Harvard Club: Transatlantic Relations Post-U.S. Presidential Elections
The Harvard Club of Austria invites the Schumpeter Society to join their upcoming event “Two Days After the U.S. Presidential Inauguration: Perspectives on Transatlantic Relations and Europe’s Challenges” taking place at Schönherr Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Schottenring 19, 1010 Wien (Library Area)) on Wednesday, 22 January 2025 at 18:00 CET.
Former Austrian Ambassador to the U.S. Martin Weiss will offer his perspectives on transatlantic relations and the key challenges Europe may encounter in the aftermath of the U.S. presidential elections.
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Thanksgiving Dinner
The Rotary Club Vienna invited the Schumpeter Society to co-host a Thanksgiving Dinner to take place at Intercontinental Hotel Vienna (Johannesgasse 28/U4 Stadtpark) on November 28th. Ambassador Eva Nowotny will share her views on the topic of Transatlantic Relations after U.S. elections.
To register for the event, please contact Mr. Hermann Jungmayr, Club Secretary of the Rotary Club Vienna (rcviennamariatheresia@rotary.at)
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SCHUMPETER LECTURE WITH BART VAN ARK
Bart van Ark is Professor at the Alliance Manchester Business School based at the University of Manchester and Director of the Productivity Institute (https://www.productivity.ac.uk/). At the invitation of the Schumpeter Society, van Ark discussed the role of productivity in the age of rapid technological change, and why, despite of that, advanced economies have the lowest productivity growth rates since the Second World War.
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Lecture with Reinhilde Veugelers
Reinhilde Veugelers is a professor at KULeuven (BE), Senior Fellow at the Bruegel think-tank and member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Science and Academia Europeana. Following an invitation from the Federation of Austrian Industries (IV) and the Schumpeter Society, Veugelers discussed the challenges many countries face in reconciling the various objectives of a green industrial policy, especially when these aims conflict with each other.
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Interview with Branko Milanović in Die Presse
On May 15, 2023, an interview with ex-World Bank chief economist Branco Milanović was published in Die Presse. In his interview with Die Presse, Milanović discusses inflation in the 1920s and the extent of its influence on our current economic situation and political development.
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Schumpeter Lecture by Branko Milanović
Branko Milanović is Research Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at CUNY and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Following the invitation of the Schumpeter Society, he discussed Schumpeter's theories of Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy for the first time in Schumpeter's home country and compared them with the economic circumstances of today. He posed the question of why Schumpeter's predictions did not come to pass and how correct our current predictions may prove 80 years hence?
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SCHUMPETER LECTURE WITH PHILIPPE AGHION
Following an invitation by the Schumpeter Society, Philippe Aghion presented his book The Power of Creative Destruction for the first time in Vienna. In a passionate talk, Aghion took the audience on a tour through his publication.
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SCHUMPETER PRIZE 2022 AWARDED TO MARGRETHE VESTAGER
After a corona-induced break of two and a half years, the annual Schumpeter Prize was awarded to Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on 19th of May 2022.
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GENERAL MEETING 2022
The Annual General Meeting of the Schumpeter Society Vienna took place on 14th of January 2022. After the General Assembly, originally scheduled for December, had to be cancelled due to the regulations in force during the lockdown as a face-to-face event, it was now conducted online.
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"WE"-Book Publication
In her essay "We", Judith Kohlenberger addresses the questions this word raises.
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COPY OF COLLOQUIUM "CENTRIFUGAL FORCES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM"
On 4th of November 2019, the Schumpeter Society Vienna organised an academic colloquium in honour of its long-standing President, former Federal Chancellor Dr. Franz Vranitzky, on the premises of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) with the title: "Centrifugal Forces in the European Union and What To Do About It".
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SCHUMPETER PRIZE 2019 AWARDED TO GEORGE SOROS
On the 21st of June 2019 at 6 p.m., the ceremonial presentation of the Schumpeter Prize 2019 by Governor Prof. Dr. Ewald Nowotny, President of the Schumpeter Society, to George Soros took place at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB, Kassensaal).
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SCHUMPETER AWARD 2016
The Joseph A. Schumpeter Prize 2016 was awarded on 9th of November 2016 in the City Senate Meeting Room of the Vienna City Hall. The couple Mr. CHEN Hailun and Mrs. JIN Haifen, the founders and managing directors of Hailun Piano Co.,Ltd, one of the world's largest manufacturers of pianos, were honoured.
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SCHUMPETER PRIZE 2015 AWARDED TO ECONOM LORD NICHOLAS STERN
Nicholas Stern, the prestigious and world-renowned economist Univ. Prof. from the London School of Economics and winner of the 2015 Joseph A. Schumpeter Prize, reiterated his view yesterday evening in Vienna at the award ceremony held at the Austrian National Bank, that investments in low-carbon technologies are currently beneficial due to low interest rates and relatively high unemployment rates.
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