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.
WINIR contributed funding to Barbara Allen‘s award-winning documentary about the lives and work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom. The world premiere took place during WINIR 2017 in Utrecht.
Browse the full academic programme of the WINIR Symposium on Property Rights. Download the symposium brochure. Click links to download papers (members only).
The WINIR Symposium on Property Rights featured keynotes by Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), Gunnar Heinsohn (University of Bremen, Germany) and Larissa Katz (University of Toronto, Canada).
WINIR SYMPOSIUM ON PROPERTY RIGHTS (BRISTOL, UK, APRIL 2016) — Property rights are a central institutional feature of all politico-economic systems where markets play a major role, and a key item of political controversy between liberal and socialist positions. The role of property rights in matters ranging from interpersonal exchange, power and innovation to corporate governance, privatisation and economic development is debated across several academic disciplines, including economics, history, law, philosophy, politics and sociology.
Browse the full academic programme of the WINIR Symposium on Corporations. Download the symposium brochure. Click links to download papers (members only).