This is the first of two sessions to discuss "Fighting Financial Crises: Learning from the Past" by Gary Gorton and Ellis Tallman. We will cover chapters 1-6 this first session. From the back cover:"If you’ve got money in the bank, chances are you’ve never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there …
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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This session covers Lecture 3: Money and the State: Domestic. The lecture gives us some practice using balance sheet notation to describe some of the historical US banking structures from the Allyn Young reading. This includes the National Banking System, which was the precursor to the Fed, as well as mechanism that Treasury Secretary Salmon …
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The special session will host Dr. Mihika Chatterjee. Dr. Chatterjee is departmental lecturer at Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. We are lucky to have Prof. Dr. Sony Pellissery, Director, Institute of Public Policy, and Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Bengaluru, as the discussant. Abstract Rents from …
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Jon Denton-Schneider, PhD Candidate from the University of Michigan will present his paper Colonial Institutions, Marriage Markets, and HIV: Evidence from Mozambique. ABSTRACT:During the colonial period, several types of extractive institutions organized much of economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Historians argued that two of them —one pushing men into circular migration and one restricting their …
The Keynesian Economics Working Group is glad to announce a new partnership with the Fifth Nordic Post-Keynesian Conference organized by The Macroeconomic Methodology, Theory and Economic Policy research group, at Aalborg University (MaMTEP). As part of this partnership, YSI will offer accommodation and partial travel stipends to selected young scholars who will present at the …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …