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Social Science and Technology Seminar Fall 2011

Event Details:

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - Wednesday, December 14, 2011
4:00pm - 5:30pm PST

Seminars take place in the 3rd Floor Conference Room, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building at 366 Galvez Street unless otherwise noted.

Schedule

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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    Session I: Job Hopping in the Shadow of Patent Enforcement

    Rosemarie Ziedonis, University of Oregon

    (joint with Martin Ganco and Rajshree Agarwal)

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

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    Session II: Regional Disadvantage? Non-compete Agreements and Brain Drain

    Matt Marx, MIT

    (joint with Jasjit Singh and Lee Fleming)

     Paper

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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    Session III: Chained Index Methods and Productivity Growth during the Depression

    Alex Field, Santa Clara University

    (Seminar is joint with Social Science History Workshop, SSHW)

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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    Session IV: Innovation, Social Structure and the Emergence of New Industries

    Sonali Shah, University of Washington

    joint with Cyrus Mody

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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    Session V: Bad International Relations but Better Science? Soviet Technological Spillovers, East Germany and the Boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics

    Lisa Cook, Michigan State University, Council of Economic Advisors

    ***CANCELLED***

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

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    Session VI: Optimal Transition Paths toward Global Climate Stabilization: Implications for Science and Technology Policies and their Timing

    Paul David, Stanford University

    (joint with Adriaan van Zon, Luc Soete and Bronwyn Hall)

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