We will discuss the following topics for our group's mandate: Which research themes are of interest for the Financial Stability Working Group? Which questions from the 100 Plenary Questions are of interest for the Financial Stability Working Group? What projects should we do? Webinars, webinar series, etc. What partnership and cooperations do we hold? How …
Chapters 1-4 (pg 1-163)
Let's make our 2022 plans for the Behavior & Society Working Group! Please join us for an informal chat this evening at 6pm UK time, 7pm CET, 1pm Eastern, to talk about what ideas and topics we would like to cover this year.
A meeting for the coordinators of the AFRICA working group on the way forward for the group from the plenary.
2022 Africa working group mandate
Dear FLE Members, Join us on 22 February 2022 at 17:00 CET to collaborate on the 2022 Mandate of our working group! The Mandate comprises projects, questions and topics we want to focus on for this year. So bring your ideas and be part of shaping the direction of the FLE Working Group! We look …
This is the first of three sessions on Perry Mehrling's 2011 book The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort https://www.amazon.com/Money-Interest-Public-American-1920-1970/dp/0674584309/ In this book, Mehrling applies his Money View framework to interpret the history of the Fed and to make sense of the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. Walter Bagehot's …
In order to continue the process of creating the YSI UK hub we will meet to discuss the content of the next workshop
Speaker: Dr. Sridhar Venkatapuram Abstract: In this talk, I aim to introduce an audience of economists, particularly health economists, about the relevance and practicability of a moral right to the capability to be healthy. I will start with summarizing two publications from the late 1990s- the 1998 World Bank report called Confronting AIDS-public priorities in …
Pandemics and economics, what’s different this time? Read More »
POSTPONED New dates will be announced shortly. On 28 January after 19 months of tense negotiations, Argentina and the IMF agreed to restructure $44.5bn of sovereign debt. In this webinar we will analyze the recent breakthrough agreement between Argentina and the IMF and its implications for the international sovereign debt restructuring process. In a major …
Martin Guzman and Rob Johnson | Argentina’s Debt Resolution Read More »
Chapters 5-8 (pg 164-327)
Today’s economies reproduce, and often worsen, vast and harmful inequalities between people and countries. These inequalities are often inextricably bound up with historical violence and oppression. Human economic activity is also unsustainable, fuelling global heating and destruction of the living world, which will make large parts of the earth uninhabitable, and already causes untold damage …
How might we co-create Economics curriculum reform in an African context? Read More »