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"Rethinking the Corporation:" a 20th Century History of the Firm by Naomi Lamoreaux on Video

By Jens Prüfer

In her keynote lecture titled " Rethinking the Corporation: Contestable Control, the Theory of the Firm, and the Importance of Historical Perspective ," Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University) gave a surprising historical account of the corporation as organizational form. While...

Jean Tirole on video: "Narratives, Imperatives and Moral Reasoning"

By Jens Prüfer

The keynote lecture of Jean Tirole (Toulouse), given at the annual SIOE conference in Montreal in June 2018, titled " Narratives, Imperatives and Moral Reasoning ," and based on joint work with Roland Bénabou and Armin Falk, is now available in our video channe l. After...

Computational Social Science - video of Duncan Watt's keynote talk

By Jens Prüfer

Last week we put up a video of Matthew Jackson's keynote speech at SIOE 2017 at Columbia University. Now, here is the second keynote lecture: Duncan Watts (Cornell University and Microsoft Research) is speaking about "Computational Social Science: Exciting Progress and...