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project Series Financing The Future

Currency Plurality, is it possible? – Dr. Georgina M. Gomez

Virtual Project Virtual Project

In this opening session we begin with the foundation of all things financial: money. While money has provided an excellent means of expediting trade, there are many flaws in its foundation, mainly a system of repayment that relies on the expansion of empires and wealth that can be extracted (classically national, modernly corporate). Dr. Gomez …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

Making Money Book Discussion with Christine Desan

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Professor Desan joins us for a discussion about her book Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism. After reading Making Money, we look forward to discussing some of the themes and questions raised by the book and how they can help us understand money and the monetary system today. Christine Desan is the …

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project Series Expanding the frontiers of economics: Evidence from South Asia

Macroeconomics: Histories, Theories and Policies

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This session will discuss the main issues raised by Alex M Thomas in his most recent book Macroeconomics: An Introduction (2021), Cambridge University Press: UK. The book takes you through an alternative approach of understanding macroeconomics, which is inspired by the works of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Piero Sraffa. …

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project Series The 4th Price of Money and Theories of Inflation

John Hicks Discussion — What is Bad About Inflation?

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This our weekly discussion of the price level as it relates to Perry Mehrling's money view. The price level is the average price of goods in terms of money or, equivalently, the price of money in terms of goods. But what determines the price level? Why is the price level important? And how does it …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC

Week 9 — Lectures 15 & 16, Reading 8

Virtual Project Virtual Project

We're discussing the following for week 9: Lecture 15: Banks and Global Liquidity Lecture NotesApply the Treynor model to foreign exchange in a gold-standard world, with the gold points setting the outside spread. Gold parity must hold within that narrow band or you're off the gold standard. There are important differences between internal and external …

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International Workshop on Demand-Led Growth (Virtual) July 19-21, 2021

Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Just before the COVID Pandemic outbreak and its effects on the world economy, developed and developing countries were still struggling with high unemployment and sluggish growth rates. Nominal and real interest rates have reached markedly low levels with adverse effects on economic activity. Fiscal austerity measures seem to have prolonged and worsened the economic performance …

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First Young Scholars Conference on Structural Change and Industrial Policy

University of Johannesburg, Young Scholars Initiative Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Despite growth spurts covering over two decades across Africa, the economic structures of many African countries remain largely commodity based, without successful industrialisation. As a result, African countries continue to record significant balance of payment deficits as they import manufactured consumer and capital goods. The 2008 global financial crisis, and more recently the global economic …

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project Series Financing The Future

A Note on Extractive, and Exclusive Institutions – Prof. James A. Robinson

Virtual Project Virtual Project

In this session we examine historical examples of prosperity and ruin: what is the pattern shown here and can it be intentionally recreated or avoided? Presenting from his book “Why Nations Fail” James A. Robinson will present the key components that must be included within all political, and economic institutions for prosperity to flow. Armed …

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