Link Between Irrigation and Autocracy
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On Wednesday, April 1st, ISET hosted Dr. Asger Moll Wingender from the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Wingender presented his paper “Irrigation and Autocracy” co-authored with Jeanet Sinding Bentzen and Nicolai Kaarsen.
The speaker began the presentation by introducing the topic of the paper – how autocracy and irrigation can be related to each other. The link between these two was noted first in 19th century by Adam Smith and Karl Marx and was widely talked over in Karl Wittfogel’s work “Oriental Despotism”.
ISET Research Fellow Attends Winter School in Norway
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On March 23-27, 2015, Levan Pavlenishvili, Research Fellow at ISET-PI, Energy Policy Research Center, attended Ph.D. Winter School on “Energy Systems and Markets” in Kvitfjell, Norway. The course covered topics of market design, operations and investment, risk modeling and pricing on energy, primarily on electricity markets. Methods used during the offered course were: computational equilibrium analysis, stochastic optimization and deterministic optimization. The course consisted of 30 hours of lectures and Levan acquired 2.5 ECTS credits for attending the winter school.
Winter school was organized by Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), and Center for Sustainable Energy Studies (CenSES).
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