Welcome back to Part 2 of the Money View Symposium. The initial Money View Symposium took place on the weekend of 5-7 February, 2020; you can find the recordings here. The Money View Symposium showcases work of scholars and practitioners that make use of the money view. We have a particular interest in seeing how …
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The Young Scholar Initiative (YSI) Economic History Working Group and the University of Santiago de Compostela are organizing a two-day workshop on 11-12 March. The theme will be "Magnifying Spaces of Capitalism: A Collective Experiment." In the wake of the recent and still-ongoing pandemic, the world has realized the importance of global interdependences and the …
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Welcome to week one of the Price Level (Fourth Price of Money) discussion and webinar group. We have a weekly standing video meeting time at 9 am Eastern Time (America/New York) every Saturday. For this coming Saturday, March 13th, we will be reading and discussing "Two routes back to the old Phillips curve: the amended …
We are glad to announce the third event of the Webinar series in 18th-Century History of Political Economy. Simon Adler will talk about Political Economy in the mid-18th Century Habsburg Monarchy by exploring the ideas of the Austrian Enlightenment economist Ludwig Zinzendorf. The webinar is open to everyone interested in the topic.You can join the …
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It is widely accepted that combating the COVID-19 pandemic requires a global collaborative effort and knowledge sharing to ease the development and distribution of new health technologies at affordable costs. However, in contrast, the world has witnessed the strengthening of Big Pharma companies together with "vaccine nationalism". While the rents of a few big pharmaceutical …
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Welcome to week two of the Price Level (Fourth Price of Money) discussion and webinar group. Our weekly standing video meeting time is 9 am Eastern Time (America/New York) every Saturday. For Saturday, March 20th, we will be continuing our discussion of "Two routes back to the old Phillips curve: the amended mainstream model and …
Minsky by Daniel H. Neilson --Flyer and discount code for book-- March, 24th March, 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm GMT / 6:00 pm CET (attention: switch to daylight savings time) Chapters discussedCh 1 - IntroductionCh 2 - Financial capitalismCh 3 - A payments theory of financeCh 4 - The inadequacy of economics
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Juan Acosta (Universidad de los Andes) will present the paper “Six decades of economic research at the Bank of England,” coauthored with Beatrice Cherrier (CNRS; École Polytechnique), François Claveau (Université de Sherbrooke), Clément Fontan (UCLouvain; USL Bruxelles), Aurélien Goutsmedt (UQAM; Université de Sherbrooke), and Francesco Sergi (Université Paris Est Créteil). The presentation will be in …
It is that time of year again: mandate time! For those of you that are available, let's meet online for a casual chat and discuss what we have accomplished as a working group in 2020 and how we can channel the momentum gained from the previous year into 2021. We hope you'll join us in …
The Phillips curve posits a trade-off between inflation and unemployment and has long served as the workhorse model of inflation for most economists and Central Banks. Although the conceptual foundations of this relationship have been a subject of debate, the relationship seemed well-supported by the data for many decades. However, since the 1960s, the slope …