The chosen theme for the 3rd International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity is: “The great transition: degrowth as a passage of civilization”

The demographic development of many industrialized countries has motivated a tightening in public pension benefits and eligibility rules; confronted with less generous social security systems, senior citizens are asked to take active and complex decisions in order to guarantee their living...

The conference is thus meant to stimulate further research and to create an opportunity for discussions of topics such as the following: - objectives of portability and optimal design of portability rules, - conceptual issues arising in different sub-fields, old-age provision and health care in...

The Summer School is open to PhD students and early-career researchers working in particular in the field of institutional economics and evolutionary analysis. However, in the spirit of the EAEPE research areas, contributions from many other fields, including human development, environmental...

The object of study is institutions created or transformed with the primary function of providing solidarity and assistance. To delimit the field of investigation, which is particularly broad, reference will be made to those institutions that played a significant role in the area in which they...

Topics of interest include among others: - Objective Measures of Well-being: HDI, ISEW, GPI, versus GDP - Subjective Measures of Well-being: Happiness, Satisfaction, Mental Health, versus Income - Alternative and New Measures of Well-being both at macro and micro level - Leisure Time, Social...

The Annual ESPAnet Conference 2009 focuses on the future of the welfare state. More precisely it will address paths of social policy innovation highlighting existing constraints, path dependencies and opportunities of social policy change. The conference provides a forum to address theoretical...

The themes of the Conference include all areas of comparative economics and related disciplines treated in a comparative perspective. New approaches to comparative economics, analysis of the various forms of capitalism, institutions and different models of development, trade, monetary and...

Topics of interest include: - happiness and social interactions in the production and consumption spheres - interpersonal climate, organizational performance and worker satisfaction - implicit prices of quantity and characteristics of social interactions - experimental studies of personalized...