Environment
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Changing of the Guard
PlenaryApr 4–7, 2013
The Institute for New Economic Thinking held its annual plenary conference in Hong Kong from April 4-7, 2013 at the InterContinental Hotel in Kowloon. The event discussed Asia’s emergence in the global economy and other core issues.
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Conference paper
Something for Everyone: Building Incentives for Innovation Ecosystems
Apr 2013
Healthy innovation economies are the main driver of prosperity in the 21st century. But the three players that have traditionally sponsored basic research and invention in those economies are no longer willing or able to perform that role.
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Growth Adjustment and Convergence in Asia: The Challenge Ahead?
Apr 3, 2013 | 08:20—09:15
The developed economies of Europe, North America, and Japan are facing tremendous challenges related to indebtedness and stagnation. How will the developing economies of Asia respond to this challenge as they reorient their growth strategies to meet the rising aspirations oftheir people?
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Intersubjectivity: René Girard's Vision of Mimetic Desire and Economic Dynamics
Apr 3, 2013 | 10:45—11:15
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Innovation Systems
Apr 3, 2013 | 09:15—10:15
The Foundations of Economic Prosperity: The Lessons of Innovation Process and History
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Conference paper
Scarcity, Preferences and Cooperation: A Mimetic Analysis
Apr 2013
In “The Ambivalence of Scarcity” which is my contribution to L’Enfer des choses. René Girard et la logique de l’économie, written by Jean-Pierre Dupuy and originally published in French in 1978, I attempt to apply mimetic theory to modern economics and to economicphenomena, and also to explain why economic issues and economics as a discipline occupy such an important place in the modern world.
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Conference paper
David Sainsbury: Innovation Systems
Apr 2013
A striking feature of the neoclassical economic theory which has been dominant in Western universities in recent years is that it has had so little to say about innovation and innovation policy which is useful for policy-makers.
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Conference paper
Crisis and the Sacred
Apr 2013
It would be nonsensical to blame economists for not foreseeing the crisis; even less for causing it. It was obvious there would be a crisis. It was impossible to foresee how it would start and evolve, and at what moment these events would occur.
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Conference paper
Individual Judgments, Social Values, and Mimetic Interactions
Apr 2013
The problem of value has always occupied a central place in economic thought and debate.
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Years granted:
2012, 2013
Greening Economic Growth: How can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness?
This research project explores the relationship between environmental regulation, innovation, and competitiveness through a meta-analysis, which extracts key implications for economic thinking and future research, and unique datasets on patented “environmental” inventions.
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Grantee paper
Poisoning the Well, or How Economic Theory Damages Moral Imagination
Oct 2012
Contemporary mainstream economics has widely “poisoned the well” from which people get their ideas about the relationship between economics and ethics.
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Grantee paper
Are Women Really More Risk-Averse than Men?
Sep 2012
While a substantial literature in economics and finance has concluded that women are more risk averse than men, this conclusion merits reconsideration.
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Grantee paper
Would Women Leaders Have Prevented the Global Financial Crisis? Implications for Teaching about Gender, Behavior, and Economics
Sep 2012
Would having more women in leadership have prevented the financial crisis?
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Grantee paper
Is Dismissing the Precautionary Principle the Manly Thing to Do? Gender and the Economics of Climate Change
Sep 2012
Many public debates about climate change now focus on the economic “costs” of taking action.
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Conference paper
Material intensity, productivity and economic growth
Apr 2012
Many models of economic growth exclude materials from the production function. Growing environmental pressures and resource prices suggest that this may be increasingly inappropriate.