A Conference and a Summer School
November 15, 2008
Here are a couple of (unrelated) events that might be interesting for philosophers and historians of economics.
The first is a conference on Mechanisms and Causality in the Sciences, 9-11 September 2009 at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. More info at: http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/2009/macits/
The second is the first of a newly launched series of summer schools “CES Critical Economics Summer School” organized by the Centre for Social Studies, Associate Laboratory of the University of Coimbra. The theme of the first edition to be held in Coimbra, 6-9 July is “The Institutional Foundations of the Economy: Property, Markets and Public Policy.”
I was unable to find their website, so for those interested here is more detailed info. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize
October 13, 2008
13 October 2008
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 to
Paul Krugman
Princeton University, NJ, USA
“for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity”
Full press release: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2008/press.html
