The Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2022 aims to bring together researchers from around the world, focusing on demography and climate change from diverse perspectives, including - but not limited - to demography, economics, sociology, environmental sciences and geography. Contributions with a...

The topic ‘Performance that matters: sparking the entrepreneurial spirit’. What kind of performance does society need and rightly expect from companies? What kind of performance inspires people to give their best and other companies to emulate it? How to link purpose and values with...

For this year’s 70th Annual Conference, the JSPE Board of Directors decided the general theme of “SDGs and Modern Capitalism: A Political Economic Approach.” The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted at the UN Summit in 2015, constitute a ubiquitous national and international...

Topics of the conference will include: - Methodological and analytical advances in socio-economic metabolism - Concepts, data, and modelling of the stock-flow-service nexus - Resource, waste and recycling management - Circular economy - Socio-economic metabolism and the energy, climate, land and...

The conference is open to all forms of energy and environment topics. For energy, the subjects could range from production, transmission, distribution, retail and financial markets. For environment, the topics could focus on policies, emerging technologies and institutions.

The scientific as well as political interest in behavioral responses to environmental policy as well as measures beside the traditional policy instruments (like taxes, permits or command and control) has grown considerably in the last twenty years. “Behavioral schemes” like providing...

To meet our climate targets and to reduce the economic dependence on fossil fuels we have to develop alternative energy systems and set up an appropriate infrastructure. This transition requires additional investments from companies and governments. Our conference will focus on these investment...

Over the past three decades, the world economy was transformed by global value chains (GVCs), which proved an engine of economic growth and development. Deep integration into GVCs also benefited Central, Eastern and Southeastern European (CESEE) economies. In recent years, the pace of GVC...

In alignment with the Paris targets the EU has committed to carbon neutrality by mid-century. All member states are therefore required to propose and update their long-term strategies for 2050 accordingly. The summer school discusses the current state of economic modeling to support the design...

56. ITH Konferenz "Migration weltweit: Linke Strategien, migrantische Akteur:innen,und kapitalistische Interessen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart" Wie haben Arbeiter:innenbewegungen und/oder anderen soziale Bewegungen in den Ein-und Auswanderungsregionen die Frage der räumlichen...