Guest Lectures
The Lectures are high-level, scholarly talks reserved to students in the MSc in Economic and Social Sciences on topics relevant to the program. They are intended to expand the views of students and to stimulate their intellectual curiosity.
Upcoming Lectures
- 22 October
The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Inequality and Poverty Across Generations in Europe
Jean-JacquesHallaert International Monetary Fund - 5 November
Karl Marx: 200 years on
Roberto Veneziani The London School of Economics and Political Science - 12 November
On Institutions: The philosophy of living together
Francesco Guala University of Milano
- 6 November
Causation and the Mind: On the origins of economic facts
Mattia Gallotti London School of Economics and Political Science - 20 November
The Great Leveler: Economic inequality from the stone age to the future
Walter Scheidel Stanford University
- 24 October
Postwar Game and Decision Theory: A historical perspective
Nicola Giocoli Università di Pisa - 21 November
Understanding Global Inequality
Branko Milanovic The City University of New York - 28 November
Taking History Seriously: Causality and patterns in evolutionary systems
Telmo Pievani Università degli Studi di Padova
- 5 October
The Problem of Causality in Economics
Francesco Guala Università degli Studi di Milano - 26 October
From Market Output to People’s WellBeing:The OECD “Beyond GDP” agenda
Marco Mira Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- 13 October
A New Perspective on the History of Macroeconomics
Kevin D. Hoover Duke University - 10 November
Understanding Causation: A statistician’s view
Fabrizia Mealli Università degli Studi di Firenze
- 17 March
Imaginary Hands. Adam Smith’s Anti-System
Sergio Cremaschi Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro"
- 8 May
Famines in Economics and History
Cormac Ó Gráda UCD University College Dublin
- 25 November
About Causation: Cases of Evolutionary Contingency
Telmo Pievani University of Padova