Talk to INET’s YSI Live 11am New York time today

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I’m giv­ing a talk on Debunk­ing Eco­nom­ics, and the future of eco­nom­ics, to the INET Young Schol­ars Ini­tia­tive at 11am New York time today (5pm Cen­tral Euro­pean time). The Young schol­ars have kind­ly agreed to let me open this event up to read­ers of this blog. Below is a bit more infor­ma­tion about YSI from the organ­is­ers, and the login details for today’s talk.

The pur­pose of the Young Schol­ars Ini­tia­tive is to find ways to sup­port new eco­nom­ic thinkers at the ear­li­est stages of their career tra­jec­to­ry, from grad­u­ate stu­dents to new junior fac­ul­ty through to new­ly tenured fac­ul­ty. So far a social media plat­form and a face­book group have been formed in an attempt to vir­tu­al­ly recre­ate the ener­gy and momen­tum gen­er­at­ed at INET’s Berlin con­fer­ence this April.

A side event to this con­fer­ence orga­nized by stu­dents invit­ed promi­nent speak­ers for infor­mal con­ver­sa­tions and three days of intense dis­cus­sions. For many of the 250 par­tic­i­pat­ing grad­u­ate stu­dents, PhD stu­dents and post-docs it was a remark­ably revi­tal­iz­ing event, as many lack the com­mu­ni­ty to open­ly dis­cuss new eco­nom­ic ideas and meth­ods.

Giv­en the suc­cess of this phys­i­cal ven­ture, YSI have now estab­lished reg­u­lar so called vir­tu­al vis­its with new eco­nom­ic thinkers, such as Steve Keen today. If you are inter­est­ed in learn­ing more about who we are come par­tic­i­pate in the talk today at 5 pm Cen­tral Euro­pean Time, and join our face­book page and Ning plat­form.

To par­tic­i­pate in today’s talk, click on this Link  (the pass­word is “debunk­ing”)

If you are a young schol­ar your­self and would like to par­tic­i­pate in the the YSI, con­sid­er join­ing the Face­book group “INET YSI Com­mons”: http://www.facebook.com/groups/378629278823493/

There is also a Ning plat­form: http://ysi-commons.ning.com/