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The Credit–Money Hierarchy: a Republican , Egalitarian Appraisal

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We are discussing with Aaron James his new paper entitled "The Credit–Money Hierarchy: a Republican , Egalitarian Appraisal." https://www.dropbox.com/s/egdve0xeqxjkfwc/James_paper%20Credit-Money%20Hiearchy.docx?dl=0 James presented the paper at this month's "Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0" conference, which some of us attended. According to James, the paper describes "three ways 'intrinsic' moral considerations apply to the global credit-money hierarchy."

project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Midterm Review Lecture

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This session covers the Review Lecture for the first half of the course. NOTE: The videos for this lecture are not available on the BU site or the ColumbiaLearn YouTube playlist, but you can access them directly through the Coursera site or through the playlist linked above. The lecture gives a brief overview of the …

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Cooperatives Book Project Write Shop 3 (Data Analysis and Presentation)

Virtual Project Virtual Project

We invite young scholars who are interested in honing their writing skills to join the Cooperative Book Project Team for the Third write-shop on Data Analysis and Presentation. This comes after a string of seminars on writing on the functions of cooperatives in resource management. Everyone is welcome to join us. Dr. Emmanuel M.N.A.N. Attoh …

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YSI Day @ EPOG 2023

Certosa di Pontignano Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy

EPOG (Economic POlicies for the Global transition) is a master’s programme that has been created in 2012 with the support of the European Commission, under the “Erasmus Mundus Master’s Course” label. For eight cohorts (2013-2022), the programme has trained in political economy more than 250 outstanding students from all over the world, with a strong …

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YSI @ II Agent-Based Models in Economics Seasonal School 2023 | Sant’Anna

Scuola Superiori di Sant'Anna, Pisa. Piazza Martiri della Libertà, Pisa, Toscana, Italy

The economy is a complex and ever-changing system that requires sophisticated analytical tools to understand its many dimensions. As young researchers, we often grapple with how to account for heterogeneity, interactions, non-linearities, path-dependency, and tipping points, among other factors. That's where agent-based models come in. These powerful tools can help us tackle the complexity of …

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YSI @ II Agent-Based Models in Economics Seasonal School 2023 | Sant’Anna

Scuola Superiori di Sant'Anna, Pisa. Piazza Martiri della Libertà, Pisa, Toscana, Italy

The economy is a complex and ever-changing system that requires sophisticated analytical tools to understand its many dimensions. As young researchers, we often grapple with how to account for heterogeneity, interactions, non-linearities, path-dependency, and tipping points, among other factors. That's where agent-based models come in. These powerful tools can help us tackle the complexity of …

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ICA-YSI Young Scholars Workshop at the ICA CCR EU in Leuven

KU Leuven Sint-Michielsstraat, Leuven, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium

The ICA CCR European Research Conference is an opportunity to bring researchers in the cooperative sector together to share resources and provide an opportunity to foster new connections for potential future collaborations. For early career researchers in this field, this is an invaluable opportunity to connect with others who face similar challenges in conducting research …

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project Series Early Career Time

Strategies for Transforming Teaching Practices

Virtual Project Virtual Project

About this workshop: Join us in this interactive workshop as we explore the support and resources available for teaching new economic thinking. Jamie Barker from the Centre for Economy Studies will guide us through the options and materials available to us. Through practical insights and case studies, participants will gain strategies and tools to confidently …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Lecture 13

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 13: Chartallism, Metallism, and Key Currencies. Lecture 13 Notes In the first half of the course, we focused on two prices of money: par and interest rates. With the next four lectures, we explore a third price of money: foreign exchange. This allows us to revisit fundamental questions about the nature …

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project Series STI and Development Policy Experiences in LAC

Los retos del desarrollo económico desde el ejercicio de gobernar

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Please notice this event will be in Spanish only. En este webinario, Javiera Petersen es la invitada por Carlota Perez para una conversación sobre los desafíos de implementar políticas para el desarrollo en Chile. Javiera Petersen es actualmente subsecretaria (vice ministra) de Economía de Chile. Es ingeniera comercial de la Universidad de Chile y tiene …

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project Series Economics in Search of a Soul

Reading Group: Consciousness for the Post-Capitalist Commons

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Join us on 12 July 2023 at 11:00ET for our next reading group session. The session will be facilitated by Greg Wilpert, who will be presenting his work in progress, an upcoming book, titled: Consciousness for the Post-Capitalist Commons. Gregory Wilpert is deputy editor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He is a German-American …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2023)

Discussion — Lecture 14 & Reading 7: Robert Mundell

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 14: Money and the State: International and the Robert Mundell reading, which is a revised version of his 1999 Nobel Prize speech on the international monetary history of the 20th century. Lecture 14 Notes Mundell Study Questions Mundell divides the 20th century into three parts. He views the 19th-century gold standard …

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