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Young Scholars Initiative

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We envision economic thinking that is free of intellectual barriers, resonates with reality, and serves our global society. Initiative of @INETeconomics.

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Call for Registration!!! SARChI Industrial Development and Young Scholars Initiative are pleased to invite you to the Fifth Young Scholars Conference on Structural Change and Industrial Policy in Africa 2025. 4–5 June 2025, Hybrid - Madibeng building, APK, Johannesburg 🔗lnkd.in/d9NthykB

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To get AI under control, we need to use AI to augment workers' capacities, not replace them, argues economist Anton Korinek. Eventually, though, we need to rethink the nature of work altogether. See the full article, co-authored with Joseph E. Stiglitz: ineteconomics.org/perspectives/b…

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🧠 What about the freedom to think? 👉 InvisibleEconomy.org 👈 From data surveillance to algorithmic control, Rohinton Medhora challenges us to reconsider human rights in the digital era.

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Clickbait isn't evil if you have something important to say. 🙂 Lynn Parramore knows how to get your voice heard. Listen to the full workshop at ysiproject.org/ideas

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"If you can survive Mao Zedong, you can survive anything. These universities will be around a long, long time." 👉 youtu.be/Sr8DVMQsyxs 👀 William C. Kirby Harvard University explores what happens when the state tightens its grip on higher education, from Cold War America to today’s China.

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Living abroad is challenging! 😱 Letícia Lispector is from Brazil and studied economics at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, but is now doing a remote MBA in Project Management. 💫 She’s currently working at a multinational in Hungary, but may not stay there much longer. Many

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Does unchecked capitalism lead to authoritarianism? John Cassidy shares Karl Polanyi’s 1930s warning that capitalism & democracy might be incompatible in convo w/ Lynn Parramore about his book, Capitalism and Its Critics. Macmillan Publishers The New Yorker ineteconomics.org/perspectives/b…

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What drives people to move across borders? 🌍 Jonathan Kempe is building a prototype Global Migration Atlas using ArcGIS Online, pulling from UN and World Bank data to map patterns of movement around the world. He’s testing a compelling migration model developed by Prof. Samir

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Mexico is paralyzed! ⛔ Edgar Pérez Medina talks with us about the impact of recent trade policies directly from the US-Mexico border. As a master’s student in Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), he's following the developments closely.

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Most people don't think about China the right way. 👀 Here's Adam Tooze with a thought-provoking perspective on the 'new world order' at the Berlin Summit 2025. Thank you to Forum New Economy for such an inspiring event!