Adam Smith Seminar Winter/ Spring 2021

• The Winter/ Spring 2021 Adam Smith Seminar is organized by Manfred J. Holler (University of Hamburg & Center of Conflict Resolution, Munich) in cooperation with Eva Wolf (Center of Conflict Resolution, Munich) Gregor Berz (Institute for Applied Mechanism Design (IFAMD), Munich and Saarbrücken, & Center of Conflict Resolution, Munich), and Florian Rupp (Kutaisi International University & Center of Conflict Resolution, Munich).
• The talks will be given
  online Mondays from 17:00 (s.t.) to 18:30 Central European Time
  and hosted by IFAMD. Please contact Gregor Berz (gregor.berz -at- ifamd.de) for dial-in information.
• Recordings of the talks will be availiable at the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑] as well as via a link on this site.

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1 February, 2021:

Talk by Peter Emerson [↑] (Borda Institute) on "Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism: preferential decision-making for an inclusive democracy" Introduction by Shanti Chakravarty [↑] (University College of North Wales at Bangor) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑] Some recent publications of the presenter related to the topic: Emerson, P. (2020), Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism: preferential decision-making for an inclusive democracy Cham, CH: Springer-Verlag. Emerson, P. (2020), Can Rights Be Wrong? Towards a Less Majoritarian More Inclusive Democracy, Munich Social Science Review (New Series), Volume 3: 93-111. Emerson, P. (2017), So, What is Democracy Anyway? [↑] TEDxVienna (YouTube).

8 February, 2021:

Talk by Kaushik Basu [↑] (Cornell University) on "Why Have Leaders at All? Hume and Hobbes, with a Shot of Game Theory" Introduction by Matthew Braham [↑] (University of Hamburg) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑]

15 February, 2021:

Talk by Andreas Ditsche [↑] (Kutaisi International University, School of Management) on "Affiliate Marketing for Online Gaming - Insights into a Changing Market" Introduction by Florian Rupp [↑] (Kutaisi International University & Center of Conflict Resolution, Munich) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑]

22 February, 2021:

Talk by Houchang Hassan-Yari [↑] (Sultan Qaboos University, College of Economics and Political Science, & Center of Conflict Resolution, Muscat) on "Why can't the Islamic Republic of Iran be a 'normal' regime regardless of political changes in the United States or other democratic countries?" Introduction by Eva Wolf [↑] (Center of Conflict Resolution, Munich) Some recent publications related to the topic: Kenneth Katzman, "Iran's Foreign and Defense Policies" [↑] Mahmood Sariolghalam, "Prospects for Change in Iranian Foreign Policy" [↑] Mehran Kamrava & Houchang Hassan-Yari, "Suspended Equilibrium in Iran's Political System" [↑]

1 March, 2021:

Talk by Kenneth Binmore [↑] (University College London & University of Bristol) on "Crooked Thinking or Straight Talk" Introduction by Luciano Andreozzi (Universita degli studi di Trento) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑]

8 March, 2021:

Talk by George Tridimas [↑] (Ulster University) on "Inflated expectations of democracy: Abundance of problems and dearth of solutions" Introduction by Peter Brouwer and Klaas Staal [↑] (Karlstad University) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑]

15 March, 2021:

Talk by Charles A. Holt [↑] (University of Virginia & Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy) and Katri K. Sieberg (Universität Tampere) on "Bargaining, Fairness and Conflict" Introduction by Gari Walkowitz (Technical University Munich) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑]

22 March, 2021:

Talk by John Komlos [↑] (University of Munich) on "The actual headwinds in the U.S. economy after Covid" Introduction by Rigmar Osterkamp [↑] (Center of Conflict Resolution, Munich) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑]

29 March, 2021:

Talk by Stefano Dughera [↑] (University of Torino) and Alain Marciano [↑] (University of Montpellier) on "The costs of treating strangers as yourself. Cooperation, exploitation and the Samaritan's Dilemma" Introduction by Benoit Le Maux (Universite de Rennes) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑]

12 April, 2021:

Talk by Thomas Eger [↑] (Hamburg University), Armin Mertens [↑] (German Economic Institute), and Marc Scheufen [↑] (Ruhr-University Bochum & German Economic Institute) on "Citation Effects of Open versus Closed Access in Different Publication Cultures" Introduction by Manfred J. Holler [↑] (University of Hamburg & Center of Conflict Resolution, Munich) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑]

19 April, 2021:

Talk by Stefan Napel [↑] (University Bayreuth) on "Power and Social Choice in Weighted Committees" Introduction by Hannu Nurmi (University of Turku) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑]

26 April, 2021:

Talk by Ronald Wintrobe [↑] (Western University) on "How Economic (Wo)Man Got The Blues" Introduction by Mario Ferrero (Amedeo Avogadro University of Eastern Piedmont) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑]

3 May, 2021:

Talk by Heinz Kurz (University of Graz) on "Max Weber on the seeming paradox of world rejection and virtuosity of acquisition" Introduction by Peter Kalmbach (Bremen University) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑]

10 May, 2021:

Talk by Cuneyt Yenigun [↑] (Sultan Qaboos University, College of Economics and Political Science, & Center of Conflict Resolution, Muscat) on "Oman's Diplomacy" Introduction by Martin Leroch [↑] (University Pforzheim & Center of Conflict Resolution, Munich) The recording of the talk can be found here [↑] (vimeo) as well as here [↑] on the CCR Munich YouTube Channel [↑]