A Global Green New Deal

Greenpeace H Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. Overview The average global temperature keeps rising. And carbon pollution is just one element of a general environmental crisis which also includes pollution of water, ocean plastic contamination, soil exhaustion and much more. The environmental emergency is now an undeniable …

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75 Years After Bretton Woods: Does the World Need a New Global System?

National Press Club 14th Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field Overview The year of 2019 marked the 75th anniversay of the agreement that shaped the global monetary system. Last year at the Jackson Hole meeting, Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, claimed that "The deficiencies of the international …

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A 30 Year Re-evaluation of Structural Adjustment Policies

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) 16th Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will provide young scholars and policy makers the opportunity to hear from and discuss with senior experts. Overview Since gaining their economic independence, the less-developed economies (LDEs) of the Global South have invested heavily in their economic development. This process has largely been understood as a restructuring of the LDEs, so they would …

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Governing through austerity: the (il)logics of neoliberal urbanism

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. Overview In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, major economies have entered a cycle of slow growth and rising government deficits, to which economists have responded with public expenditure cuts. Such austerity measures tend to reorganize the institutional …

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The Grey Revolution: Aging and Welfare

Washington D.C., DC, USA Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include poster presentations, as well as an interdisciplinary town-hall style discussion, with input from K. Ali Akkemik, an expert in the field. Overview Rapidly growing elderly populations is quietly changing the demographic composition of the worlds developing economies. By 2050, the world’s population aged 60 years and older is expected to total …

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New Challenges to Civil Rights in the Digital Era

ACLU 15th Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will feature paper presentations by young scholars and policymakers, as well as a discussion with a senior level expert in the field. Overview During the 1990’s and the first decade of the 2000’s there was a hope that the rapid development of the internet and new communication technology would empower and free individuals …

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Macro-, Monetary-, and Financial History⁠—Lessons from the Past

Federal Reserve Board Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will feature paper presentations by young scholars and policymakers, as well as a discussion with Mark Carlson, an expert in the field. Overview During the 2007-08 financial crisis, economists and policy makers looked to the Great Depression for historical examples of how to respond to severe economic turmoil. A decade later, what historical …

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Challenges in Repo Markets: Financial Stability, Monetary Policy Frameworks

Federal Reserve Board Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. More than ten years after the Global Financial Crisis, despite unprecedented actions by monetary and financial stability authorities, serious problems remain in place. Among them is the emerging problems in the repo market that requires the Fed to resume purchases …

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Financing Africa’s Development

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussion with senior level experts in the field. Overview The literature on how to finance Africa’s development long centered around Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). To attract FDI, it was argued, Africa needs to sway the international community with financial liberalisation. In later years, the debates changed. Scholars explored …

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The Political Economy of Health Economics

National Press Club 14th Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

This workshop will include lectures by and discussions with experts in the field. Speakers Prof. Bill Lazonick, Emeritus Professor in Economics "The political economy of the US pharmaceutical drug industry: opiods and regulatory failures" Dr. Chinazo Cunningham, physician and researcher, Prof of Medicine at Einstein/Montefiore "The effects of medical cannabis among adults with chronic pain …

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Paul Volcker and the Transformation of Finance

Virtual Project Virtual Project

New date announced! The Finance, Law, and Economics, and the Political Economy of Europe working groups are happy to host the third webinar from the series in preparation to our meeting with Andrea Enria, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB (which will be rescheduled according to the developments in the Covid-19 situation).The third …

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