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 [...]

Hi everybody! As you know, I am very busy writing my doctoral dissertation to write an exclusive post to the blog right now. Anyway, as I am discussing the ideological question in the postmodern approach, I just found this debate between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, which I would like to share with you. Have [...]

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 [...]

As I have no time to write now, I give you Quino, the excellent Argentinian cartoonist, and a day in the life of a Latvia’s civil-servant. Or of most of Latvia’s universities…

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 [...]

Finally the Latvian society is waking up for the problem of plagiarism. There’s a good article on today’s Diena about this issue. Dealing very often with plagiarism from my RSU students, I’m more and more convinced that it’s the result of three problems (have to say that our department is very serious and effective in this [...]

It’s a long time since I posted my last comment. A lot of thing contributed to that. I’ve spent two months in Brazil, among other things. But for now on, I’m back. For this first post after my immense holidays, I’m not going to discuss economics or politics, but rather a problem is annoying me [...]