Coordinators meeting
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A meeting for the coordinators of the AFRICA working group on the way forward for the group from the plenary.
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Coordinators Meeting
Virtual Project
2022 Africa working group mandate
FLE Mandate 2022
Virtual Project
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 …
The New Lombard Street | Session 1
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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 …
YSI UK Hub follow-up meeting
Probably the same place we went last time in London London, England, United KingdomIn order to continue the process of creating the YSI UK hub we will meet to discuss the content of the next workshop
Pandemics and economics, what’s different this time?
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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 …
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Martin Guzman and Rob Johnson | Argentina’s Debt Resolution
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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 …
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The Dawn of Everything – Part 2
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Chapters 5-8 (pg 164-327)
How might we co-create Economics curriculum reform in an African context?
Virtual Project
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 …
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The New Lombard Street | Session 2
Virtual Project
This is the second 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 …
Working Group Mandate Brainstorming
Virtual Project
Hello fellow WG members! We are having a meeting this Saturday at 10 GMT to discuss the new mandate for our working group! All members welcome. No need to prepare anything just bring yourself and your interests - we can exchange ideas, share proposals which will be used to write a mandate for the WG. …
Session-1: Decolonizing Economic Methodology Reading Group
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This reading group aims at exploring how the perspective of the postcolonial scholarship could open up new approaches to philosophy of economics/economic methodology. Our endeavor is inspired by the vibrant discussion on the need, possibility and promise of decolonizing economics. Once a month we will read and meet online to discuss a selection of chapters …
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