Lectures related to Emergence of Informal Initiatives

Forecasting Methods: Expert Approaches and Professional Predictions

Explores forecasting methods, professional predictions for the Swiss economy, and the quality of anticipations in real estate and economic sectors.

Economic Growth: Measuring GDP, GPI, and Tertiarisation of Economy

Explores Swiss GDP decomposition, savings dynamics, GPI as an alternative to GDP, and challenges in using GDP as a welfare indicator.

Investigating Technologies for Humankind

Serves as a bridge between previous modules, investigating technologies for humankind.

Urban Mobility in Africa

Discusses informal transportation, rapid automobile growth, congestion, insecurity, and a new economic sector in African urban mobility.

Tradable Quotas: Market Dynamics and Efficiency

Covers the dynamics of tradable quotas in Zelandia's coal market, focusing on efficiency and market equilibrium.

Climate Change Impacts and Valuation Methods

Discusses the impacts of climate change on Switzerland's water industry and valuation methods for risk assessment.

The Globotics Upheaval

Explores the impact of AI and robotics on service jobs and income distribution.

Energy Demand Modeling: Service Sector

Explores modeling energy demand in the service sector and its implications on building characteristics, technologies, and long-term forecasts.

Innovation Fundamentals

Delves into the economic fundamentals of innovation, exploring historical context, entrepreneurial risk, societal challenges, and the role of private entrepreneurs.

Environmental Legislation and Waste Management

Explores environmental legislation, waste management, and the concept of waste disposal.

Economic Growth: Slowdown and Innovation Failure

Explores the slowdown of economic growth, innovation failure, and challenges in measuring modern economic activity.

Economic Growth: Components of GDP

Explores the main components of GDP, inflation, sustainable development, and the evolution of the services sector.

Input-Output Analysis: Simplified Economy

Explores the input-output analysis of a simplified economy and its environmental implications.

Energy Demand Modeling: Industry Sector

Explores energy demand modeling in the industry sector and the use of techno-economic models for forecasting.

Integer Cones

Covers the concept of integer cones and Carathéodory's theorem with illustrative examples.

Error Analysis and Interpolation

Explores error analysis and limitations in interpolation on evenly distributed nodes.

Water Treatment: Lutry Production Plant

Explores the water treatment process at the Lutry production plant in ensuring high-quality water supply.