ECLAC School of Latin American Development Studies (ELADES)

Santiago Province, Chile Cepal, San Joaquín, Región Metropolitana, Chile

The Latin America Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is supporting the Program for Advanced Studies on Latin American Economies (ELADES, in Spanish) and will organize activities during the School, which include feedback activities on Students' final work and a post-ELADES workshop in which students from the current program will be able to …

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project Series Financing The Future (Part 2)

Review & Prepare

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The creators of this event would like to host the YSI community in a recap of the previous sessions, and prepare for the next installment of the series. New to Financing the Future? Loved the first series? No matter your familiarity with the previous interviews, this session will fill you up on all the details …

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YSI @ ECOSOC Unschooling the Summer 2023

ECOSOC , Portugal

The Ecology and Society Workshop of the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (ECOSOC-CES), in co-organization with the Sustainability Working Group from Young Scholars Initiative, proposes to "un-school" the Summer, by walking, counter-mapping, performing. We will enjoy the summer heat and breeze of southwest Portugal to engage with the strong wave of movements and …

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Discussion — Lectures 15 & 16

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This session covers Lecture 15: Banks and Global Liquidity and Lecture 16: Foreign Exchange Lecture 15 Notes Lecture 16 Notes Lecture 15 uses the context of a 19th-century gold-standard world to introduce the Treynor model to foreign exchange markets. We flesh out the international dimension to what we covered in Lecture 9. FX dealers operate …

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Socio-economic policies in Latin America: challenges and opportunities.

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

The Economics of Innovation, Economic Development and States & Markets working groups of the Young Scholars Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (YSI/INET) are glad to announce a workshop on Socio-economic policies in Latin America to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the 19th of July 2023 at the Federal University …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

The Currency of Politics | Session 2

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This is the second of three sessions on Stefan Eich's 2022 book The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes. https://www.amazon.com/Currency-Politics-Political-Theory-Aristotle/dp/0691191077/ From the Description: Stefan Eich examines six crucial episodes of monetary crisis, recovering the neglected political theories of money in the thought of such figures as Aristotle, John Locke, …

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Discussion — Reading 8: Charles P. Kindleberger

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This session covers Reading 8: The Dollar and World Liquidity: A Minority View, a 1966 article by Charles P. Kindleberger, Walter Despres, and Walter S. Salant, which originally appeared in The Economist. By viewing the United States as a bank to the rest of the world, Kindleberger tries to allay concerns about a U.S. balance-of-payments …

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The 5th Africa Young Scholars Workshop on Cooperatives and Cooperation

The Co-operative University of Kenya Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya

The Co-operative University of Kenya (CUK) International Conference is an opportunity for researchers in the cooperative movement in Africa to share resources and provide opportunity to create new alliances and future collaborations. Its is an opportunitu for early career researchers on the continent of Africa to connect with others who face similar challenges in conducting …

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YSI Panel – International Workshop on Demand-Led Growth: Money & Finance

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Avenida Pasteur, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The 4th International Workshop on Demand-led Growth: "Money and Finance" will be held on July 26-27, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. This year’s theme of the Workshop is "Money and Finance,” believing that monetary and financial issues can have long-lasting effects on economic growth and employment. There are many possible interrelations between demand-led …

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Discussion — Lectures 17 & 18

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This session covers Lecture 17: Direct and Indirect Finance and Lecture 18: Forwards and Futures. Lecture 17 Notes Lecture 18 Notes Lecture 17—starting with a simple description of "traditional" commercial banks—describes the evolution and emergence of shadow banking as the money market and capital market became intertwined through an iterative process of intermediation and disintermediation. …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

Public Purpose Finance

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During this off-week, Nadav Orian Peer joins us to discuss his 2020 paper, "Public Purpose Finance: The Government's Role as Lender" as well as the Perry Mehrling paper, "The State as Financial Intermediary," the ideas of which his paper expanded on. Public Purpose Finance: The Government's Role as Lender by Nadav Orian Peer (2020) The …

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