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project Series Health Economics and Policy in South Asia

Working towards universal health access in India

Virtual Project Virtual Project

Speaker: Prof. Shamika Ravi About the speaker Dr. Shamika Ravi is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution Washington D.C. She was the former Director of Research at Brookings India and her research focuses on economics of development including areas of finance, health, urbanization and gender inequality. Dr. Ravi …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Reading 5: John Hicks

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Reading 5: Three chapters from A Market Theory of Money by John Hicks (1989) In these three chapters, Hicks starts with the idea that the primary function of money is to serve as a "standard of value" for the market. From there, he argues that the institution of banking as market making …

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Pre-WEHC Young Scholars Workshop

Salle 50, Centre des colloques Aubervilliers, Île-de-France, France

The YSI Economic History (EH) and YSI Africa Working Groups will lead a young scholar workshop at the occasion of the World Economic History Congress in Paris this summer. The WEHC is the major international event for our international community. The workshop offers a one-day experience for early-career researchers with mentorship from the YSI EH …

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The Role of Worker Cooperatives in the Post Covid-19 Recovery

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

Introduction In this moment of crisis, worker cooperatives are a reliable, proven solution to address the loss of jobs and income inequality. COVID-19 has devastated the small business community, and the clock is ticking on permanent shutdowns of small businesses. 45 percent of businesses believe they have less than six months until a permanent shutdown …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

The Money Problem | Session 1

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This is the first of two sessions for reading and discussing Morgan Ricks' book The Money Problem. In this session we will cover the Introduction and Part 1 (through chapter 4). From the jacket:"Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 11: Banks and the Market for Liquidity

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 11: Banks and the Market for Liquidity This lecture generalizes the Treynor model from security dealers to money dealers and explores the question of why it's profitable for banks to run the payment system at par when prices can't adjust and there's no bid/ask spread. We also talk about how the …

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5th Workshop on New Developmentalism

Itapeva St., 432, 4th floor São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil

The outbreak of covid-19, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and the slowdown of important global economies such as the USA and China have brought new economic difficulties to all countries in the world, but especially to developing countries. Do these new difficulties intensify or bring new possibilities for catch-up strategies for developing countries? Conventional economic theory has …

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project Series Dissecting capitalism: Season II

Indian Capitalism from the Field

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session of the webinar series will feature Prof. Barbara Harriss-White. She is the Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College , Oxford University and a Visiting professor at JNU. Abstract While Polanyi argued that a society dominated by market exchange – market society – was a dehumanised contradiction in terms, both …

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5th UNCTAD YSI Summer School

ONLINE Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

The summer school is held fully online The 5th UNCTAD YSI Summer School provides an opportunity to explore the Challenges and Opportunities of a New International Economic Order. The school will bring together UNCTAD experts, academics, diplomats, and young scholars from across the globe for lively and stimulating intellectual debates. The world economy is in …

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project Series Keynesian Economics Debate Group

KEDG – 4th meeting

Virtual Project Virtual Project

May 11th Nikolas Schiozer: "Price formation, income inequality and macroeconomic performance as coevolutionary phenomena in an agent-based model" May 19th Apurva Ashish Tudekar "IMPACT OF CURRENT ACCOUNT IMBALANCE ON UNEMPLOYMENT" June 8th Lilian Nogueira Rolim "The impact of international trade shocks on economic growth and income distribution in an agent-based macroeconomic model" July 6th Simon …

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