Reveries

One Saturday, after hearing a conference at SSE Riga, Jānis Ošlējs and I started to talk how would be great to have a conference discussing economic development beyond the ideological approaches common to Latvia. So, we started working on it, we added Jānis Grēviņš to the team, and here we are. The conference’s speakers are [...]

During the academic year 2009/2010 the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga in cooperation with the Embassy of Finland and the Embassy of Sweden intend to offer a series of lectures on various aspects of the ”Nordic Model” and its eventual relevance for the Baltic countries. The first lecture in this series focuses on: The lecture discusses [...]

Prof. Ha-Joon Chang is going to give a conference in SSE-Riga. He’s recognized as one of today’s leading heterodox economists. Focussing on development economics, he has published a number of critical studies examining the economic policy rich nations as well as international institutions such as the World Bank have advocated for less developed countries. The conference’s [...]