Latest Documents - New Approaches for Economic Challenges

23-June-2021

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Remaking the post-COVID World - Damon Acemoglu

Labour markets and inequality in the post-Covid world. Daron Acemoglu’s research focuses on the political, economic and social causes of differences in economic development across societies; the factors affecting the institutional and political evolution of nations; and how technology impacts growth and distribution of resources.

17-June-2021

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Anthro-Vision - How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life - Gillian Tett

In an age when the business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett presents a radically different strategy for success: businesses can revolutionize their understanding of behaviour by studying consumers, markets, and organisations through an anthropological lens

16-June-2021

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Forecasting the Future for Sustainable Development

CEST, in collaboration with NAEC and the Young Scholars Initiative @ INET, organises a 3-day workshop to discuss new approaches to modelling and forecasting towards more sustainable goals. The event brings together young scholars and policymakers to discuss impact investing, SDGs and ESG impact evaluation, patent analytics, bibliometrics, and foresight methods.

10-June-2021

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Rethinking Productivity: Insights from Neuroscience

As part of the Neuroscience-inspired Policy Initiative this seminar explores how the latest innovations in neuroscience can help us unlock insights into how to optimise productivity.

11-May-2021

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Socio-economic Resilience: What is it and how can it be enhanced?

This inter-disciplinary panel discusses how to build and manage more resilient systems: one that places economics in relation to other critical fields such as the environment, engineering, science and politics.

28-April-2021

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A Systemic Recovery

The scale and scope of the existential problems we are facing are now evident. They are systemic and solving them will require rebuilding the whole system. This is the role of NAEC. Two years ago we looked at Systemic Collapse. NAEC has since been Confronting Planetary Emergencies with some of the world’s leading economists and will now facilitate a debate on policy approaches to develop the resilience necessary for a Systemic Recovery.

26-April-2021

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Symposium on Systemic Recovery

A Joint NAEC-OECD-Fields Systemic Recovery Symposium at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences bringing together world-leading experts on new analytical tools and techniques to help design and develop systemic recovery strategies.

25-March-2021

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Innovations to Address Women’s Brain Health Inequalities

As part of the OECD March on Gender initiative, this seminar looks into differences in neurological outcomes between men and women, supported by the NAEC Neuroscience-inspired Policy Initiative.

11-March-2021

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The Plague Cycle - Charles Kenny

The Plague Cycle reveals the relationship between civilisation, globalisation, prosperity, and infectious disease over the past five millennia. It harnesses history, economics, and public health, and charts humanity’s remarkable progress, providing a timely look at the cyclical nature of infectious disease.

25-February-2021

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The Deficit Myth? - Stephanie Kelton

Vice-president Dick Cheney famously boasted, “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” Was he right? Do deficits matter? Stephanie Kelton leads a debate on whether deficits matter and how we think about government spending today and the implications for future generations. Can deficits be used to sustain life and build a more just economy that works for the many and not just the few?