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YSI Roundtable at AHE 2023: Rethinking Development in a Unequal World

AHE 2023 Conference Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

The YSI Inequality and Development Working Groups happily announces a special session to be held during the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE). The joint session will focus on ''Rethinking Development in a Growingly Unequal World''. We invite young scholars (PhD and MSc students) to submit working papers for discussion. Selected …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

The Currency of Politics | Session 1

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This is the first of three sessions on Stefan Eich's 2022 book The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes. https://www.amazon.com/Currency-Politics-Political-Theory-Aristotle/dp/0691191077/ From the Description: Stefan Eich examines six crucial episodes of monetary crisis, recovering the neglected political theories of money in the thought of such figures as Aristotle, John Locke, …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Reading 6: Jack Treynor

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Reading 6: The Economics of the Dealer Function by Jack Treynor. Treynor Study Questions We've already built an intuition for the Treynor model. This is the article where Treynor spells the original version of that model in which securities dealers profit by selling market liquidity. Dealers make a bid-ask spread inside the …

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YSI @ 16th EAEPE Summer School

Roma Tre University Via Silvio D'Amico, Roma, Lazio, Italy

The Keynesian Working Group is happy to announce a call for papers to the YSI @ 16th EAEPE Summer School, Economic policy and welfare in a context of high inflation. We invite you to submit your abstract to the Special section organized by the Young Scholars Initiative at the EAEPE Summer School. The event will …

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Money in global society

Moise Palace Cres, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia

The first decades of this century have seen significant bouts of financial instability, private and public sector debt crisis, geopolitical tensions, technological innovation and the escalation of the climate crisis--all of which have led to adaptations in terms of monetary and fiscal policy, banking and financial markets. Although they have been discussed from different standpoints, …

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YSI’s idea lab @ IAFFE 2023 Pre-conference

University of Cape Town Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

The YSI idea lab @ IAFFE 2023 pre-conference is a co-creative and participatory workshop were young scholars can meet to discuss the most pressing questions of our field and develop joint projects in oder to address them. The first part of the day will consist of a series of short presentations by young scholars. They …

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Navigating some inherent contradictions in CBDC – a LPFMI workshop make-up

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Following the rise of crypto-assets, developments in IT and most recently in the wake of covid-19, discussions surrounding the potential introduction of central bank digital currencies (CBDC) have intensified. In general terms, this webinar and the corresponding paper reconcile 3 key questions: Should CBDC be issued? How will CBDC be delivered to end-users (i.e. the …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

The Credit–Money Hierarchy: a Republican , Egalitarian Appraisal

Virtual Project Virtual Project

We are discussing with Aaron James his new paper entitled "The Credit–Money Hierarchy: a Republican , Egalitarian Appraisal." https://www.dropbox.com/s/egdve0xeqxjkfwc/James_paper%20Credit-Money%20Hiearchy.docx?dl=0 James presented the paper at this month's "Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0" conference, which some of us attended. According to James, the paper describes "three ways 'intrinsic' moral considerations apply to the global credit-money hierarchy."

project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Midterm Review Lecture

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers the Review Lecture for the first half of the course. NOTE: The videos for this lecture are not available on the BU site or the ColumbiaLearn YouTube playlist, but you can access them directly through the Coursera site or through the playlist linked above. The lecture gives a brief overview of the …

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Cooperatives Book Project Write Shop 3 (Data Analysis and Presentation)

Virtual Project Virtual Project

We invite young scholars who are interested in honing their writing skills to join the Cooperative Book Project Team for the Third write-shop on Data Analysis and Presentation. This comes after a string of seminars on writing on the functions of cooperatives in resource management. Everyone is welcome to join us. Dr. Emmanuel M.N.A.N. Attoh …

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project Series Early Career Time

Strategies for Transforming Teaching Practices

Virtual Project Virtual Project

About this workshop: Join us in this interactive workshop as we explore the support and resources available for teaching new economic thinking. Jamie Barker from the Centre for Economy Studies will guide us through the options and materials available to us. Through practical insights and case studies, participants will gain strategies and tools to confidently …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Lecture 13

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 13: Chartallism, Metallism, and Key Currencies. Lecture 13 Notes In the first half of the course, we focused on two prices of money: par and interest rates. With the next four lectures, we explore a third price of money: foreign exchange. This allows us to revisit fundamental questions about the nature …

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