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Call for Abstracts  Doctoral Congress in Mass Communication 2021 (DoCoMaCo 2021) 10-11 April 2021, Online The DoCoMaCo 2021 invites abstracts from the early stage and advanced stage doctoral scholars. It is an excellent platform for doctoral scholars (regular/part-time) to present their research work, share their ideas, receive feedback, exchange comments, create a research network and discuss the research directions in an inspiring academic forum. The fellow scholars working on the various themes of media and communication are encouraged to apply for the DoCoMaCo 2021. Objective of the DoCoMaCo 2021 • To offer a platform for scholars in sharing their research ideas/concepts/theory/findings in the field of media and communication. • To provide an opportunity to meet domain experts and get guidance/feedback for improvement. • To help scholars to create a network with their peers from other institutions of India and abroad. Themes The doctoral scholars working on below themes are encoura

https://egrowfoundation.org/events/religion-and-the-rise-of-capitalism/  Abstract Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets--among economists as well as many ordinary citizens--is a form of religion. And, it turns out, that in a deeper, more historically grounded sense there is something to that idea. Contrary to the conventional historical view of economics as an entirely secular product of the Enlightenment, Benjamin M. Friedman demonstrates that religion exerted a powerful influence from the outset. Friedman makes clear how the foundational transition in thinking about what we now call economics, beginning in the eighteenth century, was decisively shaped by the hotly contended lines of religious thought within the English-speaking Protestant world. Beliefs about God-given human character, about the after-life, and about the purpose of our existence, were all under scrutiny in the world in which Adam Smith and his contemporaries lived. Friedman explores h

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https://egrowfoundation.org/events/inflation-targetting/ Abstract For an inflation targeting Central Bank, a precise estimate of the threshold inflation in the economy is important. Existing studies provide estimates without any coherent theory of growth and threshold inflation and hence suffer from several limitations about concept and measurement. The presentation attempts to develop such a theory to establish a stable steady state growth solution. It also operationalises the theory through a model with support from the Indian data for specific components of the model to derive the required functional form. Now that there is an opportunity to revise the inflation target for the period after March 2021, the presentation argues for choosing from the menu of internally consistent options to avoid unnecessary costs.   About the Speaker Professor Ravindra Dholakia is a former RBI Chair Professor, IIM, Ahmedabad and the former Member of the Monetary Policy Committee. He was al