25-June-2019
English
Data and Democracy - Catherine Rampell
Data and democracy and attacks on the integrity and credibility of official statistics.
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6-May-2019
English
The Future of Capitalism - Sir Paul Collier
In the 1840s and the 1930s, capitalism has come off the rails. This time it has opened deep rifts within all major economies between a booming metropolis and broken provincial cities, and between a rising class of the college-educated with new skills, and a falling class of the less-educated with manual skills.
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15-April-2019
English
New Analytical Tools and Techniques for Economic Policymaking
A timely opportunity for policymakers, academics and researchers in economics to discuss the state-of-the-art policy applications emerging from the new analytical tools and techniques that can be applied to economic policymaking.
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4-April-2019
English
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work - Richard Baldwin
Trade and technology are reshaping the world of work once again. They shifted workers from farms to factories in the 19th century and from factories to offices in the 20th century. Today, globalisation and robotics (“globotics”) are disrupting service-sector and professional jobs at an eruptive pace. Digital technology is training “white-collar robots” to take over many service-sector and professional jobs.
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20-March-2019
English
The Knowledge Economy - Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Roberto Unger argues, similarly to the OECD, that the contemporary knowledge economy has been “confined” to small parts of the population and to a minority of firms and places. The emergence of alternatives will require not simply new ways of regulating the knowledge economy and a retrospective redistribution of its fruits, but rather a thorough, democratising reconstruction of the market economy itself.
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12-February-2019
English
Why Big Data Needs Small Data: The Billion Prices Project - Roberto Rigobon
Economic measurement is a first order issue for nations that intend to evaluate their impact and control their economies. Most of the official measurements are based on surveys. A hybrid approach - big data and small data - to contract national statistics can improve upon the survey approach using the Billion Prices Project at MIT.
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11-February-2019
English
Recent Trends in Global Income Distribution and their Political Implications - Branko Milanovic
Branko Milanovic discussed the evolution in global income inequality and focused on its political implications; in particular, the rise of the middle class in Asia, income stagnation of the rich countries’ middle classes, migration as part of globalization, and the emergence of a global top 1 percent.
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22-January-2019
English
Towards a New Social Contract - Maurizio Bussolo
Maurizio Bussolo is one of the authors of the World bank report Toward a New Social Contract which calls for a fundamental rethinking of policies to ease the growing divide between those who benefit from new economic opportunities and those who are left behind in an ever-more flexible economy.
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21-January-2019
French, PDF, 594kb
Programme des séminaires NAEC - jan-mai 19
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21-January-2019
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10 years after the failure of Lehman Brothers: What have we learned?
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