{"id":146234,"date":"2023-09-08T17:48:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/?post_type=events&#038;p=146234"},"modified":"2023-09-08T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T15:51:00","slug":"research-seminar-iflame-roca-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/en\/events\/research-seminar-iflame-roca-fernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"[Research Seminar] IFLAME: &#8220;Solar eclipses and the origins of critical thinking and complexity&#8221; E. ROCA FERNANDEZ-CERDI &#8211; Universit\u00e9 de Clermont-Auvergne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"880\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bandeaux-events-seminaire-recherche.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bandeaux-events-seminaire-recherche.jpg 880w, https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bandeaux-events-seminaire-recherche-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bandeaux-events-seminaire-recherche-768x218.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bandeaux-events-seminaire-recherche-150x43.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bandeaux-events-seminaire-recherche-400x114.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Speaker: Eric ROCA FERNANDEZ-CERDI<br><\/strong>Universit\u00e9 de Clermont-Auvergne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Date and Location &#8211; Thursday September 14th 2023 from 13:00 to 14:30 <\/strong><br><strong>in Paris campus (P400) and on Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>ABSTRACT<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/rs-iflame.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/rs-iflame.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/rs-iflame-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/rs-iflame-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This paper relates curiosity to economic development through its impact on human capital formation and technological advancement in pre-modern times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>More specifically, we propose that exposure to inexplicable phenomena prompts curiosity and thinking in an attempt to comprehend these mysteries, thus raising human capital and technology, and ultimately, fostering growth.<br>We focus on solar eclipses as one particular trigger of curiosity and empirically establish a robust relationship between their number and several proxies of economic prosperity.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also offer evidence compatible with the human capital and technological increases we postulate, finding a more intricate thinking process and more developed technology among societies more exposed to solar eclipses.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among other factors, we study the development of written language, the playing of strategy games and the accuracy of folkloric explanations for eclipses, as well as the number of tasks undertaken in a society, their relative complexity, and broad technological indicators.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, we document rising curiosity both at the social and individual level: societies incorporate more terms related to curiosity and eclipses in their folklore, and people who observed a total solar eclipse during their childhood were more likely to have entered a scientific occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/abstract-Eric-Roca-Fernandez.pdf\"><strong>More<\/strong> Info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Eric ROCA FERNANDEZ-CERDIUniversit\u00e9 de Clermont-Auvergne Date and Location &#8211; Thursday September 14th 2023 from 13:00 to 14:30 in Paris campus (P400) and on Zoom &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; ABSTRACT This paper relates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","events-category":[200,66,166],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Research Seminar] IFLAME: &quot;Solar eclipses and the origins of critical thinking and complexity&quot; E. 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