Economy + Society PhD Summer School

Weather for the week of looks dry but a bit overcast and not very warm. Fingers crossed for a dry Wednesday for the walk to the Abbey and Thursday so that the public interview can be done outside on the terraces.

Open for applications: 2017

http://economyandsocietysummerschool.org/

Economy & Society Summer School - Summer Schools in Europe Week long residential summer school in a castle in rural Ireland, with core staff and visiting speakers leading an intensive interdisciplinary discussion on Economy + Society.

Economy & Society President Michael D Higgins Address

Bathed in sunshine Blackwater Castle hosting the E+S PhD Summer School 2017.

Great line-up for the 2017 Summer school: Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Really inspiring to see students thinking like this.

The Econocracy review – how three students caused a global crisis in economics Unhappy at how economics is out of touch with reality and defined by an elite, Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins sum up their explosive call for change

Hopefully a summer school escapes these pitfalls!

Six conference questions every academic hears Allan Johnson on the misunderstood B-sides of conference presentations

Some thoughts on the Ivory tower that the summer school is trying to move beyond...

University as an Intellectual Asylum - The Philosophical Salon Asylum today means both sanctuary from violence or oppression, but also a place of incarceration. The term originates from ancient Greek, where solun meant seizure, so asolun meant freedom from ... Read More

Another reason to return to theoretical debates about economics.

Economists versus the Economy If you believe that economies are like machines, you will likely view economic problems as essentially problems of mathematics. But the great economists throughout history, such as John Maynard Keynes and Joseph Schumpeter, have always understood that an approach emphasizing formal precision has sev...

We don’t have students any more – just customers Opinion: Irish higher education is increasingly commercial in its approach to teaching and research

A taste of the summer school - in the sort of glorious weather which is probable for the 2017 event.

Part 1/4 Economy + Society PhD Summer School 2016 Public Interview with Prof. Tom Inglis Part 1/4 Economy + Society PhD Summer School 2016 Public Interview with Prof. Tom Inglis, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin. In conversatio...

Save the date: Economy + Society Summer School 8-12th of May 2017