ISINI 2022 - Wrocław, Poland, 01-02 September 2022
The fifteenth international conference of the International Society for the Intercommunication of New Ideas (ISINI) is organized at the WSB University in Wroclaw, Poland on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd September 2022. The event will be possible to attend in situ or online. Online participation is free of charge. On-site participation fee is 150 euro. Please contact the organizers for logistic support regarding travel and accommodation (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
As per ISINI tradition, you are cordially invited to submit topics, summaries of full papers that are within the scope of the ISINI society. The Society is driven by:
- fostering the discovery and dissemination of new ideas, in particular in economics and other social sciences (e.g. law, legal science, history and political science),
- testing these ideas and to study the application to problems of the real world.
- fulfilling these purposes by creating and upholding an environment where economists and practitioners regularly meet, consult and cooperate with scholars from other disciplines.
The major instrument of ISINI has until now been the conference. We hope to stimulate research that focuses on a cluster of pressing and actual social economic problems. The world economy and its constituent political entities see themselves confronted with a host of threatening problems, climate change among them. However, recent world conflicts and covid-19 pandemic show that if we want to preserve or build up a decent and well-functioning society, other societal problems deserve serious discussion as well.
Any topic related to the above is welcomed to be discussed. Below a description of topics developed by ISINI members:
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- The multiple crises at our door – lack of crises was a state of mind.
Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine bring up different weaknesses in the integrated global economy, ranging from energy dependence, increasing inequalities and price shocks to instability of global supply chains. The Ukrainian war threats the rearrangement of the globalized world order in an unpredictable direction. Added to the socio-economical-political challenges, scenarios related to environmental resource depletion and climate change remain untapped . Multiple crises are looming around the corner, while the sustainability discourse seems to center towards finding optimal transformations in order to persist our way of living. However, the basis for sustainability is hope. survival. In this context, the aim of science and policy is to eliminate lies, nonsense, threats to human existence, etc. It is about eliminating mistakes and problems that can destroy us, as well as enabling people, organizations and society to deal with such mistakes and problems when they cannot be prevented. This means a change in the approach as the world is too complex to engineer top-down. And if we undertake policy – know what not to do. This approach requires a change in the way people think as well as worldviews (mental models), as well as organizational and societal goals – it is not about bringing us into heaven, but keeping us out of hell. A Leitmotiv of the approach is: “The road to heaven may be worse than hell.”
Within this general context, contribution to discussion are invited. Short opinion papers and op-eds can be published in the Central European Review of Economics and Management.
An example of a contribution to the discussion is the article “Make me dictator and I will save humankind. A rational approach to the emergency of the 21st century” by Laurenc L. DE VITA (https://www.cerem-review.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cerem_6_1_art_04.pdf).
For participation, please contact:
Joost Platje, WSB University in Wrocław (Poland), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The submission deadline is July 1, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be made shortly hereafter.
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- New Consumer Agenda (Will consumers become The Fifth Estate?).
In 2020, European Union proposed the New Consumer Agenda. It aims to empower European consumers to make informed choices and play an active role in the ecological and digital transition wherever they are in the European Union. Consumers are considered as pivotal elements in economic growth expectations. The Agenda is expanded into five pillars. They serve to empower the consumers to make sustainable choices. The new Agenda introduces measures that promote a fair digital and green society, taking into account that consumer behavior. A new element to this consumers’ document is the emphasis on health and digital services effecting from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The New Consumer Agenda presents a vision for EU consumer policy from 2020 to 2025 focusing on five key priority areas:
- Green transition– The Commission aims to ensure that sustainable products are available to consumers on the EU market and that consumers have better information to be able to make an informed choice.
- Digital transformation – The digital transformation is radically changing consumers’ lives offering new opportunities but also presenting them with challenges.
- Effective enforcement of consumer rights – While enforcement of consumer rights is the responsibility of Member States, the Commission has a coordinating and supporting role.
- Specific needs of certain consumer groups – Certain groups of consumers in certain situations can be particularly vulnerable and need specific safeguards, for instance children, older people or those with disabilities.
- International cooperation – In a globalised world in which online purchases transcend borders, cooperation with international partners has become crucial.
The New Consumer Agenda opens new paths for the consumer’s economy introducing a holistic approach to the EU Single Market. It aims to tackle the market and societal changes aligning the national consumer policies. Implementation of the new Agenda is as well expected to boost the economy of consumer choice integrating the green growth. It will have direct implications for the economic growth which we would like to discuss during the ISINI 2022. The discussions we expect are about the changes that will take place in following 1-5 areas of economy.
We open the floor for following research problems: 1) change in consumers choice/ sustainable driven choice? Not anymore price driven choice?; 2) Who is a modern consumer and who is not? Income based definition?; 3) Reduced globalization and consumers empowerment?; 4) Degrowth as a consequence of changes in market organization?
European Commission. Public domain.
For participation, please contact:
Katarzyna Kurek, Johan van Ophem, Wageningen University and Research (The Netherlands), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The submission deadline is July 1, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be made shortly hereafter.
- Economic growth vs. degrowth? Directions to take. (What is the best response to pandemic crisis and running inflation?)
Economic growth ceases to play an important role in the face of destabilization caused by the global pandemic and environmental damage. Growing energy demand and growing energy production pegged with the GDP can be hold accountable for economic growth disbalance and resource wars (e.g. recent conflicts in Middle East, Ukraine). Increasing consumption and globalization of logistics is related with environmental problems and greenhouse gases emission. New economic shocks (pandemic, global inflation) emerge because we are growth dependent. Nevertheless, modern economies continue to be oriented towards market growth and technological transformation, regardless the fact that the economic growth is on global credit.
Economic degrowth calls for creating a future where societies live within their ecological means, with localized economies and resources management more equally distributed through democratic institutions. Degrowth addresses the unsustainability of economic growth. It intends to decouple GDP from greenhouse gas emissions by downscaling production and consumption while ensuring legislation for distributing emission permits on an annually declining basis. Degrowth corresponds with the principles of ‘wellbeing economics’ such as societal values as health, nature, education, and communities.
Whereas developing countries are following the economic growth agenda, the developed economies become to introduce degrowth oriented policies incl. Elements of the degrowth are conceptualized by the EU Green Deal policy packages.
We would like to encourage debates on the economic growth and edgrowth concept as counterbalancing the externalities. Does degrowth have chances for replacing growth policies globally? Can degrowth be a credit-free economic approach? What are the alternatives to GDP? New economic indicators to substitute the GDP? New sustainability indicators? These questions are posed in the context of general aims: Staying with the limits of 1.5C, climate actions; Creating communities based in resources; Living within our means; Ecosystem thinking
Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Public domain.
For participation, please contact:
Katarzyna Kurek, Johan van Ophem, Wageningen University and Research (The Netherlands), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The submission deadline is July 1, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be made shortly hereafter.
- Latin American Panel.
This an online session takes place on Thursday 1 September 2022, at 17:00 CET (09:00 local time in Sonora, Mexico). For participation, please contact:
David Slim Zepeda Quintana (Unison, Hermosillo, Mexico), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or Francisco Vargas (Unison, Hermosillo, Mexico), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The submission deadline is July 1, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be made shortly hereafter.
Messe Frankfurt. Public domain.
5. !!Special CEVI session on “Energy and Valuation Issues”!!
The objective of the CEVI session is to bring together academics and practitioners from all over the world to focus on timely energy finance and investments, financial performance, energy markets and valuation issues in the energy sector worldwide. Specific topics refer to energy issues, and include:
Financial Regulation; Financial Markets; Financial Risks; Asset Pricing; Value at Risk; Capital Structure; Sourcing Capital; Corporate (Re-) Structuring; Corporate Governance; Behavioural Finance; Financial Performance; Cost Control; Financial Accounting; Fiscal and Legal Issues.
Please submit your papers (completed or nearly completed) or participation interest via e-mail to: Dr. Wim Westerman (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Dr. Johan van Ophem (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
The submission deadline is July 1, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be made shortly hereafter.