Brasília, 18 April 2021.
Dear colleagues,
This is the selection of free webinars for this week about political economy, public policy and business-government relations.
Please, observe the time zones, and thanks for all the suggestions.
Best regards,
Arthur Wittenberg.
Monday, 19 April
10:00am – 11:00am (EDT) – Harvard – Empowering Audiences Through Solutions Storytelling: a Communications Workshop with award winning documentary filmmaker Gabre
11:45am – 1:45pm (CT) – Chicago – George Stigler 50 Years Later: Revisiting The Theory of Economic Regulation
1:30pm – 2:30pm (BST) – Institute for Government – How can the civil service develop the right skills?
4:00pm – 5:30pm (BST) – LSE – The Technological Revolution in Financial Services
Tuesday, 20 April
9:00am – 10:00am (EDT) – Harvard – UK Government Policy towards social media platforms and lessons for the US
11:45am – 1:45pm (CT) – Chicago – George Stigler 50 Years Later: Revisiting The Theory of Economic Regulation
5:15pm – 6:15pm (BST) – Oxford – Oxford Spring School public lecture: Using Twitter for Social Science Research
Wednesday, 21 April
10:00am – 1:00pm (EDT) – Columbia – Columbia’s Flagship Data Science Day 2021
10:00am – 11:30am (EDT) – Columbia – The Future of State-owned Oil & Gas Companies in Latin America
2:00pm – 6:00pm (CEST) – CEPR – Adam Smith Workshop Spring 2021
3:30pm – 4:30pm (BST) – Institute for Government – Public services after the pandemic: how to scale up successful changes
4:30pm – 5:54pm (PDT) – Stanford – When Beijing Goes to Washington: Autocratic Lobbying Influence in Democracies
4:30pm – 5:45pm (EDT) – Harvard – Harvard Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy: Kelsey Jack, University of California, Santa Barbara
Thursday, 22 April
9:15am – 6:00pm (EDT) – MIT – Social Media Summit
10:00am – 11:15am (BRT) – Georgetown – Advancing Women’s Leadership in Politics and Peacebuilding
1:00pm – 2:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology
2:00pm – 6:00pm (CEST) – CEPR – Adam Smith Workshop Spring 2021
4:00pm – 5:30pm (BST) – Canning House – Covid-19 in Latin America: April 2021 Update
Friday, 23 April
2:00pm – 3:00pm (BST) – Oxford – Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change, and how can it be fixed?
2:00pm – 6:00pm (CEST) – CEPR – Adam Smith Workshop Spring 2021
9:00pm – 10:00pm (EDT) – Harvard – China Social and Economic Symposium | Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment Forum
Arthur Wittenberg 