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.
WeiterlesenReinhilde 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.
WeiterlesenOn 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.
WeiterlesenBranko 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?
WeiterlesenFollowing 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.
WeiterlesenAfter 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.
WeiterlesenThe 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.
WeiterlesenIn her essay "We", Judith Kohlenberger addresses the questions this word raises.
WeiterlesenOn 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".
WeiterlesenOn 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).
WeiterlesenThe 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.
WeiterlesenNicholas 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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