Events
Week of Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Cornelia Metzig (Imperial College)
Monday Lunch Seminars Cornelia Metzig (Imperial College)
"Scaling and Evolutionary Growth in a Macroeconomic Agent-Based Model" abstract I present a simple stock-flow consistent macroeconomic agent-based model for the production cycle, composed of firms, households and a financial sector. Competition of firms in the markets generates a stochastic process for firm evolution, which can be described theoretically. Results are several interrelated distributions for…
Seminars in Politics and Society Bea Cantillon (University of Antwerp, Antwerpen)
Seminars in Politics and Society Bea Cantillon (University of Antwerp, Antwerpen)
"Reconceptualizing the welfare state. An empirical investigation of its growing symbiosis and contradiction with capitalism in rich European democracies." abstract The welfare state is often seen too narrowly as a 'moral economy': capitalism with a social face, forged by harsh social conflict. However, the welfare state is also an important way to support the capitalist…