Prospects and Challenges for a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) in Canada: What Have We Learned So Far?
Science Building (SCI) 1177 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, CanadaJoin us for an economics colloquium featuring four speakers.
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Economics, Philosophy and Political Science
Peasant Strategies Towards Consumption Risk: Potential Lessons for Economic Development From Medieval England
Arts Building (ART) 1147 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, CanadaThis talk will present evidence for the effectiveness of peasant strategies toward subsistence risk and that such strategies ultimately shaped many aspects of the Medieval English economy.
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The Persistence of Economic Outcomes Over the Very Long-run: The Coevolution of Cooperation and Punishment Norms
Arts Building (ART) 1147 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, CanadaThis presentation reviews the growing persistence literature with the goal of motivating a focus on the historical roots of economic development.
Labour After Socialism: A Comparative Perspective
Arts Building (ART) 1147 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, CanadaExplore how workers and trade unions have followed very different trajectories since the end of the Cold War and collapse of state socialism.
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From the Anti-Confederates to Wexit: Regional Alienation and Federal Transfers in Canada
Arts Building (ART) 1147 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, CanadaDr. Trevor Tombe from the University of Calgary surveys the history of various fiscal transfer programs, exploring their scale, scope, and design, using comprehensive data from Confederation to the present.
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Roger W. Gale Symposium in Philosophy, Politics and Economics: The Misinformation Age
Online virtual eventThe Economics, Philosophy and Political Science Department in UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences presents the next Roger W. Gale Symposium in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Free
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The Roger Watts Debate: Be it resolved that the government should have the ability to make vaccination mandatory
Online virtual eventJoin us for the Roger Watts Debate, a provocative discussion on public health and governmental power.
Rebooting Human Rights in a Datafied World
Online virtual eventThe Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science invites the community to join Dr. Wendy H. Wong for her talk, Rebooting Human Rights in a Datafied World.
Economics Speaker Series: The Determinants and Impacts of Historical Treaty-Making in Canada
Online virtual eventThe Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Sciences invites you to a lecture from Dr. Donna Feir.
The Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science presents: A Dynamic Theory of Deterrence and Compliance
Online virtual eventYou are invited to a talk from Dr. Ken Carlaw, Dr. Clifford Bekar and Dr. Curtis Eaton about Dynamic Theory of Deterrence and Compliance.
Economics Speaker Series: Carbon Pricing Costs for Households and the Progressivity of Revenue Recycling Options in Canada
Online virtual eventThe Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science invites you to attend a talk with Dr. Jennifer Winter.
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Political Science Speaker Series: Immigrants’ political involvement: Do political preferences and actions transfer across pre- and post-migration contexts?
Online virtual eventIn this talk, Dr. Eline A. de Rooij tries to answer To what extent our political preferences and actions transfer from one country to another.
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Political Science Speaker Series: Quasilegality, Migration, and Borderwork in Niger
Online virtual eventYou are invited to attend Dr. Philippe M. Frowd's talk, as part of the Political Science Speaker Series.
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The Roger Watts Debate: Be it resolved that the Emergencies Act is justifiably used to quell civil disobedience
Online virtual eventJoin us for the Roger Watts Debate, a provocative discussion on public defiance being declared under the Emergencies Act.
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Roger W. Gale Symposium in Philosophy, Politics and Economics: A Wicked Problem: Individual Freedoms and Climate Change
Online virtual eventThe Economics, Philosophy and Political Science Department in UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences presents the next Roger W. Gale Symposium.
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Hindu Nationalism Before Modi
Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, CanadaYou are invited to a talk by Dr. Vinay Sitapati where he provides the backstory of India's Narendra Modi.
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The Charter at 40: Landmark Cases in Four Decades of Supreme Court Jurisprudence
University Centre (UNC) - Ballroom 3272 University Way, Kelowna, BC, CanadaJoin Justice Suzanne Côté's lecture in honour of the 40th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Political Science Speaker Series—Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs
Arts Building (ART) 1147 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, CanadaJoin the Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science in their three part Political Science Speaker Series.
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Political Science Speaker Series—Captive Market
Arts Building (ART) 1147 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, CanadaJoin the Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science in their three part Political Science Speaker Series.
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The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City
Arts Building (ART) 1147 Research Road, Kelowna, BC, CanadaThe Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science and the Department of History and Sociology invite you to attend a talk by Dr. Eli Friedman.
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