During Covid-19, a great deal of rethinking of economics was underway across the globe. The invited essay for Cancer Control 2021, heralds a conversation between different disciplines and professionals. Like many complex problems, cancer needs new economic approaches which take seriously a nation’s industrial foundations and its gaps in regulation. This evolutionary, institutional economics structures … Read more
November 2022 provides an opportunity to engage two diverse audiences in innovation and development. The first keynote, Nov 15th, at the Open University UK, one of the world’s largest universities by student enrollment, and a unique digital footprint in addition to its rising research profiles, will have senior administrators, faculty, and students interested in the … Read more
On November 18, at London Global Cancer Week (LGCW) 2021, the India team of the Innovation for Cancer Care in Africa project (ICCA) presented the context of the India economics and policy research and the need to discard the metaphor of the so-called “War on Cancer”. The panel that followed included cancer specialists of different … Read more
A look at the pandemic through the lens of ‘Market Menagerie’. How far does popular discussion take us in facing Covid-19?
Bringing together highly innovative minds to deliberate about the future course of economics as a discipline of knowledge and to identify opportunities for bridging sub-domains.
Meet the members of the ‘ideas bank’ of the G20, Task Force 1: the official engagement group bringing leading think tanks and research centers together worldwide.
“The economics discipline is deeply fractured. This is an enormous problem today and it affects not only how we tackle Covid-19, but also climate change, biodiversity, energy challenges, financial crashes…What students are being taught does not capture the enormous advances in evolutionary institutional analyses that have been made.”
“At the moment, the market for a Covid-19 vaccine is, in principle, infinite and there has been all kinds of frantic activity to be the first to market. …It is really important to have some clarity on what types of markets are required and why.”
In September 1989, the Berlin Wall, separating West Berlin and East Germany, fell. In the subsequent wave of enthusiasm, a new political economy of Europe took shape.
“We argue that such value-neutrality requires closer analysis because the neo-Schumpeterian thinkers do appear to acknowledge that capitalism itself is an uneven, dynamic process. The relationship between the vital dynamism of such analysis of technological change and the context of its description of power relations and value deserves further attention.”