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Prague Conference on Political Economy 2012

“Interdisciplinarity, The Future of Social Sciences?”

CEVRO Institute

Prague, October 26-28 2012

The purpose of the 2012 Prague Conference on Political Economy is to gather papers that will focus on the challenges that multidiciplinarity brings to social sciences and policy-making in the beginning of the 21st century. Both theoretical and empirical papers are expected not only to address the current state of the discipline but also to envisage new perspectives for its development. The conference will welcome papers discussing issues at the intersection of economics, law, political science, history, philosophy, and other humanities.

More specifically, some of the research questions the participants might address are:

- Law-and-economics in the 21th century

- Austrian Economics and mainstream solutions to economic crises

- Libertarian paternalism and “NUDGE” and public policy

- Do social scientists need more interdisciplinarity or not?

- Heterodox approaches vs. the mainstream in social sciences

- European integration at the crossroads,

- Challenges to economic freedom measurement – China  and the Nordic Model

Participants to the  PCPE 2012 will have the opportunity to attend the symposium celebrating the seminal work and the 80th birthday of GUIDO CALABRESI, professor at Yale and Judge of  the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The topic of the symposium will be “Law and Economics as an Applied Science. The Legacy of Guido Calabresi”. During this symposium, lectures will be given by JULES COLEMAN, Yale University; ENRICO COLOMBATTO, Università di Torino; MARC GEISTFELD, New York University; JAMES HACKNEY JR., Northeastern University; LAURA KALMAN, University of California at Santa Barbara; ALAIN MARCIANO, Université de Montpellier 1; STEVE MEDEMA, University of Colorado; GIOVANNI B. RAMELLO, Università del Piemonte Orientale; KIP VISCUSI, Vanderbilt University; and BRADLEY WENDEL, Cornell University.

Location

The Conference will take place in the quaint and newly reconstructed building of the CEVRO Institute (school of legal and social studies) in the heart of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.

Submission Procedure

Please submit abstracts of your papers to josef.sima@vsci.cz.   The deadline for submission is June 30, 2012. Decisions will be made by July 15, 2012.

http://www.cevroinstitut.cz/en/Section/pcpe/ 

Program committee

Josef Šíma, CEVRO Institute

Giovanni Ramello, University of Eastern Piedmont

Alain Marciano, Université de Montpellier 1

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Grove City College announces a faculty opening in the Department of History beginning in August 2012. A Ph.D. in History preferred with focus in modern history, specifically European and/or non-Western.  Interest in history of minorities a plus.  Responsibilities include teaching courses in those areas and interdisciplinary humanities courses in the College’s core curriculum. This position also will assist in developing and guiding student research opportunities for history majors.

Candidates must evidence a strong record of classroom teaching, scholarship within their field, and a commitment to instructing highly motivated students (1244/1600 average SAT for entering freshmen). Rank and salary are commensurate with qualifications. Grove City College is a nationally recognized, truly independent, highly selective college of liberal arts, sciences, and engineering where intellectual inquiry remains open to the questions religion raises and affirms the answers Christianity offers.

Send letter of application, vita, transcripts, names of four references (three professional and one pastoral), a brief statement of how you would engage undergraduates in your research plans, and a four to five paragraph essay relating your philosophy of a liberal arts education and teaching history to the College’s unique mission as a Christian college (see www.gcc.edu) to: William P. Anderson, Jr.; Ph.D., Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Grove City College, 100 Campus Drive, Grove City, PA 16127-2104 or electronically to laklaiber@gcc.edu.  Review of applications commences immediately.  In a continuing effort to enrich its academic and social environment, the college actively encourages applications from members of all ethnic groups.

Grove City College is a private educational institution noted for its academic excellence where scholarship is informed by Christian principles. It does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, creed, sex, marital status, disability, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other college-administrative programs.

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