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Jacques Pelkmans, CEPS Brussels and College of Europe Bruges, Belgium - European Union single market: economic impact
Jacques Pelkmans, CEPS Brussels and College of Europe Bruges, Belgium - Health behaviours, economics of
Donald S Kenkel, Cornell University, USA - IQ and national productivity
Garett Jones, George Mason University, USA - Latin American economic development
Mauricio Cárdenas, Minister of Mines and Energy, Government of Colombia, Colombia and Steven M Helfand, University of California, Riverside USA - Observational learning
Lones Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA and Peter Norman Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Peter Diamond
Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics, UK
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Short films from the 2011 Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences now available.
Palgrave Macmillan and our colleagues from Nature Video this year attended the 4th Meeting in Economic Sciences at Lindau to meet and record conversations with Laureates and young economists.
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View a short film exploring the origins of the Economic Sciences meeting, alongside 2 interview-based films exploring the intellectual contribution of behavioral economics and offering new perspectives on the causes of the financial crisis here. |
Find out more about Palgrave Macmillan's partnership with the Lindau Nobel Laureate meetings and watch lectures and panel discussions from the August 2011 meeting here. Additional films of lectures recorded at the 2011 Economics Meeting lectures can be viewed by visiting the Lindau Mediatheque.
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