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Το Εργαστήριο Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής (ΕΚοιΠ) του τμήματος Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής του Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου διοργανώνει ανοιχτή συζήτηση με θέμα: «Κοινωνική Πολιτική, Πανδημία και Δημοκρατία», την Πέμπτη 7 Απριλίου 2022 στις 18.00 στο Αμφιθέατρο Σάκη Καράγιωργα ΙΙ στο Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο. Εισαγωγικό Σχόλιο / Συντονισμός: Δέσποινα Παπαδοπούλου, Καθηγήτρια, Πρόεδρος Τμήματος Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής Χαιρετισμός: Σταύρος Μαυρουδέας, Καθηγητής, Διευθυντής Εργαστηρίου Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής...

from C. P. Chandrasekhar While the world remains preoccupied with the geopolitical and humanitarian fallout of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, its economic consequences are increasingly a matter for concern. Though the two countries at war account for less than two and one half per cent of the world’s population, it emerges that the damage to production within their boundaries and the suspension of their trading relationship with rest of the world threatens a crisis in multiple markets,...

I’ve decided to migrate my regular newsletter from Mailchimp to Substack. Having done that, it seems worthwhile to try out Substack as a blogging platform. For the moment, I’ll post here at johnquiggin.com in parallel with the Substack blog. My first substantive post is over the fold. I’m hoping for good discussion, so it would be great if commenters here could also take part at Substack. I’ve published a couple of articles in The Conversation this week. The first, on a...

Please click here to support this journal and the WEAissue no. 99download whole issue Keynes’, Piketty’s, and an extensive failure index:Introducing maldevelopment indicesJorge Buzaglo and Leo Buzaglo Olofsgård           2 Externalities, public goods, and infectious diseasesSpencer Graves and Douglas Samuelson           25 An essential journey back to the seeds of prosperity in a time of pandemics: Notes for a renewed agenda in development studies Fernando García-Quero and Fernando López...

from Peter Radford Fascinating. The war in Europe is messing with some major preconceptions and exposing some as illusions that, perhaps, we would be better off without. Take, for instance, The Economist magazine’s leader article entitled “Trading with the enemy.”  Here’s the key question the article poses: “Is it prudent for open societies to conduct normal economic relations with autocratic ones, such as Russia and China, that abuse human rights, endanger security and grow more...

from Dean Baker There has been much press around President Biden’s demands that China not support Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. The implication of these demands is that the United States has the ability to punish China economically in a way that imposes more pain on China than on us. That may be true for now, but it’s not clear it will be true much longer, and it may not even prove to be true at present. It is common to refer to China as the world’s second largest economy, after the...