Posts Tagged ‘Economic governance’
Marx and the lions
Last Friday, I saw « Marx reloaded » in a smallish, convivial cinema room at ICA in London. A thought-provoking documentary, starting straight from the right questions: now that we are facing the worst economic and financial crisis in 70 years, are we still sure our way of organising production and exchange is the best available? Alternatives […]
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Tags: Economic analysis, Economic crisis, economic development, Economic governance, Emerging countries, Globalisation, History of economics, Political theory, social theory, Sociology
My first paper with Juliette Rouchier has finally come out in the Proceedings of the 4th and 5th UK Social Networks Conferences! You can find it here. We develop an agent-based model of opinion diffusion in a social network, using data collected by Emmanuel Lazega and Lise Mounier on the advice network of judges at […]
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Tags: Agent-based models, Economic governance, Intra-organisational networks, Network Analysis, Networks and Markets
The potential trade-off between commercial expansion and social goals is emphasised in comments of the current microcredit crisis in India –not least a well-informed FT article (subscription required) a few days ago. It has in fact been a recurrent theme in microfinance since the end of the 1990s. While consensus is that microfinance should strive […]
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Tags: economic development, Economic governance, Inter-organisational Networks, Microfinance, Philanthropy, poverty alleviation, Public policy analysis
Networks & microfinance
Networks between organisations -this is the object of a conference I am co-organising on Global Partnerships in Microfinance, to be held at the University of Greenwich, London, on 6-7 September 2010. Microfinance aims to alleviate poverty -and should do so, it is widely believed today, in a sustainable fashion. To achieve this, microfinance institutions collaborate […]
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Tags: Economic analysis, economic development, Economic governance, Inter-organisational Networks, Microfinance, Networks and Markets, Philanthropy, poverty alleviation
Here is my second presentation at Sunbelt XXX -this time, with Emmanuel Lazega, Lise Mounier and Tom Snijders:
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Tags: Economic governance, Intra-organisational networks, Network Analysis, Networks and Markets
What is heterodox economics?
At a conference on economic governance last week, “heterodox economics” was mentioned, and a colleague from another discipline asked what is meant by this expression. The standard answer (also heard the other day), is that heterodox economists share a strong opposition to neoclassical theory but belong to diverse schools of thought, ranging from post-Keynesian and […]
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Tags: Behavioral economics, Economic governance, economic methodology, Experimental economics, randomized trials
Economic Governance Slides
Again on economic governance and networks… this is just to say that my slides for tomorrow’s presentation are available below, while the paper is to be found here:
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Tags: Economic governance, Intra-organisational networks, Networks and Markets
With my long-time co-authors Emmanuel Lazega and Lise Mounier, we have just drafted a new paper on issues of economic governance, based on a case study of the Commercial Court of Paris and using social network analysis as a tool. The paper will be presented next week at a conference on Economic Governance hosted by […]
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Tags: Economic governance, Intra-organisational networks, Network Analysis
