Molotov Seminar 82 · What's causing today's politics & economics?

Dr Calen Walshe (Computer Science, Vision Science) will try to understand the patterns underlying today's global economic and political trends, with the help of some data.

10 years since the global financial crisis, much has changed around the world. Who could have predicted Brexit, rising nationalism, and a US-China trade war? Are there any common fundamental causes driving these movements? One theory blames escalating inequality, another explains it as an eventual return to zero-sum relations between nations. We will explore such ideas with the help of some data.



Calen is from Vancouver, Canada. He did his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Perceptual Systems at UT Austin, researching the computational basis of vision and motor control. In his spare time he reads and thinks a lot about philosophy, history, politics and economy.

 

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Friday, October 12, 2018 at 5:00pm

Robert Lee Moore Hall (RLM), 9.222
2515 SPEEDWAY , Austin, Texas 78712

Event Type

Policy & Law

Target Audience

Students, General Public

Website

https://www.facebook.com/events/23889...

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