abstract | Governments shape policies that restrict or enable access to health services, thereby directly impacting the health and financial livelihoods of their citizens. I build a measure of health decommodification to assess changes in health systems with regards to individual risks when seeking care. The measure is used to addresses the question of the circumstances under which governments retrench or expand access to health care.

abstract | The recent rise of MOOCs and online degrees offered via online platforms has occurred in climate of austerity climate for public higher education. Public universities in the Global North and South face similar challenges to expand their educational reach, while advancing their brand in international rankings and raising fees and third-stream income in order to secure additional revenue.

BIO | B. Papadimitriou is president of the Levy Institute, and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics and executive vice president emeritus at Bard College. He was Minister of Economy and Development for the Hellenic Republic from 2016 to 2018. He has testified on a number of occasions in hearings of Senate and House of Representatives Committees of the U.S. Congress, was vice-chairman of the Trade Deficit Review Commission of the U.S. Congress and was a member of the Competitiveness Policy Council's Subcouncil on Capital Allocation.

You are cordially invited to the Info Session with CEU's Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy, followed by the panel discussion:

‘Academic Freedom in the Digital Age’

Prof. Andres Moles & Prof. Cameran Ashraf 

MiRG invites you to a presentation of the recently published report on Migrants’ Integration Experiences in Hungary and Their Institutional-Political Context in the framework of the the Risk Change – international collaboration project. 

Project RISK CHANGE (2016–2020) involving 10 partner countries is co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union and in Hungary supported by NKA.