Interview with Gert-Jan Koopman, Director-General of the European Commission's budget department Chatham House rules apply When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed. …
This session covers Lecture 4: The Money View, Micro and Macro This lecture connects up the money view with Hyman Minsky's cashflow-oriented view of the economy. The payments system is a credit system. The expansion of credit makes ordinary payments possible. But sometimes the expansion of credit has to come from above in the hierarchy. …
Discussion — Lecture 4: The Money View, Micro and Macro Read More »
The introductory session of the webinar series will feature Professor Jayati Ghosh. She is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. Abstract The inequalities and institutional structures of global capitalism are preventing humanity from preventing climate change or responding adequately to its ferocious effects. I consider how this is playing …
Capitalism and climate change: An Asian perspective Read More »
YSI has just turned 10 years and we want to celebrate with the local community! This local event will take place Monday 2nd of May at the beautiful city of famous personalities like Galileo Galilei and Leonardo Fibonacci. We want to invite the local YSI community to join us in the festivity event.
In this webinar, Pr. Giandomenica Becchio (University of Torino) will give a presentation of her book A History of Feminist and Gender Economics recently published by Routledge (2020). The book is a historical investigation of how feminist and gender economics have developed both inside and at the fringe of the economics discipline. In particular, Becchio's …
A History of Feminist and Gender Economics by Giandomenica Becchio Read More »
Tehreem Husain, PhD Candidate from University College London (UCL) will present her paper Time-varying Relationship between Returns on Government and Railway Securities 1880-1913: An Empirical Analysis. ABSTRACT:Investment guides and newspaper reports published during the first era of globalisation refer to ‘railway securities being more lucrative in the long-run’ and ‘all British stocks subject to the …
INTRODUCTIONThe Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) Cooperatives Working Group together with the Helper (a humanitarian arm of the Midlands State University, Department of Development Studies) is hosting a workshop on the 5th and 6th of May 2022. The workshops brings together development practitioners/co-operators with academics in an endeavour to craft strategies for cooperatives post- Covid 19 …
Bridging the gap between practitioners and academics in cooperatives Read More »
Between MARCH and JUNE 2022, the Philosophy of Economics WG will conduct four sessions to discussing CHINA’S LAND USE PLANNING AND POLICY. SESSION 2 will focus on two articles by Fulong Wu on the impact of neoliberalism in China’s economic reform and cities. How does neoliberalism impact the planning of cities? The session will feature …
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Coordinators meeting
In this webinar session the panel discusses their view on the second new economic question posed by His Holiness Pope Francis:*"Taking into account that the administration of household goods requires its rules, its laws: what could be those laws that put the economy at the service of fragility? What should the relationship between economics and …
Pope Francis’ 3 New Economic Questions Webinar: Fragility and Flourishing Read More »
Our first meeting! Join us to set the course for our writing journey.
This session covers Reading 2: The vision of Hyman P. Minsky by Perry Mehrling Minsky put the problem of liquidity front and center. This reading is very much tied to the content of Lecture 4, which emphasizes the survival constraint: At any given point in time, every economic agent must ensure it has sufficient cash …