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Understanding Economic Theory and Development in a Sraffian Framework

University of Hyderabad Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Theme: Engaging with Piero Sraffa’s Contributions to Economic Theory and Development: On the Occasion of the 62nd anniversary of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities Neoclassical economics continues to dominate contemporary economics teaching and research, despite the 2007 Global Financial Crisis posing a serious challenge to the Neoclassical understanding. While there have been several …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 21: Shadow Banking, Central Banking, Global Finance

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 21 Shadow Banking, Central Banking, and Global Finance Everything in the shadow-banking system is a market price. The lecture emphasizes the central role of derivative dealers and their swap books in the modern market-based credit system. We examine more of the details of how the shadow banking system collapsed onto the …

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Global South Postgraduate Capacity Building Workshop

Stellenbosch University Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

The academic terrain poses challenges for PhD students across the world. The situation is worse for Global South with challenges ranging from funding, inadequate knowledge on grant application writing, technicalities on publications, mentorship on thesis writing, and networking. This has been worsened by the ailing economies of most African countries, which has limited these students, …

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project Series Emerging Cooperative Research Issues; Challenges for Early Careers

Emerging Cooperative Research Issues: Early Careers Challenges

Virtual Project Virtual Project

In the last quarter of a century, the cooperative movement attracted more members than it did in its known history. This growth in acceptance means improved integration of cooperatives into socio-economic development policies at all tiers of policy making and execution. Notwithstanding this impressive trend, there are associated challenges on multiple fronts. Principal among these …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Reading 11: Shadow Banking

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Reading 11: Bagehot Was a Shadow Banker: shadow banking, Central Banking, and the Future of Global Finance by Mehrling, Pozsar, Sweeney, and Neilson (2014) NOTE: The above link is the final published 2014 version of the paper instead of the 2013 version included in the Coursera materials. Mehrling says that this paper …

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project Series YSI Community Call

November Community Call | Ft. Maria Cecilia del Barrio Arleo

Virtual Project Virtual Project

YSI Community Call Whether you're brand new to the community, or a long-time YSI'er, the monthly community call is a chance to (re)connect with other members, and let yourself be inspired by your peers. This Month's Alumni Highlight: Maria Cecilia del Barrio Arleo Cecilia obtained her PhD from the School of International Studies at the …

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project Series Money View Reading Group

Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System | Part 1

Virtual Project Virtual Project

In this book, Perry Mehrling traces the evolution of Charles P. Kindleberger's thinking in the context of a 'key-currency' approach to the rise of the dollar system, here revealed as the indispensable framework for global economic development since World War II. In this first session we will discuss: Introduction Part I: Intellectual Formation, 1910-1948Ch. 1: …

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project Series REPLICATE REPLICATE – HOW YOU CAN TAKE PART

S9: Student Replication on Minimum Wage in Latin America

Virtual Project Virtual Project

SESSION 9: STUDENT REPLICATION ON MINIMUM WAGE IN LATIN AMERICA Presentation by Oscar Jaramillo (Torcuato de Tella University, Buenos Aires)Dec 1, 2022 at 12pm Colorado (US)/ 2pm Quito (EC), Bogotá (CO) New York (US)/ 4pm Buenos Aires (AR)/ 7pm Lisbon (PT)/ 8pm Berlin (DE) ARTICLE BEING REPLICATED: Orlando J.Sotomayor (2021), “Can the minimum wage reduce …

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project Series Economics of Money and Banking MOOC (2022)

Discussion — Lecture 22: Touching the Elephant: Three Views

Virtual Project Virtual Project

This session covers Lecture 22: Touching the Elephant: Three Views The lecture ties the money view into the "economics view" and "finance view" of money and banking. The economics view explains how the past determines the present. The finance view explains how the future determines the present. The money view explains how the present—by virtue …

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Credit Markets and Policies in South Asia: Issues and Challenges

Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

Access to credit is an essential tool to empower poor and marginalised groups, especially women, to challenge social stratification, overcome poverty and manage social risks. Besides the weak and vulnerable, the states, small, medium, and large business entities also depend on credit for day-to-day operation, expansion, improvement, and welfare. During the Covid-19 pandemic, economies of …

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PhD Workshop in Economics of Innovation, Knowledge and Complexity (WICK#10)

Collegio Carlo Alberto Piazza Vincenzo Arbarello, Torino, Piemonte, Italy

The Workshop in Economics of Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge (WICK#10) for doctoral students and young researchers is jointly organized by the Vilfredo Pareto Doctoral Program in Economics - University of Turin, BRICK and the YSI Complexity Economics Working Group, and each year it attracts about 20 young researchers in Economics and Social Sciences from all …

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