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Young Scholars Workshop on Co-operative Inclusion; Post-Covid-19 World

The Co-operative University of Kenya Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya

Introduction As we emerge from the current recession caused by the novel Coronavirus and learn how to live in a post-pandemic world, climate action is one of our greatest challenge as well as an opportunity. We will be looking for a vaccine to protect ourselves, not only from Covid-19, but also from the advance effects …

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Winter School “Tópicos Avanzados de Economía Heterodoxa”

CEED/IDAES/UNSAM Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Master's Degree in Economic Development (MDE) and the Center for Development Economic Studies (CEED) of the Institute of High Social Studies (IDAES) of the National University of San Martín (UNSAM), with the support of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), invite advanced students and recent graduates of Economics and related majors from all over the …

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project Series Summer Academy on Law, Money and Technology: Toward Democratic Futures

Political Economy and Law: Where We Are, Where We Should Be Going

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Link to the event: https://youngscholarsinitiative.zoom.us/j/97161987995?pwd=Wk9zQ3g4VldNano5Slp4WU05M0h6QT09 Political Economy is back on the agenda in law, and law shows renewed importance in finance. What lessons have we learned from past engagement and struggle? Where are we currently? In what ways is the conversation stuck? How can we transition from conversation to action? Format: Introduction (5 minutes), Panel …

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project Series Summer Academy on Law, Money and Technology: Toward Democratic Futures

How do we get to social and economic justice? How does that goal look like?

Virtual Project Virtual Project

LINK TO THE SESSION: https://youngscholarsinitiative.zoom.us/j/94528735047?pwd=K3doV3drU0hNZEQzOXdXd0I0WVQrQT09Our focus on structures and power must go further to evaluate the dynamics of injustice baked into law and political economy. That includes foregrounding the ways in which capitalism is thoroughly raced and gendered, both in domestic and global politics. The ongoing legacies of colonialism, for example, are often discounted in …

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project Series Financing The Future

Inventing Inclusive Monetary Solutions – Mr. Andrew Sheng

Virtual Project Virtual Project

With Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute This final session will examine the needs of our modern, globally connected civilization that current, antiquated approaches to economics simply cannot meet. Examining what we have learned so far, how would money need to be changed to better serve the needs of our modern world? …

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project Series Summer Academy on Law, Money and Technology: Toward Democratic Futures

How do we currently understand the dynamics of markets and workplaces?

Virtual Project Virtual Project

How do we currently understand the dynamics of markets and workplaces, and how may we imagine restructuring them concretely for a more egalitarian and sus-tainable democratic future? What ways are most productive for understanding market institutions, market actors and workplace contexts? What is the place of finance and money in accounts of production and society? …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

A Money View Discussion on Central Bank Digital Currencies

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Central banks are increasingly exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and the topic often comes up in other discussions on money and banking. For this session we want to take some time to more directly discuss CBDC and some of the main questions around the topic, such as: What is a money view read on …

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project Series Summer Academy on Law, Money and Technology: Toward Democratic Futures

How may we shape the future technologies to support democratic outcomes?

Virtual Project Virtual Project

What are the key tipping points in digital technology, and how may we engage and shape the next generation technologies to support democratic outcomes?Digital technologies are often discussed as unprecedented disruption to all areas of society. Scholars debate the benefits and costs of different innovations and express a range of feelings about its utopian and …

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project Series The 4th Price of Money and Theories of Inflation

Discussion of July 16th House of Lords Report on QE

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This our weekly discussion of the price level as it relates to Perry Mehrling's money view. The price level is the average price of goods in terms of money or, equivalently, the price of money in terms of goods. But what determines the price level? Why is the price level important? And how does it …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC

2021 Week 11 — Lectures 19 & 20, Reading 10

Virtual Project Virtual Project

We're discussing the following for week 11: Lecture 19: Interest Rate Swaps NOTE: Part 4 of this lecture is missing from Perry Mehrling's site and the YouTube playlist. Here's a direct link.Part 4: What is a Swap Lecture Notes Selling an IRS is like borrowing in the repo market to finance the holding of a …

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project Series Summer Academy on Law, Money and Technology: Toward Democratic Futures

Emerging Scholarship Mentorship and Writing Workshop

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Emerging scholars submit papers, which will be peer reviewed by two es-tablished academics. The respective author and reviewers will meet in sep-arate breakout rooms. The session will be run based on the Institute for Global and Policy (IGLP) general workshop format and will follow 2-3 minutes for author to situate the work, 15 minutes from …

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