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Title:The Great Moderation, the Great Panic and the Great Contraction Author(s):BEAN, CharlesDate:2010Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2010/02Abstract:This lecture examines the causes of the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession. On the macroeconomic side, the Great Moderation encouraged an overly optimistic assessment of risk. Combined with low interest rates, ...

Title:Development with Chinese Characteristics? Convergence and Divergence in Long-run and Comparative Perspective Author(s):POMERANZ, KennethDate:2011Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2011/06Abstract:Looked at in comparative perspective, among the most striking features of Qing political economy are the combination of highly commercialized agriculture with the strength of peasant land use rights – both through smallholding ...

Title:Keeping Government Secrecy Safe: Beyond Whack-a-Mole Author(s):CURTIN, Deirdre EUI affiliated

Date:2011Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2011/07Abstract:The concept of secrecy as a mechanism for not providing government information, on the one hand, and the commitment to openness of government, on the other, reflect certain historical understandings of the relationship ...

Title:Dignity, Rights and Responsibilities Author(s):WALDRON, JeremyDate:2010-10-28Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2010/05Abstract:Last year (March 23, 2009), the government in the United Kingdom issued a Green Paper entitled “Rights and Responsibilities: Developing our Constitutional Framework.” In it, the authors (Jack Straw, Secretary of State for ...

Title:Punishment, (Neo)Liberalism and Social Democracy Author(s):LACEY, NicolaDate:2012Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2012/02Abstract:In this lecture, I address recent attempts to understand the relevance of political forces and institutions in shaping the practice and the social meaning of punishment. I focus on one argument about the relevance of the ...

Title:"My brain made me do it" (when neuroscientists think they can do philosophy) Author(s):DENNETT, Daniel C.Date:2011-01-01Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2011/01Abstract:Some philosophers and neuroscientists have recently been saying that science shows that we don't have free will, but it turns out that this claim-which would be bad news if true-is due to misrepresentation and misinterpretation. ...

Title:Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary Author(s):LEVINE, David K. EUI affiliated

Date:2009Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2009/03Abstract:Behavioral economics is an effort to bring psychological and emotional aspects of human behavior into economic theory. Critics of existing theory, including many psychologists and behavioral economists, poorly understand ...

Title:Simulacrum and Re-enactments: the experience of Pompeii in the nineteeth century Author(s):BEARD, MaryDate:2010Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2010/01Abstract:This lecture traces the changing experience of visiting Pompeii through the nineteenth century. It argues against the standard idea that there was a shift over the century from a Romantic view of the site to a more ...

Title:No margin, no mission? : a field experiment on incentives for public service delivery Author(s):ASHRAF, Nava; BANDIERA, Oriana; JACK, B. KelseyDate:2014Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2014/08Abstract:We conduct a field experiment to evaluate the effect of extrinsic rewards, both financial and non-financial, on the performance of agents recruited by a public health organization to promote HIV prevention and sell condoms. ...

Title:Viral engagement : fast, cheap, and broad, but good for democracy ? Author(s):FUNG, Archon; SHKABATUR, JenniferDate:2013Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI MWP LS; 2013/04Abstract:In 2011 and 2012, several high profile campaigns spread with unexpected speed and potency. These “viral engagements” include the mobilization that scuttled the Stop Online Piracy Act, popular protest against the Susan G. ...

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