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Technical change, employment and inequality in the UK
According to the London Futures Deloitte report, 35 per cent of the current workforce in the UK is at risk of being made redundant over the next two decades as a result of the introduction of digital robots that will replace their work. For those that manage to remain employed, it is difficult to predict […]
Fiscal policies and macroeconomic performance, a workshop in Buenos Aires
As part of ISIGrowth activities, the Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE) has organised in Buenos Aires on 17-18 December 2015, a workshop on macroeconomic crises. Speakers included ISIGrowth researchers who presented the paper by Giovanni Dosi, Mauro Napoletano, Andrea Roventini, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Tania Treibich “Expectation formation, fiscal policies and macroeconomic […]
Agent-based modelling, a workshop in Paris
As part of ISIGrowth activities, the University of Bielefeld and other partners organise in Paris on 8 January 2016 a workshop on agent-based modelling. Speakers include ISIGrowth researchers Herbert Dawid and Antoine Mandel on “Socially influenced wage expectations and inequality”, Mauro Napoletano on “High-frequency trading and the emergence of flash crashes”, Sander van der Hoog […]
The Greek Crisis and Europe
ISIGrowth researcher Mario Pianta addresses a workshop on the Greek crisis and European policy in Turin. The continuing crisis of the Greek economy has challenged the European consensus on austerity policies and has opened up a debate on the need for alternative actions. The institutional problems of the EU and EMU, rising Euroscepticism and future […]
Changing Europe
On the 19th of November 2016, Giovanni Dosi and Andrea Roventini presented ISIgrowth project at the European Commission, during the conference “Changing Europe”. European growth is anemic, European investment in innovation is stagnating, inequality is increasing and financialisation is more and more pervasive. Providing a comprehensive diagnostics of the relationships between innovation, employment dynamics and […]
The Intellectual Legacy of Christopher Freeman
“The Intellectual Legacy of Christopher Freeman – Some Contemporary Challenges for Economics, Innovation Studies, and Public Policy” is the workshop held at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna on the 5th and the 6th of November 2016. Christopher Freeman was one of the pioneers and gave a great impulse to the studies in science, innovation and economics. […]
Which industrial policy for Europe?
A growing debate is addressing the question of how should industrial capacity in Europe be rebuilt after the 2008 crisis in order to avoid the risks of divergence across countries and regions. The challenge of developing new technologies and industries and the crucial role that could be played by state action at the national level […]