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The Role of Worker Cooperatives in the Post Covid-19 Recovery

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

Introduction In this moment of crisis, worker cooperatives are a reliable, proven solution to address the loss of jobs and income inequality. COVID-19 has devastated the small business community, and the clock is ticking on permanent shutdowns of small businesses. 45 percent of businesses believe they have less than six months until a permanent shutdown …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

The Money Problem | Session 1

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This is the first of two sessions for reading and discussing Morgan Ricks' book The Money Problem. In this session we will cover the Introduction and Part 1 (through chapter 4). From the jacket:"Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 11: Banks and the Market for Liquidity

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 11: Banks and the Market for Liquidity This lecture generalizes the Treynor model from security dealers to money dealers and explores the question of why it's profitable for banks to run the payment system at par when prices can't adjust and there's no bid/ask spread. We also talk about how the …

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5th Workshop on New Developmentalism

Itapeva St., 432, 4th floor São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil

The outbreak of covid-19, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and the slowdown of important global economies such as the USA and China have brought new economic difficulties to all countries in the world, but especially to developing countries. Do these new difficulties intensify or bring new possibilities for catch-up strategies for developing countries? Conventional economic theory has …

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project Series Dissecting capitalism: Season II

Indian Capitalism from the Field

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session of the webinar series will feature Prof. Barbara Harriss-White. She is the Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College , Oxford University and a Visiting professor at JNU. Abstract While Polanyi argued that a society dominated by market exchange – market society – was a dehumanised contradiction in terms, both …

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5th UNCTAD YSI Summer School

ONLINE Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

The summer school is held fully online The 5th UNCTAD YSI Summer School provides an opportunity to explore the Challenges and Opportunities of a New International Economic Order. The school will bring together UNCTAD experts, academics, diplomats, and young scholars from across the globe for lively and stimulating intellectual debates. The world economy is in …

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project Series Keynesian Economics Debate Group

KEDG – 4th meeting

Virtual Project Virtual Project

May 11th Nikolas Schiozer: "Price formation, income inequality and macroeconomic performance as coevolutionary phenomena in an agent-based model" May 19th Apurva Ashish Tudekar "IMPACT OF CURRENT ACCOUNT IMBALANCE ON UNEMPLOYMENT" June 8th Lilian Nogueira Rolim "The impact of international trade shocks on economic growth and income distribution in an agent-based macroeconomic model" July 6th Simon …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 12: Lender/Dealer of Last Resort

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 12: Lender/Dealer of Last Resort We can better understand how the central bank intervenes in the markets by first understanding the markets themselves. The lecture applies what we've learned so far to understanding how the 2008 crisis unfolded and how it was eventually contained. The shadow banking system collapsed onto the …

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project Series YSI Writing Group

YSI Writing Group – S02.E01: Feedback Session

Virtual Project Virtual Project

The YSI Writing group centers on improving writing skills through community approach and support young scholars on their writing journey.In our regularly Feedback Sessions we mainly talk about texts from other young writer we looked at beforehand. Therefore we freely organize feedback-tandems through our Google-Spreadsheet. Feel free to insert your name for giving or receiving …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

The Money Problem | Session 2

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This is the second of two sessions for reading and discussing Morgan Ricks' book The Money Problem. In this session we will cover the Part 2 and Part 3. From the jacket:"Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Reading 6: Jack Treynor

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Reading 6: The Economics of the Dealer Function by Jack Treynor We already understand the Treynor model fairly well from the last few lectures. This article provides a more formal description of the securities market version of the model introduced in Lecture 10. In Lecture 11, Perry generalized the Treynor model for …

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