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On February 16 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE.  Alexander Yarkin (HSE) spoke on 'The Great Divergence Revisited: Industrialization, Inequality and Political Conflict in The Unified Growth Model'.

On December 22 a research seminar on ‘Mathematical Methods of Decision Analysis in Economics, Business, and Politics’  took place at HSE. Panos M. Pardalos (CAO, University of Florida, USA  & LATNA, Higher School of Economics, Russia) spoke on ‘Constrained Subspace Classifier for High Dimensional Datasets’.

On December 22 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE. Vasily Rusanov (HSE) spoke on 'Minorities and Business: the Case of Russian Old Believers'.

The only way to detect weaknesses in one’s own ideas is to expose them to criticism from colleagues, says Eric Maskin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007, Chairman of the HSE International Advisory Committee, and the head of the Department of Mathematics (Faculty of Economic Sciences), chief researcher at the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis. The HSE news service recently spoke with him and Fuad Aleskerov, head of the Laboratory, about the the value of other people's opinions, joint research projects and opportunities for international cooperation in our time.

On December 09 a research seminar on ‘Mathematical Methods of Decision Analysis in Economics, Business, and Politics’  took place at HSE. Eric Maskin (Harvard University and HSE) spoke on ‘Social Choice Theory with a Poverty Line’.

On December 08 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE.  Oxana Bondarenko  (CEFIR) spoke on 'The Effect of Movies on Pro-social Behavior'.

On December 08 a research seminar on ‘Mathematical Methods of Decision Analysis in Economics, Business, and Politics’  took place at HSE. Herve Moulin (Donald J. Robertson Chair of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow) spoke on ‘Fair Division and Counterfactual-proofness’.

On November 24 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE.  Vera E. Troeger (University of Warwick) spoke on 'The Politics of Strategic Budgeteering'.

On November 17 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE. Kemal Kivanc Akoz (NYU Abu Dhabi) presented the report on 'Political Change Driven by a Dissident Elite: The Effect of Rents from Power and Information'.

On November 10 a research seminar on political economy took place at HSE. Shintaro Miura (Kanagawa University) presented the report on 'Manipulated News Model: Electoral Competition and Mass Media'.