Carsten Sprenger: ‘For Us, the Conference on Financial Economics is the Event of the Year’
The Second International Moscow Finance Conference took place recently at the HSE International College of Economics and Finance. Carsten Sprenger, Head of the HSE Laboratory of Financial Economics and one of the conference’s organizers, told us about the event.
‘A Politician Is Someone to Study, Not a Client’
Alexey Zakharov, Associate Professor in the department of Advanced Mathematics in the HSE Faculty of Economics, is a member of the Committee of the European Political Science Association - a professional community of specialists who apply a variety of different methods in their analysis of the field as it is understood today.
Academic of the United Europe
Oleg Budnitsky, Professor at the HSE Department of Political History, became a member of the Academia Europaea.
Crisis Has a Big Cleaning Impact, but This Cleaning Hasn’t Happened
Yaroslav Kuzminov, Rector of the HSE, spoke about the new wave of the crisis, Russia’s readiness for it, and the system of public pharisaism among the powerful.
Uncertainty in the Global Economy
On October 9th, a seminar on the state of the global and monetary economy took place at the Higher School of Economics. Evgeniy Yasin shared his thoughts on this topic.
Marx Was Right, but Not Completely
On October 10th, 2012, Professor Ronald Inglehart, Academic Supervisor of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, spoke at the Open Seminar meeting at the HSE Saint Petersburg Faculty of Sociology. In his lecture he spoke about why Karl Marx’s forecasts will never come true and how culture alters the modernization process.
Just What Yasin Prescribed
Evgeniy Yasin, Academic Supervisor of the HSE, in an interview with “Itogi” spoke about the years of transition in the Russian economy and his own role in the transformations that took place.
ASEEES Award for Carol Leonard
Carol Leonard, Head of the HSE Department for Spatial Development and Regional Studies, has received the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) award.
HSE Experts have Become Members of a Council under the Russian Government
The list of members of the Expert Council under the RF Government has been approved. Its 200 members include staff from the Higher School of Economics.
School of Cross-Cultural Management
‘Management in Developing Markets: Trends and Strategies’ was the topic of an international summer school which took place at the HSE Faculty of Management. Irina Volkova, organizer of the school and professor at the HSE Department of General and Strategic Management, told us about the event.