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Lindau, Germany,
5th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences
5. Lindauer Tagung der Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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Boat Trip to Mainau Island: Vice-President of the Council Wolfgang Schürer, Anka Wittenberg (SAP) and Cafer Tosun (SAP) from right
An Economics student in Coleman Hall on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on June 6, 2012. (Jay Grabiec)
In his keynote speech on Saturday, 8 March 2014, Mr. Dean Karlan, Professor of Economics, Yale University, and Founder, Innovations for Poverty Action, focused on the translation from research to action and provided examples from three randomized evaluations in the area of entrepreneurship and financial inclusion for youth.
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Congratulations to the Barcelona GSE Class of 2014!
Graduation Ceremony at AXA Auditorium
July 10, 2014
Barcelona GSE Alumni & Friends:
The Barcelona GSE Economics Trobada is an annual event for BGSE Affiliated Professors to meet new colleagues and to hear about the latest research across the community.
Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 6th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the eighth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union.
At the southern tip of the Jutland Peninsula, Hamburg stands on the branching River Elbe at the head of a 110 km (68 mi) estuary to the North Sea, on the mouth of the Alster and Bille. Hamburg is one of Germany's three city-states alongside Berlin and Bremen, and is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The Port of Hamburg is Germany's largest and Europe's third-largest, after Rotterdam and Antwerp. The local dialect is a variant of Low Saxon.
The official name reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League and a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. Before the 1871 unification of Germany, it was a fully sovereign city state, and before 1919 formed a civic republic headed constitutionally by a class of hereditary Grand Burghers or Hanseaten. Beset by disasters such as the Great Fire of Hamburg, North Sea flood of 1962 and military conflicts including World War II bombing raids, the city has managed to recover and emerge wealthier after each catastrophe.
Major regional broadcaster NDR, the printing and publishing firm Gruner + Jahr and the newspapers Der Spiegel and Die Zeit are based in the city. Hamburg is the seat of Germany's oldest stock exchange and the world's oldest merchant bank, Berenberg Bank. Media, commercial, logistical, and industrial firms with significant locations in the city include multinationals Airbus, Blohm + Voss, Aurubis, Beiersdorf, Lufthansa and Unilever. Hamburg is also a major European science, research, and education hub, with several universities and institutions, including the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Laboratory DESY. The city enjoys a very high quality of living, being ranked 19th in the 2019 Mercer Quality of Living Survey.
Hamburg hosts specialists in world economics and international law, including consular and diplomatic missions such as the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the EU-LAC Foundation, and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, multipartite international political conferences and summits such as Europe and China and the G20. Former German chancellors Helmut Schmidt and Angela Merkel were both born in Hamburg. The former Mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, has been the current German chancellor since December 2021.
Hamburg is a major international and domestic tourist destination. The Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 2015.Hamburg's rivers and canals are crossed by around 2,500 bridges, making it the city with the highest number of bridges in Europe, and with 5 of the world's 29 tallest churches standing in Hamburg, it is also the city with the highest number of churches surpassing 100 metres (330 ft) worldwide. Aside from its rich architectural heritage, the city is also home to notable cultural venues such as the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle concert halls. It gave birth to movements like Hamburger Schule and paved the way for bands including the Beatles. Hamburg is also known for several theatres and a variety of musical shows. St. Pauli's Reeperbahn is among the best-known European red light districts.
Here are some new economics titles that have been purchased over the past couple of months. Place your cursor over a book's cover to receive more information. Click on the "Check for availability" link in the note to see a book's status in the Library's online catalog.
For the 5th anniversary of Poland accession to the EU, a group of the students of the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz bring the biggest EU flag in the world, 20m x 30m, to the European Parliament in Brussels © European Parliament / Pietro Naj-Oleari
Faux Bio: Amelia is an adjunct professor at Emerson University. She has published two novels, "Incessant Breakdown", and the critically acclaimed "Words and Webs", scholarly articles appearing in The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, and innumerable short stories. Amelia lives on a farm with her two Beagles, two great Danes and her Boston Terrier.
Milwaukee public school teachers, parents, students and supporters staged a large picket line outside MPS administration building on Vliet Street on Milwaukee's west side late Tuesday afternoon.
The purpose was to protest yet another round of funding cuts to K-12 schools in Milwaukee. Classrooms and students are already suffering the effects of previous cuts including desks that are falling apart and books with spines that need to be taped together. Currently, Milwaukee, a mainly African-American and Latino city, spends less money per pupil than other, richer suburbs like Wauwatosa and Shorewood. Milwaukee is the state's largest school district.
Governor Scott Walker shares at least part of the blame for the messy situation. Over the past few years he's cut $1BN from the state's education budget, including $792 million from K-12 schools. Supposedly, some of that will be restored this year due to a budget surplus. Of course, the teachers aren't holding their breath that this will actually happen. At the same time he was cutting funds for public education, Walker was using some of that money to pay for tuition to privately run charter schools.
Other proposals for dealing with the budget shortfall include ending busing programs thereby forcing students to take public transportation, shifting more health care costs onto employees, and closing schools altogether.
What's happening in Milwaukee is similar to what has been happening in school districts all across the country symbolized by teacher strikes and walk-outs in states like West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky and lately Arizona. Public schools are being deprived of cash and devalued in favor of privately operated charter schools that are not accountable to the public. Our students are being reduced to mere commodities for someone else to make a profit off of. And a real education be damned.
So the priorities are obvious. Walker will give untold sums of money to Foxconn to build a plant in Racine County. Supposedly, this will create a lot of jobs; but that's what the politicians always say because they think that will win them votes come election time. There is some doubt that Foxconn can uphold its end of the bargain. In the meantime, money that went to Foxconn could be used to fund public education.
And then we have the city of Milwaukee. The owners of the Milwaukee Bucks cry poor mouth. Can't make money in the Bradley Center anymore. We need a new arena or we're moving the team to another city. So the city ponies up to placate the poor owners. I read it was $250 million in public funds for a private stadium. Think that $250 million wouldn't make a difference for Milwaukee public schools? And so it goes in this era of privatization and greed run rampant.
The "Trobada" is a yearly academic gathering of Barcelona GSE affiliated professors and external research fellows, providing the opportunity to share new developments and research in progress across different economic fields.
Recap and videos of Barcelona Graduate School of Economics "Trobada" X
"This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. In it, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern conceived a groundbreaking mathematical theory of economic and social organization, based on a theory of games of strategy. Not only would this revolutionize economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded — game theory — has since been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations. And it is today established throughout both the social sciences and a wide range of other sciences."
Quote from the intro to the 60th anniversary edition.
"Teach a parrot the terms "Supply and Demand" and you've got an economist"
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NHH, in English sometimes also referred to as the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, was founded in 1936. NHH is an acronym for Norges Handelshøyskole. Ever since its foundation, it has been a bastion of higher education in economics and business administration in Norway. NHH was ranked as the 18th best European business school in 2005.
6 June 2017 - OECD Forum 2017. Inclusive Growth & Globalisation
Moderator:
Thomas Bernt Henriksen, Economics Editor and Commentator, Borsen
Scene Setting:
Gabriela Ramos, Chief of Staff, G20 Sherpa & Special Counsellor to the Secretary-General, OECD
Speakers:
Tim Costello, Chief Advocate, World Vision Australia
Hans Dahlgren, State Secretary to the Prime Minister, Sweden
Colin Hay, Co-Director, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI); Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris, France
Lizette Risgaard, President, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO)
Rodrigo Valdés, Minister of Finance, Chile
Alfredo Thorne Vetter, Minister of Economy and Finance, Peru
OECD Headquarters, Paris, France
Photo: Hervé Cortinat/OECD