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.
Five articles have made the shortlist for the 2023 Elinor Ostrom Prize, which will be announced at the WINIR Conference on Institutional Innovation & Evolution in Catania, Italy (20-23 September 2023. The award will be announced at WINIR 2023 in Catania, Italy.
WINIR YOUNG SCHOLARS PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGY & INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE (CATANIA, ITALY, SEPTEMBER 2023) — Technological development has become a driving force in shaping and transforming societies, revolutionizing their structures, processes, and governance mechanisms. The complex dynamics between technology and institutional change is today a vital area of interdisciplinary research, involving economics, geography, law, sociology, philosophy, politics, among other disciplines.
WINIR WORKSHOP ON REGULATION & THE COMMON GOOD (SHEFFIELD, UK, OCTOBER 2023) — For better or for worse, in a range of policy areas, justifications for regulation are framed in the language of market failure or its counterpart government failure. By contrast, the point of departure of much socio-legal scholarship is the recognition that societal issues cannot be reduced to this dichotomy.
Videos of the keynotes given by Virgil Storr, Deirdre McCloskey, and Richard Langlois, along with a video of the remembrance session featuring Ludwig Lachmann’s former students, were produced by the event’s generous sponsor.
Browse the full academic programme of the WINIR Conference on Polycentric Governance & the Challenges of the 21st Century. Download the conference brochure. Click links to download papers (members only).
The WINIR Conference on Polycentric Governance & the Challenges of the 21st Century featured keynotes by Elizabeth Baldwin (University of Arizona, USA), Tine de Moor (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Harini Nagendra (Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India).
WINIR CONFERENCE ON INSTITUTIONAL RESILIENCE & RECOVERY (PITTSBURGH, USA, SEPTEMBER 2024) — The resilience of governance systems, particularly their ability to respond to and recover from crises (such as economic downturns, political instability and upheaval, or environmental calamities), stands at the forefront of institutional research…
WINIR CONFERENCE ON INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION & EVOLUTION (CATANIA, ITALY, SEPTEMBER 2023) — Understanding when institutions change, how institutional innovations are propagated and how institutional evolution occurs, are key theoretical and empirical questions that have long shaped institutional research in…
The WINIR Conference on Institutional Innovation & Evolution will feature keynotes by Eric Beinhocker (University of Oxford, UK), Geoffrey M. Hodgson (Loughborough University London, UK) and David Sloan Wilson (Binghampton University, USA).