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 …
Please notice this event will be in Spanish only. En este webinario, Javiera Petersen es la invitada por Carlota Perez para una conversación sobre los desafÃos de implementar polÃticas para el desarrollo en Chile. Javiera Petersen es actualmente subsecretaria (vice ministra) de EconomÃa de Chile. Es ingeniera comercial de la Universidad de Chile y tiene …
Los retos del desarrollo económico desde el ejercicio de gobernar Read More »
Join us on 12 July 2023 at 11:00ET for our next reading group session. The session will be facilitated by Greg Wilpert, who will be presenting his work in progress, an upcoming book, titled: Consciousness for the Post-Capitalist Commons. Gregory Wilpert is deputy editor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He is a German-American …
Reading Group: Consciousness for the Post-Capitalist Commons Read More »
This session covers Lecture 14: Money and the State: International and the Robert Mundell reading, which is a revised version of his 1999 Nobel Prize speech on the international monetary history of the 20th century. Lecture 14 Notes Mundell Study Questions Mundell divides the 20th century into three parts. He views the 19th-century gold standard …
Discussion — Lecture 14 & Reading 7: Robert Mundell Read More »
The creators of this event would like to host the YSI community in a recap of the previous sessions, and prepare for the next installment of the series. New to Financing the Future? Loved the first series? No matter your familiarity with the previous interviews, this session will fill you up on all the details …
The Ecology and Society Workshop of the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (ECOSOC-CES), in co-organization with the Sustainability Working Group from Young Scholars Initiative, proposes to "un-school" the Summer, by walking, counter-mapping, performing. We will enjoy the summer heat and breeze of southwest Portugal to engage with the strong wave of movements and …
Join us to learn the basics of project organizing, and ask any questions you have on your mind.
This session covers Lecture 15: Banks and Global Liquidity and Lecture 16: Foreign Exchange Lecture 15 Notes Lecture 16 Notes Lecture 15 uses the context of a 19th-century gold-standard world to introduce the Treynor model to foreign exchange markets. We flesh out the international dimension to what we covered in Lecture 9. FX dealers operate …
The Economics of Innovation, Economic Development and States & Markets working groups of the Young Scholars Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (YSI/INET) are glad to announce a workshop on Socio-economic policies in Latin America to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the 19th of July 2023 at the Federal University …
Socio-economic policies in Latin America: challenges and opportunities. Read More »
This is the second 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, …
This session covers Reading 8: The Dollar and World Liquidity: A Minority View, a 1966 article by Charles P. Kindleberger, Walter Despres, and Walter S. Salant, which originally appeared in The Economist. By viewing the United States as a bank to the rest of the world, Kindleberger tries to allay concerns about a U.S. balance-of-payments …
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This session covers Lecture 17: Direct and Indirect Finance and Lecture 18: Forwards and Futures. Lecture 17 Notes Lecture 18 Notes Lecture 17—starting with a simple description of "traditional" commercial banks—describes the evolution and emergence of shadow banking as the money market and capital market became intertwined through an iterative process of intermediation and disintermediation. …