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The IX Tampere Lecture
will be held by Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, Mr. Sauli Niinistö on Wednesday 1 September 2010 at the Tampere Hall. The lecture is free and open for audience.
Elinor Ostrom Won the Nobel Prize for Economics
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to member of the Tampere Club,
Professor Elinor Ostrom "for her analysis of economics, governance and especially commons".
Professor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Prize.
Professor Ostrom is the 4th Member of the Tampere Club to win a Nobel Prize. The 1st Laureate in Economics (1986) was the Honorary President of the Club, Professor James M. Buchanan. The second member who won the Nobel Prize, also in economics in 2005, was Professor Thomas C. Schelling. The 3rd member of the Club was President Martti Ahtisaari who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008.
The Tampere Round Table: IX Tampere Club Meeting
The meeting will take place on Tuesday 31 August - Wednesday 1 September 2010 at the
Tampere Hall. The General theme of the Meeting is Democracy and Ignorance. The presentations to support the discussions will be made by two members of the Tampere Club. More details anounced later.
The meeting will be followed by the Closing Seminar of the Tampere Club's Argumenta Seminar on 2 - 3 September 2010.
Russell Hardin held the VIII Tampere
Lecture
Professor Hardin held the VIII Tampere Lecture on
9 September 2009. The topic was "Corporatist Democracy".
The VIII Tampere Club Meeting
The meeting took place on 8 - 9 September 2009 at the
Tampere Hall. The General theme of the Meeting was Democracy and Security. The presentations to support the discussions were made by Vice President of the Tampere Club, Professor Geoffrey Brennan (Australian National University) and Professor Ruth Zimmerling (University of Mainz).
The meeting was followed by the Opening Seminar on the Tampere Club's Argumenta Seminar.
Argumenta-project
The Tampere Club received a significant funding from the
Finnish Cultural Foundations Argumenta funding.
The Tampere Club's Argumenta-project aims
to produce new openings in the dialogue of democracy and
social innovations. The project is also intended to establish
an open discussion between the legistlators and the scientific
community.
Visit
our Argumenta web-page to learn more.
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