The Young Scholar Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (YSI/INET) Urban and Regional Economics Working Group (URE-WG) welcomes submissions to the ‘YSI Workshop on Smart Specialization for Sustainability’, as part of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) Annual International Conference 2024, in New Orleans - Louisiana. Recent years have emphasized the need […]
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: […]
Description Since about 2000, especially with the Fast-Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP), then a few years later ‘indigenization policy’ Zimbabwe's political economy has undergone a very complex and multifaceted transformation. This complex transformation was characterized by Professor Raftopoulos as the ‘re-configured political economy’ and the political economy that has unraveled since then is dominated […]
*** SPANISH *** En esta confluencia de crisis sociales y ecológicas, ya no podemos permitirnos ser poco imaginativos;  ya no podemos permitirnos prescindir del pensamiento utópico. Estas crisis son demasiado serias y las posibilidades demasiado amplias  para ser resueltas por los modos habituales de pensamiento, las mismas sensibilidades que produjeron estas crisis en primer lugar.(Murray Bookchin, 1982) En la […]
Call for Presentation for an Online Webinar Series and book chapters With the support of the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Young Scholars Initiative and Globalisation and Economy in a long-term perspective, we are hosting a series of webinars that bring together historians of economic thought from around the world who work on the History […]
In this paper, Danilo Spinola (Chairman) YSI community board examines the firm-level effects of Chinese manufacturing import penetration on the performance of manufacturing firms in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries. We construct a dataset of 59 BRI member countries by combining firm-level data from the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey with industry-level data from the […]
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 […]
Project Description The diversity of approaches to entrepreneurship is remarkable, ranging from establishing new businesses to driving innovation and value creation. Whatever its manifestation, entrepreneurship requires action and the active participation of individuals who assume the role of entrepreneurs. Traditionally, researchers have limited entrepreneurship studies, focusing on a stereotypical portrayal of entrepreneurs. However, there is […]
The purpose of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is to convene Member Countries every year to determine ambition and responsibilities and identify and assess climate measures. The 21st session of the COP (COP21) led to the Paris Agreement, which mobilized global collective action to […]
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 […]
Early Career Researchers and Professionals Workshops at the Global Conference and General Assembly of the International Cooperative Alliance, 25th to 30th November, 2024, New Delhi, India. Title: Deepening Involvements: Empowering Early Career Professions for Contemporary Challenges through the Cooperative Model. Format: In-person event Place: New Delhi, India Date: 25th to 30th November, 2024 Description: Workshops […]
Our reading group on the works of Thandika Mkandawire invites anyone interested in African development, heterodox economics, and critical perspectives on policy-making. Mkandawire, a Zimbabwean/Malawian economist and social scientist, is renowned for his critique of mainstream development policies and for advancing alternative approaches that consider the unique socio-political landscapes of African countries. His work addresses […]
