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69<div id="main-menu-5-5-4-16-item" class="static hier-item level-4"><div class="hier-link"><a href="/gdn/rrc-01" >2001</a></div><div id="main-menu-5-5-4-16-button" class="hier-button static">&nbsp;</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="main-menu-5-6" class="item-2010 hier-block level-2 deeper parent collapsed"><div id="main-menu-5-6-item" class="collapsed hier-item level-2"><div class="hier-link"><a href="/outreach/past-projects" >Past Projects</a></div><div id="main-menu-5-6-button" class="hier-button active">&nbsp;</div></div><div id="main-menu-5-6-tree" class="collapsed hier-tree level-2"><div id="main-menu-5-6-1" class="item-2020 hier-block level-3 static"><div id="main-menu-5-6-1-item" class="static hier-item level-3"><div class="hier-link"><a href="/admissions/mentoring" >PhD Mentoring Program</a></div><div id="main-menu-5-6-1-button" class="hier-button static">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div id="main-menu-5-6-2" class="item-2022 hier-block level-3 static"><div id="main-menu-5-6-2-item" class="static hier-item level-3"><div class="hier-link"><a href="/news/cerge-ei-launched-its-economics-discovery-hub-to-give-university-students-access-to-first-class-educational-activities-for-free" >Economics Discovery Hub</a></div><div id="main-menu-5-6-2-button" class="hier-button static">&nbsp;</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="main-menu-6" class="item-131 hier-block level-1 deeper parent collapsed"><div id="main-menu-6-item" class="collapsed hier-item level-1"><div class="hier-link"><a href="/resources/" class="menu-last">Resources</a></div><div id="main-menu-6-button" class="hier-button active">&nbsp;</div></div><div id="main-menu-6-tree" class="collapsed hier-tree level-1"><div id="main-menu-6-1" class="item-1879 hier-block level-2 deeper parent collapsed"><div id="main-menu-6-1-item" class="collapsed hier-item level-2"><div class="hier-link"><a href="/library" >Jan Kmenta Library</a></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-button" class="hier-button active">&nbsp;</div></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-tree" class="collapsed hier-tree level-2"><div id="main-menu-6-1-1" class="item-1888 hier-block level-3 static"><div id="main-menu-6-1-1-item" class="static hier-item level-3"><div class="hier-link"><a href="/library/using-the-library" >Using the Library</a></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-1-button" class="hier-button static">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-2" class="item-1886 hier-block level-3 static"><div id="main-menu-6-1-2-item" class="static hier-item level-3"><div class="hier-link"><a href="https://ukaz.cuni.cz/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Library Catalog</a></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-2-button" class="hier-button static">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-3" class="item-1887 hier-block level-3 static"><div id="main-menu-6-1-3-item" class="static hier-item level-3"><div class="hier-link"><a href="/library/databases" >Databases</a></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-3-button" class="hier-button static">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-4" class="item-1885 hier-block level-3 static"><div id="main-menu-6-1-4-item" class="static hier-item level-3"><div class="hier-link"><a href="https://library.cuni.cz/e-application" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E-Application</a></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-4-button" class="hier-button static">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-5" class="item-1880 hier-block level-3 deeper parent collapsed"><div id="main-menu-6-1-5-item" class="collapsed hier-item level-3"><div class="hier-link"><a href="/library/about" >About</a></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-5-button" class="hier-button active">&nbsp;</div></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-5-tree" class="collapsed hier-tree level-3"><div id="main-menu-6-1-5-1" class="item-1889 hier-block level-4 static"><div id="main-menu-6-1-5-1-item" class="static hier-item level-4"><div class="hier-link"><a href="/library/library-news" >Library News</a></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-5-1-button" class="hier-button static">&nbsp;</div></div></div><div id="main-menu-6-1-5-2" class="item-1881 hier-block level-4 static">
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132<p class="source">Simon Johnson, Professor, MIT; Former Director of Research, IMF</p>
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135<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">History<br /><br /></span></strong>In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Central and Eastern Europe was a center of economic thought. Pioneers including Joseph Schumpeter (born in Třešť, in what is today the Czech Republic), Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (Brno, Czech Republic), Ludwig von Mises (Lviv, Ukraine), Carl Menger (Nowy Sącz, Poland), Etienne Laspeyres (Riga, Latvia), and Friedrich Hayek (Vienna, Austria) helped establish the modern scientific paradigm in the field. In the years immediately prior to the Second World War, the Czechoslovak economist Karel Engliš not only contributed to the understanding of the laws of market economics, but applied this knowledge as Czechoslovak Minister of Finance and Rector of Charles University.<br /><br />After communist domination became ascendant in the region, “economics” as it had been generally known almost died out completely in practice and as a field of study. The study of modern economics was kept alive by a few dedicated individuals who organized underground seminars in secret, often at great personal risk. One group at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences managed to obtain a single subscription to the Journal of Political Economy. Every three months when the new issue arrived, they would carefully separate it, with each member responsible for teaching the others the content of one article. Out of this group came members of the first post-communist Czechoslovak government (including the Finance Minister, the Central Bank Governor and the Minister of Trade and Industry).</p>
136<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Origins of CERGE and EI</strong></span><a name="origins"> <br /><br /></a>Realizing that there was a critical need for both economics professors and policymakers, Josef Zieleniec, a member of the Academy of Sciences group who did not immediately enter government, was tasked with how to train a new generation of economists. Together with Czech émigré Jan Švejnar, then a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, whom he had met at a conference two years prior, Dr. Zieleniec saw immediately that sending students to the US or Western Europe for graduate study was likely to lead to talent leaving the region and, therefore, that it was essential to rapidly establish world-class educational capacity within Central Europe.<br /><br />In 1990, a core group of funders including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, USAID and the Pew Charitable Trusts had agreed to support a doctoral program at Charles University provided it served not only Czechoslovakia but the entire transition region. Implementation took an additional year. With the active support of Charles University Rector Radim Palouš, by September 1991 CERGE enrolled its first 12 students, from 7 countries.<br /><br />In 1992, the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences closed both its Institute of Economics and its Institute of Forecasting, creating in their stead a modern e
136conomic research institution, called Národohospodářský ústav (NHÚ) in Czech and the Economics Institute (EI) in English, to carry out scholarly work at the highest international standards.</p>
137<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Merging CERGE and EI</strong></span><a name="merger"> <br /><br /></a>CERGE and EI shared overlapping goals and interests. When they began working as partners in 1993, the effectiveness of combining education and research, a concept new to the region, was immediately apparent. In 1999, CERGE-EI was officially recognized as a Joint Workplace of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Growth and Influence</strong></span><a name="growth-and-influence"> <br /><br /></a>With its strategic location in historic Prague, the heart of Europe, CERGE-EI continues to be recognized as a regional center of excellence in graduate education and research. It has a proven track record of attracting high-quality researchers, faculty and students concerned with the impact of the social, economic and political transition on the CEE/FSU region. <br /><br />CERGE-EI awarded its first PhD in 1995 to Jacek Cukrowski of Poland, and its 100th to Asel Isakova of Kyrgystan in January 2010. <br /><br />As a further indication of overall academic quality, CERGE-EI's PhD in Economics was granted an absolute charter by the New York State Department of Education Board of Regents in 2005 and is fully accredited in the Czech Republic by the Ministry of Education, Youth &amp; Sports, enabling it to grant both US and Czech degrees.<br /><br />The professional success of CERGE-EI's graduates and the world-class quality of its research attests to its creative environment of intellectual curiosity and scientific rigor. CERGE-EI has won numerous accolades from US governmental institutions, the European Commission, international grant agencies, and research organizations. In 1992 and 1994, the European Community Secretariat of the ACE Programme designated CERGE-EI the only “Recognized Centre of Excellence in Ph.D. Studies in Economics” in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1993 and 1994, CERGE-EI was recognized as a Center of Excellence in Economics Education and Research by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).</p>
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