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EVENTS

CSES Seminar Series presents:

Upcoming:

Thursday, March 8, 4:00pm
Uris Hall, Room 302

Paromita Sanyal, Cornell
"The Gift-Economy of 'Gram Sabhas': Redistributive Development in Indian Village Democracies"
paper (.pdf)


Recent:

Randall Morck's Feb. 10th seminar "Adoptive Expectations: Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms"
paper (.pdf) download video of talk

Filippo Barbera's Feb. 16th seminar "Cultural Trauma and Institutional Change: the Rise of Quality in a Regional Wine Production Market"
paper (.pdf) download video of talk


NEWS


Victor Nee is Co-PI on a new grant (with Sonja Opper PI & Håkan Holm Co-PI) from the Handelsbanken Foundation, Sweden entitled "Firms and Politicized Capitalism: A Longitudinal Study of China's Private Enterprise Economy"


Forthcoming, Spring 2012
Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China
Victor Nee and Sonja Opper (Lund University)
Harvard University Press, available May 14, 2012

Cover of Capitalism from Below>
Since the 1980s, the rapid growth of a private enterprise economy in China has enabled more than 630 million Chinese to escape poverty. Nee and Opper describe how capitalism bubbled up from below to emerge as a dynamic engine of economic growth, wealth creation, and manufacturing jobs.


CU Sociology graduate student, Scott A. Golder's manuscript, "Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Tracks Work, Sleep and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures" was published in Science, September 2011.


Working Papers recently added:

Richard Swedberg - “The Role of Confidence in the European Debt Crisis”

Michael Spiller, Douglas Heckathorn, et.al.- "Sampling, Fielding, and Estimation in the 2008 Unregulated Work Survey"

Jun Ando - “Dual-Earner Couples’ Housework Behavior in Japan: Exchange, Display, or 'Her Money'?”

Håkan Holm, Victor Nee & Sonja Opper - “Entrepreneurs Under Uncertainty: An Economic Field Experiment”

Jun Ando - “Husbands' Housework Sharing Behavior in Japan: Field Experiments on Identity and Gender Display”

Richard Swedberg - “The Household Economy: A Complement or Alternative to the Market Economy?”

Christopher Yenkey - “Building Markets from Ethnically Fractionalized Networks: Recruiting New Investors into Kenya’s Nairobi Stock Exchange”


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Undergraduate Concentration in "Business, Networks and Institutions" began Fall 2011
course requirements and registration form


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