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As the Delhi Elections get closer, candidate promises are flying thick. Do you think election manifestos should be legally binding documents? What else can be done to hold politicians accountable to promises they make in the run-up to the polls? Join us for #ccstalks, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 from 3-4pm as we debate this issue. Log in to tweetchat.com or Twitter and follow #ccstalks. We look forward to speaking with you!

For more information, contact Manasi Bose (pr@ccs.in).

Shreekant Gupta will explore free-market solutions to environmental challenges, on 3 February 2015. Dr Gupta is Associate Professor at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests are in applied economics and policy including environment and development and climate change. Earlier, he has been a Fellow with National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi and headed the Environmental Policy Cell. He has also worked as an environmental economist at the World Bank at Washington DC focusing on macroeconomic policies and the environment in Sri Lanka, Ghana and Poland. Shreekant has served on several national and international committees on the environment including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 to which his contribution was recognised.

Join us for this important discussion! RSVP Manasi Bose (pr@ccs.in).

ìpolicy for Young Leaders aims to reach out to undergraduates, graduates, post graduates and recent graduates who have just started working. CCS believes that such individuals hold the power to change the future, and because they are currently in a space where their belief and knowledge could be channelized and strengthened through exposure to ideas of a free society.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• To create a fun, open, and respectful environment where everyone is encouraged to think critically about social, economic, and political issues.
• To evoke in participants a passionate inquiry into their own values and role in creating a good society.
• To equip participants with fundamental concepts of political economy and sound public policy to enable them understand the root cause of current challenges and effectively advocate for policy solutions through their current work and future professions.
• To plug participants into a global network of opportunities to propel their intellectual growth, make personal connections and access resources to help them advance their vision of a free society.

ELIGIBILITY: The program is open to all students and recent graduates. The course has been designed to make each session participatory and has been limited to 40 participants.

REGISTRATION FEE: The fee for the ìpolicy will vary between Rs 1,000 - 3,500 depending on the format of the program (Residential or Non Residential). This fee is payable upon selection, and payment can be made online or through cheque, details of which will be communicated.(Travel costs are not included – participants must make their own arrangements).

To apply now click here.

ìpolicy for Young Leaders aims to reach out to undergraduates, graduates, post graduates and recent graduates who have just started working. CCS believes that such individuals hold the power to change the future, and because they are currently in a space where their belief and knowledge could be channelized and strengthened through exposure to ideas of a free society.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• To create a fun, open, and respectful environment where everyone is encouraged to think critically about social, economic, and political issues.
• To evoke in participants a passionate inquiry into their own values and role in creating a good society.
• To equip participants with fundamental concepts of political economy and sound public policy to enable them understand the root cause of current challenges and effectively advocate for policy solutions through their current work and future professions.
• To plug participants into a global network of opportunities to propel their intellectual growth, make personal connections and access resources to help them advance their vision of a free society.

ELIGIBILITY: The program is open to all students and recent graduates. The course has been designed to make each session participatory and has been limited to 40 participants.

REGISTRATION FEE: The fee for the ìpolicy will vary between Rs 1,000 - 3,500 depending on the format of the program (Residential or Non Residential). This fee is payable upon selection, and payment can be made online or through cheque, details of which will be communicated.(Travel costs are not included – participants must make their own arrangements).

To apply now click here.

WHAT IS CCS Austrian Economics Seminar?

CCS Austrian Economics Seminar is a residential course designed to introduce participants to a rigorous, understandable, and reality-based way of thinking about the causes of prosperity, social order, and freedom.

Rooted in the tradition of Austrian-born economists Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, and F.A. Hayek, “Austrian” economics is not a specific field within economics, nor is it a set of conclusions. It is an entirely different approach to understanding social reality that dissents from mainstream method, theory, and policy.

Austrian economics aims to understand society using realistic premises, instead of making unrealistic assumptions such as “perfect knowledge,” “perfect competition,” or “perfect governments.” It focuses on understanding dynamic social processes of coordination, learning, and discovery ubiquitous in a world of constant change, rather than focusing on static models. And most essentially, Austrian economics views human beings as unique, conscious, choosing agents, not as undifferentiated data to be aggregated or manipulated mathematically or politically.

GOALS OF CCS Austrian Economics Seminar:

• To create a fun, open, and respectful environment where everyone is encouraged to think critically about social, economic, and political issues, with a focus on understanding Austrian school perspectives.
• To introduce participants to elements of the Austrian approach to social science and to demonstrate why these elements are essential to promoting widespread prosperity, social order, and individual freedom.
• To plug participants into a global network of opportunities to propel their intellectual growth, make personal connections and access resources to help them advance their vision of a free society.

EXAMPLE SESSIONS

Ludwig von Mises & The Science of Human Action: This session introduces von Mises’ insight that economic understanding can be derived from the axiom that all human beings act and that, as a consequence, they cannot avoid conforming to certain formal “economic laws” irrespective of their ends, values, or decisions.

From Marx to Menger: The Labor vs. the Subjective Theory of Value: This session describes how the subjective theory of value and marginal utility disproved the theoretical foundations of Adam Smith and Karl Marx and created a scientific basis for understanding economic affairs.

Comparative Advantage and the Failure of Protectionism: This session explains the fundamental cause of trade and association in modern societies and why free trade is more conducive to prosperity, peace, and freedom than economic protectionism with reference to the failures of protectionism in India.

The Socialist Calculation Debate: This session demonstrates why general prosperity under central economic planning is strictly impossible.

B. R. Shenoy: India's Experience with Central Planning: This session shows the explanatory and predictive power of the Austrian approach through the work of India’s preeminent Austrian economist, B. R. Shenoy and his critiques of India’s economic policies since Independence.

Keynesian vs Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle: This session explains the Austrian theory of economic cycles and points in the direction of how to end them.

• Students registration fees: Rs. 250
• Teachers registration fees: Rs. 500

Total available seats: 30.

Registration for this event is closed now.