The real estate market is in centre of major events in the 21th Century: the 2007/2008 global financial crisis that emerged in the American housing market, and had widespread effects across globe, including the Euro zone crisis and a global wave of fiscal austerity; and the current global need for restructuring urban built environment and […]
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 […]
The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), in collaboration with the Economic and Business History Society (EBHS), will hold a doctoral workshop for around 6 doctoral students on Wednesday, May 28, in Birmingham, AL, USA. The aim of this one-day workshop is to support the career and research development as well as networking of new scholars in […]
This reading group will begin with Giovanni Arrighi's "The Long Twentieth Century" and meet every other Wednesday. Through Arrighi's analysis of how state power and capital accumulation have intertwined across historical cycles, we can better understand the ongoing transformations in global political-economic relations. After completing Arrighi's work (approximately 6 encounters), we'll collectively decide how to […]
Overview This panel discussion will bring together emerging scholars from diverse regions to explore the intersections of sustainability transitions, innovation economics, and decolonizing perspectives. It will be hosted as part of the 10th-anniversary celebration of the International NEST (Network for Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions) Conference, held at the University of Sussex, UK in […]
We are launching a new YSI-EHES Economic History Graduate Webinar edition next Spring. As in previous editions, we provide a platform for young researchers to present their ongoing work and get feedback from senior scholars. The online format has made exchanges among people from different regions and research areas possible, offering early-stage researchers an important venue. If […]
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 […]
The workshop aims to bring together young scholars in North America whose work engages in critical thematic issues broadly relating to economic development and heterodox economics. The workshop consists of one panel under the following theme: Contemporary issues in Heterodox and Development Economics. Key areas of focus include structural inequalities, such as those related to income, gender, […]
YSI will be attending the fourth Turin International Festival of Economics from 30 May - 1 June 2025. We will dedicate the mornings to a variety of young scholar sessions and have ample time to enjoy the Festival. The festival sessions will take place all over the centre of Turin. The Festival program will be available […]
We are pleased to announce the Second Edition of the Summer School of Applied Economics for Latin America (EVEAAL) 2025, an academic initiative designed for graduate students and researchers interested in exploring and applying innovative methodologies in applied economics. This edition of EVEAAL will focus on Agent-Based Model (ABM) and Stock-Flow Consistent (SFC) macroeconomic modeling, […]
Overview: The Session on Financial and Economic Networks is a focus session of the International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2025), taking place in Maastricht, the Netherlands, from June 2nd to 6th, 2025. This session, scheduled as part of the conference program, provides a unique platform for researchers and scholars interested in financial […]
The PKES PhD Student Conference, co-organised by the Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES), the Young Scholar’s Initiative and the University of Hertfordshire, invites advanced PhD students working in pluralist economic traditions - such as post-Keynesian, Marxist, structuralist, institutionalist, feminist, and others - to present their ongoing research. Participating students will submit a draft chapter of […]
