The Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP) announce a day and a half of lectures, workshops, and debates held on the 26th and 27th of June, just before the annual STOREP conference, in Siena, Italy. The joint event aims at...

Investments are the gamble on the future of a community. Their benefits span over the present. They stimulate aggregate demand. They have positive effects on expectations as well as spin-offs in terms of knowledge and innovation. Their benefits also project into the future adding productive...

Topics: - Historical analysis of growth successes and failures - Specificity of development paths - Institutions and economic development - Institutions and growth constraints - Culture and economic development - The language and the rhetoric of economic development - Economic cooperation and...

Theme: Redesigning the MBA

Topics: - Microeconomics vs. macroeconomics - Partial equilibrium vs. general equilibrium analysis - Applied economics vs. applied econometrics - “Local" histories vs. “global” histories

This conference is aimed at the International, External and Corporate Relations, PR, Marketing, Communication and Alumni Professionals in business schools. Theme: Connecting for Growth - Strategy & Tools

The purpose of this workshop is to further contribute to this theoretical work but also to the empirical and numerical analyses in the field. We will therefore especially invite contributions dealing with - the theoretical analysis of supply reactions to climate policy, - new approaches to...

The following non-exhaustive list of topics would be particular welcome: - Theoretical and empirical analysis of taxes on the financial sector - Analysis of interactions and trade-offs between regulation and taxation - Effects of financial sector taxation on the macro economy and financial...

In most OECD countries the era of long-term care (LTC) has arrived. More than two out of five people aged 65 or older report having some type of functional limitation (sensory, physical, mental, self-care disability, or difficulty leaving home). A few years from now, the ageing trend will...