Cambridge-INET Institute and HCEO Chicago
Summer School 2014
Social Economics
The Cambridge-INET institute in collaboration with Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO) will hold its 2014 Summer School at the University of Cambridge from June 16-June 20, 2014. The theme of the Summer School is Social Economics. The organizers of the Summer School are Professor Steven N. Durlauf and Professor Sanjeev Goyal.
Economic activity takes place at the intersection of social structure and markets. This interaction between society and the market is crucial for an understanding of persistent social and economic inequality, the role of culture and identity, the place of institutions in economic development, and the emerging world of on-line social media.
This Summer School brings together internationally leading authorities to lecture on Social Economics. The aim is to provide state-of-the-art overviews of different aspects of the subject.
We will provide an intensive one-week experience that teaches the tools needed to study questions in social economics and also to communicate a sense of the research frontier in this area. The teaching of tools is of particular importance as the theoretical and empirical study of questions in this field call forth concepts drawn from mathematics and also from the other social and information sciences. The Summer School intends to break down barriers between theoretical, econometric and empirical work.
Summer School 2014 Lecturers and Lecture Titles:
Lawrence Blume, (Cornell University), "Economic models and Network Science".
Steven Durlauf, (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Intergenerational Mobility".
Armin Falk, (Bonn University), "Personality and Morality".
Sanjeev Goyal, (University of Cambridge), "Networks and Markets".
Shachar Kariv, (University of California, Berkeley), "Distributional Preferences".
Rachel Kranton, (Duke University), "Identity and Inequality".
Kaivan Munshi, (University of Cambridge), "Networks and Mis-allocation".
Lecturers will make formal presentations. These will be supplemented with paper presentations and poster sessions by students.
Venue: Moeller Centre, Cambridge
Registration fee: £250.00 (incl. accommodation, breakfast, and lunch)
How to apply?
Please send your application (research statement, a reference letter and CV) to Marion Reusch, Cambridge-INET Administrator, inet@econ.cam.ac.uk.
Application now closed.
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