Recent publications
21 October 2024
A new article by Xavier Timbeau, titled “The Lack of Interest in Economics for the Challenge of the Century”, is published in the journal of Economics and Statistics, 543, 2024. Abstract The publication of a thematic section on the environment gives us an opportunity to assess the position of environmental issues within economics. On one level, vacancies for economists published by the American Economic Association (the Job Openings for Economists (JOE) Network) suggest that the net increase in vacancies for positions related to the environment comes from establishments that are not central to the academic economy and that such vacancies […]
14 October 2024
A new article by Olivier Borraz, titled “Authoritarianism as a Bureaucratic Phenomenon”, is published in The Tocqueville Review 45:1, 115-125, 2024.
10 October 2024
A new review of Tine Gade’s 2022 book “Sunni City. Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese Revolution”, (Cambridge University Press), by Petra Samaha was published in Mondes Arabes journal 2024, 5(1), pages 203–209.
10 October 2024
A new policy brief by Silvia Cafora, Jacopo Lareno Faccini, and Tommaso Vitale titled « Policies to Decommodify and Revive the Right to Housing in Italy » was published on the page of Fondazione Feltrinelli. Abstract While the Charter of Fundamental European Rights declares that housing is a fundamental good for leading a dignified life (2002, Art. 34.3), in Italy, the right to housing is not enshrined in the Constitution. The only normative reference is the Constitution’s Article 47, co. 2, which attributes to the Republic the task of favouring the access of popular savings to property. In Italy, the housing culture is based on the principle of home ownership as […]
10 October 2024
A new article titled “Autonomie des formes urbaines et périls de l’évolutionnisme” by Côme Salvaire was published in Varia, vol. 34, 2024.
News
5 October 2023
The RC21 Conference will take place in Santiago de Chile from 24 to 26 July 2024. The call for session proposals is open until 10 October 2023. More information at https://rc21conference2024.coes.cl/sessions-abstracts-proposals/
29 March 2023
We share below the letter signed by numerous International Faculty and Researchers regarding the Government of India’s decision to suspend Centre for Policy Research’s (CPR) registration. — Letter from Concerned International Faculty and Researchers As researchers and scholars with a deep interest in India, we are shocked and dismayed to learn thatthe Government of India has suspended Centre for Policy Research’s (CPR) registration under theForeign Contribution Regulatory Act. Coming on the heels of the Income Tax survey conducted onCPR last year, this action is clearly aimed at undermining a leading research institution andjeopardising its existence. It also sets a dangerous […]
13 March 2023
Entretien avec Laurent Fourchard, RFI. https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20230301-nigeria-le-vainqueur-de-la-pr%C3%A9sidentielle-bola-tinubu-tend-la-main-%C3%A0-ses-rivaux
13 March 2023
Nous vous signalons la publication d’un podcast en italien autour de son livre intitulé ‘La convivialità urbana nei quartieri di Milano, Bologna e Roma: Un’analisi mixed-method sulle Social Street‘ paru en 2022.
13 February 2023
T07P23 – Are cities fit for the climate crisis ? Assessing transformative change through Climate Action Plans and GHG inventories The panel seeks to understand how and to what extent GHG inventories and their components produce effects of their own across different policy sectors, such as energy, food and transportation, or whether they will adjust to attune to their respective complexities. Moreover, attention will be drawn to evolving relationships between the governing and the governed as part of GHG inventories and local climate action plans, by focusing on the concrete modes of governance through which they are formulated and implemented, […]