"The program seeks to engage questions of economics, religion and culture across the social sciences"

The theme of this year's conference is "Surplus, Solidarity, Sufficiency" We encourage, however, scholars and students in all disciplines, activists and artists working in areas that intersect with Marxism to submit proposals on themes other than those proposed above. Participants can present in...

The subject of the conference is "The Status of Economics after the Crisis". Social economics is devoted to research on the ethical foundations and implications of economic analysis and policy. We invite proposals for papers which address question such as: - Status of the discipline - Economic...

The workshop aims to bring together researchers and graduate students from neuroscience, behavioral decision making and marketing to provide: methodological training for students a state of the art overview in the nascent field of decision neuroscience for students opportunities to network with...

Following on INCS's 2008 theme, "The Emergence of Human Rights," this conference will focus on "the pursuit of happiness," that elusive corollary to life and liberty. What form did happiness and the comprehension of happiness take in the nineteenth century? How, for example, did the legacy of...

The field of "psychology and economics" focuses on systematic deviations from the standard economic model and asks how they affect important economic decisions such as savings, investment, labor supply, or purchase decisions. To do this, "behavioral economics" builds upon insights from a variety...

At the founding of the UN in 1945, political and business leaders as well as scholars shared the conviction that commerce could play an important role in fostering peace. Half a century later, with the emergence of the interlocking global economy and the enormous new reach of business, the...

The issues include, but are not limited to, the role of frontiers in institutional change: - New property rights to physical and intellectual property. - New political and legal structures. - New production organization and government arrangements. - The process of institutional change in these...

We have previously hosted several Post Keynesian and Institutionalist Graduate Workshops, while this year’s “heterodox” summer school aims to incorporate Institutionalist, Post Keynesian, and Feminist traditions.