WINIR YOUNG SCHOLARS WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY (ONLINE, MAY 2023) — Rapid technological progress has the power to unlock human potential while simultaneously disrupting social, political, legal, and economic processes. Institutional paradigms urge a reconsideration, to evaluate our understanding of the relationship between humans and technology/machines, and whether technology is itself an institution.
WINIR is pleased to sponsor a session on what institutional theory can teach us about the connections between inequalities and Liberties at the 21st Annual Conference of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica, STOREP), to be held at the University of Milan, Milan, Italy, on 27-29 June 2024.
In 2018 WINIR sponsored two sessions on how to think about transaction costs in the digital age at the 15th Annual Conference of the Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica (Italian Association for the History of Political Economy) held at University of Genoa in Italy.
In 2017 WINIR was a contributing partner and with the Witten Institute for Institutional Change (WIWa) led a session on how institutionalism can influence tomorrow’s economics at the Festival for New Economic Thinking preceding the INET Conference in Edinburgh.
In 2017 WINIR sponsored a session on institutional economics – focusing on how institutions function, evolve, evaluated, and transformed – at the 58th Annual Conference of the Società Italiana degli Economisti (Italian Economic Association) held at University of Calabria in Italy.
The WINIR sponsored Third Conference of the Forum for Institutional Thought on “Institutions and Survival: Institutional Transformations in Politics, Law and the Economy.” Researchers, PhD candidates, students, policymakers, and practitioners are invited to participate in the international conference from 19-20 June 2026 at the University of Białystok (and online).
In 2024 WINIR will sponsor a second international conference of the Forum for Institutional Thought on the theme of “Institutions & Survival”. This event will be held at the University of Bialystok in Bialystok, Poland, with the aim of showcasing the latest developments in institutional economics to an audience of research and teaching staff, PhD students, politicians, activists, and entrepreneurs from Poland and abroad.
In 2023 WINIR sponsored the Fifth London Workshop on Institutional Issues organised by the Friday Association for Institutional Studies – a collective including members of the Birkbeck Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies (CPEIS), the Centre for New Economic Transitions at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (CNET) and the Institute for International Management at Loughborough University London.
In 2020 WINIR sponsored the a mini-series of online workshops jointly organized by the Institute for International Management (Loughborough University London), the Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies (Birkbeck University of London), and the Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies (University College London).
In 2019 WINIR sponsored the Sixth Conference on Applied Economics organised by the Postgraduate Program of the Department of Economics at the University of Thessaly in Greece. Papers dealing with the economic, business, cultural, social and institutional structures underpinning the knowledge economy were welcome.