of not more than 300 words and a motivation of 350 words as to why they want to attend.
For more information contact summer school organisers Rodhina Madzima at rodhinamadzima@gmail.com and Chimwemwe Banda @ chemwabanda@gmail.com

Milan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Seminars (MInERS) – Second Meeting
2024-12-16 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Rome) | University of Milan – Biccoca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, Milano, Città metropolitana di Milano, 20126, Italy
MInERS is seminar series organized by a network of scholars located in Milan dedicated to promoting events, networking and research in the area of Innovation, Science and Entrepreneurship. As part of this initiative, we promote participation in the DEMS Economics Seminar, scheduled for 16 December 2024, 16:00, at University of Milan – Biccoca in building U6 room 29, in Piazza Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126, Milan.
Keynote: Prof. Paola Criscuolo – Imperial College Business School, Head of the Management and Entrepreneurship Department. Paola has been an Associate Editor of Research Policy. She is currently a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Journal and of the Editorial Advisory Board of Industry and Innovation. She is also a member of the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) Markets and Economics Advisory Group.
Title: “Innovation in large organizations: the role of autonomy and bottom-up inventions”
Abstract: In this talk, Prof Criscuolo will delve into the critical role of autonomy and bottom-up inventions in driving creativity and innovation within large organizations. While existing research has shown that operational autonomy, or the freedom to determine how to approach a given problem, enhances employees’ creativity, this presentation will focus on a less-explored type of autonomy, namely strategic autonomy, or the freedom to decide which problems to tackle. Prof Criscuolo will present her prior work on “bootlegging”—the phenomenon where employees engage in unauthorized, underground, self-initiated innovation efforts. The positive spillovers effects of bootlegging on individual innovation performance found in this work will be juxtaposed with the findings from recent research examining problem formulation complexity of bottom-up inventions. Drawing on theories of creative problem-solving, Professor Criscuolo’s latest work leverages a unique dataset of invention disclosures from corporate inventors and the descriptions by inventors of the problem they try to tackle. The study hypothesizes and finds that bottom-up inventions exhibit lower problem formulation complexity than top-down inventions generated through structured R&D projects, where problems are predefined. This reduced complexity in problem formulation correlates with a lower likelihood of such inventions being considered for patent protection, underscoring potential limitations of employee-driven innovation in structured corporate settings. These two contributions advance our understanding of the nuanced role of autonomy in contributing to the innovative performance of large organizations, illuminating the advantages and trade-offs of operational and strategic autonomy.
A Q&A session is planned afterwards. Then, join us for a complimentary aperitivo organized by MInERS at at Farinami Bicocca (Piazza della Trivulziana, 5) from 18:00 post-seminar.
Please refer to our website for additional information
Who Should Participate?
We welcome expressions of interest from graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, early-career researchers, professors and professionals residing in Milan and its surrounding areas. Participants should have an interest in Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship research.
Social Event Registration:
To express your interest in this initiative, please register in this link.
For organizational efficiency, registration is important: upon registration, you will receive an entry form to allow immediate access to the seminar premises on the day of the event. Please be aware that the complimentary aperitivo has limited space, available on a first-come, first-served basis, with registered seminar attendees receiving priority. To ensure your attendance, we highly recommend confirming your participation as early as possible. However, participation to the seminar remains possible also without registration and the aperitivo will be, in the worst case, at the participant’s cost.
For inquiries, please contact: behavior@youngscholarsinitiative.org
We look forward to your participation!
Key information:
Date: December 16th 2024
DEMS Economics Seminar Time: 16h CET, University of Milan – Biccoca, building U6 room 29. Piazza Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126, Milan.
Social Event: 18h (post-seminar),
MInERS Commitee:
Stefano Baruffaldi – Polytechnic University of Milan
Marco Guerzoni – University of Milan – Bicocca
Gabriele Pellegrino – Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Felix Poege – Bocconi University
Anita Quas – University of Milan – Statale
Daniel Souza – Polytechnic University of Milan

Workshop in Economics of Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge (WICK#12)
2024-12-12 | Collegio Carlo Alberto, Piazza Vincenzo Arbarello, 8, Turin, TO, 10122, Italy
The Workshop in Economics of Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge (WICK#12) for doctoral students and young researchers is jointly organized by the Vilfredo Pareto Doctoral Program in Economics – University of Turin, BRICK and the YSI Complexity Economics Working Group, and each year it attracts about 20 young researchers in Economics and Social Sciences from all over the world. This will be the 12th edition of the Workshop and it will take place on December 12–13, 2024 at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin (Italy).
The aim of the workshop is to bring together young researchers from different disciplines and provide them an opportunity for discussion of both full and early works. Participants will also have the opportunity to receive helpful feedback from distinguished faculty members and external scholars.
The main topics of the Workshop are Economics of Knowledge, Complexity and Innovation. The focus of the event is on Economics of Science, Innovation and Technology, Evolutionary Economics, Economic Geography, and their policy implications.
The workshop will bring together methodologically heterogeneous works from Econometric contributions to Complex Network Analysis and computational methods. The plurality of the approaches and the broad pool of knowledge covered in WICK#12 is embodied by the members of our Scientific Committee who are active participants of the event, together with some other senior scholars, that come as discussants during the sessions of the workshop.
Participants may apply for a presentation session. The participants will have 30 minutes to present their work. A senior researcher is going to lead a 10 minutes discussion of the paper/research projects after the presentation.
To apply for the workshop the submission of an extended abstract of the paper/research proposal is enough (maximum 1000 words), and the full paper will be required three weeks before the Workshop. As usual, the young researchers will also have the opportunity to attend lessons from renowned scholars in the field.
This year we are glad to host as keynote speakers Prof. Hanna Hottenrott (TUM – Technical University of Munich), Prof. John P. Walsh (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Prof. Andrea Morrison (University of Pavia). For more details, please visit our website: https://wick.carloalberto.org/
