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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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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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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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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