On Friday, May 28 2021, the team of Rethinking Economics Nijmegen is proud to present the 3rd installment of NextGen Economists: this time we are joined by Daniel Aronoff (PhD candidate, MIT).

Recent developments in cryptography & ledger technology have made the implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) possible. Daniel will discuss these developments and how they relate to the shadow banking system, which his current research focuses on.

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How can behavioral insights help us improve environmental policy? Claes Ek (Gothenburg University, Sweden) will tell us exactly that: his research found that behavioral interventions led to a 10% reduction in unsorted waste in two Swedish municipalities.

Curious to learn more about the intersection of Behavioral & Environmental Economics? Join us online on March 8th, 12:30-13:30 CET. You can sign up via the signup form of Rethinking Economics Nijmegen or send an email to nextgen@rethinkingeconomics.nl

For our third lecture of the Rethinking Economics Amsterdam Lecture Series, we are proud to welcome professor Anwar Shaikh! Through this lecture on Classical Political Economy, we hope to introduce students to how the ideas and methods of economists like Adam Smith and David Ricardo have been misinterpreted, and how they’re still relevant today!

Professor Shaikh’s work has culminated in his monumental textbook, Capitalism: Competition, Conflict Crises, where he rebuilds micro and macroeconomic theory on the basis of classical political economy, and shows how empirically they are excellent predictors of real-world economic phenomena.

Professor Shaikh’s lecture will be held on 18:00 CET until 20:00 CET, and will have a live Q&A session in the end!

In the last 20 years behavioural economics has questioned and replaced many mainstream economic assumptions of perfect human rationality and the homo economicus. Now, we want to hear from professor Esther-Mirjam Sent how behavioural economics has changed the economic profession for the better or maybe worse?

After a 40 minute lecture we will discuss these and many more of your own questions in a Q&A with Ms Sent.

For our first lecture of the Rethinking Economics Amsterdam Lecture Series, we are proud to welcome professor Irene van Staveren! Through this lecture on 10 almost forgotten economists, we hope to open the door for people to see economics not as a singular homogenous subject, but a diverse, pluralistic, and rich field.