Russia faces a very specific and difficult challenge – the task of diversifying its economy, ending its heavy reliance on exports of oil, gas and other minerals. The new publication of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development looks in detail at policies that can help to achieve economic diversification. The report argues that sustainable long-term growth in Russia requires economic diversification to reduce the country’s dependence on natural resources. To achieve this, Russia needs to broaden and refocus its diversification strategy.

 

Being a hegemonic doctrine in the world politics, “democracy” does several things at the same time: it legitimizes the status quo of parliamentary republic, allows for imperialist interventions of NATO and US into affairs of periphery countries, and eventually provokes movements for “real” democracy, such as the global wave of protests in 2011-2012. However, as this wave of protests (including the US “Occupy” and the Russian “Fair election” movement) has shown, the grassroots democratic movement increasingly finds its limitation at the level of nation state.

 

The conference was organised by the Center for Environmental and Technological History in cooperation with Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies, Glasgow, UK.

Department of Economics invited academics, students and practitioners from Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union, although participants from the rest of the world to join the School. The main objective of the School is to disseminate knowledge and results of latest research in the area of Risk Management, Insurance, Finance, and related fields.

Ilya Segalovich is a co-founder of Russian search engine Yandex. He has been CTO and director of Yandex since 2000. Ilya proposed the name “Yandex” for the search engine, derived from the idea of “Yet Another iNDEX”.

In this lecture I'll tell about the progress of my new book Discourse and Knowledge by summarizing some results of the respective chapters of this multidiscpliinary study.

 

 

Not only were the sciences seen as producing different kinds of knowledge, then, but these epistemic variations could also be understood in terms of different patterns of work organisation and control that in turn depended upon particular societal and organisational contingencies. This implied that when these latter changed, so too should the patterns of intellectual authority and co-ordination and, eventually, research priorities, epistemic judgements and outcomes.  At least in principle, then, this

Summary: Regulatory forbearance of banks is a familiar theme in past crises yet it is hardly mentioned as a possibility in the US. Bank capital regulation relies heavily on banks’ own accounting valuation of their assets and contingent liabilities.

In 1968, Dominique Fache was an active participant in French student riots that went on to found the Sophia Antipolis technology park in 1972. From 1993-2003 he was the regional director of the Schlumberger Group in Russia and in the CIS countries. Today he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Russian energy company Enel OGK-5, created as a result of the Unified Energy System of Russia reforms.

Professor Cohen works at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris). He primarily conducts research on the forms history takes and varying concepts of power, especially the formation of leadership cults in the early 20th century in France, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Germany.

Mario Biagioli is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Science and Technology Studies (STS), and Director of the new Center for Innovation Studies in UC Davis.  At the Law school, he teaches courses on intellectual property in science, and on the history and philosophy of intellectual property.

Which countries most often produce scientists and researchers who collaborate on articles and patents? How is the global system of international cooperation constructed? With the proliferation of means of social network analysis, these relations are easily visualized though the construction of network maps of international collaborations. Despite the simplicity of the approach, the study of these networks can lead us to serious conclusions.

Specification of a model is one of the most fundamental problems in econometrics. In practice, specification tests are generally carried out in a piecemeal fashion, for example, testing the presence of one-effect at a time ignoring the potential presence of other forms of misspecification. Many of the suggested tests in literature require estimation of complex models and even then those tests cannot take account of multiple forms of departures.

Joost Schokkenbroek, professor at the Free University of Amsterdam and the curator of the National Maritime Museum of the Netherlands "The Renewed Maritime Museum: Choices, Changes and Consequences of a Major Museum Renovation"

Round-table discussion with Duncan Sparkes, Counselor for Trade and Economic Policy of the British Embassy in Russia. Mr Duncan Sparkes, Economic Counsellor at the British Embassy in Moscow, will lead a discussion with students about Russia's economic prospects and reform priorities, and Russia's engagement with the international economic institutions, including the G20, WTO and OECD. The discussion will be held in English.

Round-table discussion with Duncan Sparkes, Counselor for Trade and Economic Policy of the British Embassy in Russia. Mr Duncan Sparkes, Economic Counsellor at the British Embassy in Moscow, will lead a discussion with students about Russia's economic prospects and reform priorities, and Russia's engagement with the international economic institutions, including the G20, WTO and OECD.