José Félix Cataño, professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia's Department of Economics, will present his paper "La “economia del cuidado” de cierta “economía feminista”: una crítica desde la teoría económica de Marx.". The presentation will be in Spanish. José Félix Cataño, profesor de la facultad de ciencias económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, presentará …
Welcome back to Part 2 of the Money View Symposium. The initial Money View Symposium took place on the weekend of 5-7 February, 2020; you can find the recordings here. The Money View Symposium showcases work of scholars and practitioners that make use of the money view. We have a particular interest in seeing how …
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The Young Scholar Initiative (YSI) Economic History Working Group and the University of Santiago de Compostela are organizing a two-day workshop on 11-12 March. The theme will be "Magnifying Spaces of Capitalism: A Collective Experiment." In the wake of the recent and still-ongoing pandemic, the world has realized the importance of global interdependences and the …
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Welcome to week one of the Price Level (Fourth Price of Money) discussion and webinar group. We have a weekly standing video meeting time at 9 am Eastern Time (America/New York) every Saturday. For this coming Saturday, March 13th, we will be reading and discussing "Two routes back to the old Phillips curve: the amended …
We are glad to announce the third event of the Webinar series in 18th-Century History of Political Economy. Simon Adler will talk about Political Economy in the mid-18th Century Habsburg Monarchy by exploring the ideas of the Austrian Enlightenment economist Ludwig Zinzendorf. The webinar is open to everyone interested in the topic.You can join the …
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It is widely accepted that combating the COVID-19 pandemic requires a global collaborative effort and knowledge sharing to ease the development and distribution of new health technologies at affordable costs. However, in contrast, the world has witnessed the strengthening of Big Pharma companies together with "vaccine nationalism". While the rents of a few big pharmaceutical …
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Welcome to week two of the Price Level (Fourth Price of Money) discussion and webinar group. Our weekly standing video meeting time is 9 am Eastern Time (America/New York) every Saturday. For Saturday, March 20th, we will be continuing our discussion of "Two routes back to the old Phillips curve: the amended mainstream model and …
Minsky by Daniel H. Neilson --Flyer and discount code for book-- March, 24th March, 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm GMT / 6:00 pm CET (attention: switch to daylight savings time) Chapters discussedCh 1 - IntroductionCh 2 - Financial capitalismCh 3 - A payments theory of financeCh 4 - The inadequacy of economics
Juan Acosta (Universidad de los Andes) will present the paper “Six decades of economic research at the Bank of England,” coauthored with Beatrice Cherrier (CNRS; École Polytechnique), François Claveau (Université de Sherbrooke), Clément Fontan (UCLouvain; USL Bruxelles), Aurélien Goutsmedt (UQAM; Université de Sherbrooke), and Francesco Sergi (Université Paris Est Créteil). The presentation will be in …
It is that time of year again: mandate time! For those of you that are available, let's meet online for a casual chat and discuss what we have accomplished as a working group in 2020 and how we can channel the momentum gained from the previous year into 2021. We hope you'll join us in …
The Phillips curve posits a trade-off between inflation and unemployment and has long served as the workhorse model of inflation for most economists and Central Banks. Although the conceptual foundations of this relationship have been a subject of debate, the relationship seemed well-supported by the data for many decades. However, since the 1960s, the slope …
The outgoing YSI Community Board (formerly Community Report Committee) and the YSI Management team present the State of the Community Report, review responsibilities of the Board, and discuss possible future areas of focus for community development From 2016-2020, Asgeir B. Torfason, Maria C. Schweinberger, Melissa Vergarez Fernandez, Marcos Reis and Danilo Spinola served on the …
We are organizing a roundtable discussion on acceptances and Fed policy in the interwar period and we would be very glad if you find time to join us for an informal discussion on our ongoing research projects.Here are the main details: Time: Monday 29 March at 10:30 am ESTLength: 90minLocation: Online (Zoom)Host: Economic History Working …
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We are at the time of the year for our new mandate! Why do each working group need a mandate?What does the last year Financial Stability's mandate say? Read it here: https://ysi-workinggroups.storage.googleapis.com/financial-stability/4bbcffc9-90a1-1017-93d6-02da9da33c0eWhat do you think the 2021 mandate should say? Let's get together to talk about this issues, before we collect all the contribution made …
It is that time of year again: mandate time! For those of you that are available, let's meet online for a casual chat and discuss what we have accomplished as a working group in 2020 and how we can channel the momentum gained from the previous year into 2021.We hope you'll join us in helping …
The Keynesian Economics Working Group is pleased to have José Barrales-Ruiz giving an introductory lecture on Machine Learning for Economics on March 31st, 13 UTC. Join us! In very simple terms, Machine Learning is viewed as an econometric tool that builds algorithms to be applied to datasets. It has been increasingly used in economics, but …
Minsky by Daniel H. Neilson --Flyer and discount code for book-- March 31st, 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm GMT / 7:00 pm CET Chapters discussedCh 5 - Making the marketCh 6 - Last resortCh 7 - The resilience of economicsCh 8 - Minsky for all moments
Guys, We would like to invite you all to contribute to the document for this year’s mandate for the CEWG. We will hold a meeting to gather all the ideas on next Friday 2nd April at 16:30 CET. We want you to think about what would be interesting for you to work on in our …
This kick-off session is intended to: 1) Present the scope, the reading list and the session's plan for the Reading Group2) Discuss which aspects/discussions to focus throughout the sessions3) Opportunity to know each other
Hello Everyone! This is the second discussion session in our ongoing journey of exploring complexity! We will be referring Dr.Melanie Mitchell's book "Complexity: A guided tour" but our conversations will span over interesting questions and exchange of views. Hope to see you all join us on this exciting quest to understand complexity better!
