Introduction As we emerge from the current recession caused by the novel Coronavirus and learn how to live in a post-pandemic world, climate action is one of our greatest challenge as well as an opportunity. We will be looking for a vaccine to protect ourselves, not only from Covid-19, but also from the advance effects …
Young Scholars Workshop on Co-operative Inclusion; Post-Covid-19 World Read More »
The Master's Degree in Economic Development (MDE) and the Center for Development Economic Studies (CEED) of the Institute of High Social Studies (IDAES) of the National University of San MartÃn (UNSAM), with the support of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), invite advanced students and recent graduates of Economics and related majors from all over the …
Winter School “Tópicos Avanzados de EconomÃa Heterodoxa” Read More »
Link to the event: https://youngscholarsinitiative.zoom.us/j/97161987995?pwd=Wk9zQ3g4VldNano5Slp4WU05M0h6QT09 Political Economy is back on the agenda in law, and law shows renewed importance in finance. What lessons have we learned from past engagement and struggle? Where are we currently? In what ways is the conversation stuck? How can we transition from conversation to action? Format: Introduction (5 minutes), Panel …
Political Economy and Law: Where We Are, Where We Should Be Going Read More »
LINK TO THE SESSION: https://youngscholarsinitiative.zoom.us/j/94528735047?pwd=K3doV3drU0hNZEQzOXdXd0I0WVQrQT09Our focus on structures and power must go further to evaluate the dynamics of injustice baked into law and political economy. That includes foregrounding the ways in which capitalism is thoroughly raced and gendered, both in domestic and global politics. The ongoing legacies of colonialism, for example, are often discounted in …
How do we get to social and economic justice? How does that goal look like? Read More »
With Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute This final session will examine the needs of our modern, globally connected civilization that current, antiquated approaches to economics simply cannot meet. Examining what we have learned so far, how would money need to be changed to better serve the needs of our modern world? …
Inventing Inclusive Monetary Solutions – Mr. Andrew Sheng Read More »
How do we currently understand the dynamics of markets and workplaces, and how may we imagine restructuring them concretely for a more egalitarian and sus-tainable democratic future? What ways are most productive for understanding market institutions, market actors and workplace contexts? What is the place of finance and money in accounts of production and society? …
How do we currently understand the dynamics of markets and workplaces? Read More »
Central banks are increasingly exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and the topic often comes up in other discussions on money and banking. For this session we want to take some time to more directly discuss CBDC and some of the main questions around the topic, such as: What is a money view read on …
A Money View Discussion on Central Bank Digital Currencies Read More »
What are the key tipping points in digital technology, and how may we engage and shape the next generation technologies to support democratic outcomes?Digital technologies are often discussed as unprecedented disruption to all areas of society. Scholars debate the benefits and costs of different innovations and express a range of feelings about its utopian and …
How may we shape the future technologies to support democratic outcomes? Read More »
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 …
Discussion of July 16th House of Lords Report on QE Read More »
We're discussing the following for week 11: Lecture 19: Interest Rate Swaps NOTE: Part 4 of this lecture is missing from Perry Mehrling's site and the YouTube playlist. Here's a direct link.Part 4: What is a Swap Lecture Notes Selling an IRS is like borrowing in the repo market to finance the holding of a …
The State and geopolitics in a post-pandemic world Speakers: *Jayati Ghosh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Victor Ramiro Fernández (Universidad Nacional del Litoral/CONICET) Adam Tooze (Columbia University)* Chair: **Pablo Bortz (Universidad Nacional del Oeste/CONICET)
Emerging scholars submit papers, which will be peer reviewed by two es-tablished academics. The respective author and reviewers will meet in sep-arate breakout rooms. The session will be run based on the Institute for Global and Policy (IGLP) general workshop format and will follow 2-3 minutes for author to situate the work, 15 minutes from …
Emerging Scholarship Mentorship and Writing Workshop Read More »
The Keynesian Economics Working Group is glad to announce the III YSI Alumni Workshop at the V Summer School on Keynesian Theory and the IXX Brazilian Keynesian Association Annual Meeting. Our Workshop will take place on August 2nd, 2021, and will be followed by the School and the Brazilian Keynesian Association Annual Meeting. Due to …
III YSI Alumni Workshop @ Brazilian Keynesian Association Meeting | Online Read More »
This is the second of three sessions to discuss the 1960 book Money in a Theory of Finance by John Gurley and Edward Shaw. For this session, we will discuss chapters 4 and 5. Book Description from Perry Mehrling's Money & Banking MOOC: "This book was significant for bringing money back into economics in 1960, …
What to do in face of the new paradigm? Industrial policies for developing countries in times of Industry 4.0 The two previous meetings of this webinar aim to provide an overview of what is understood by Industry 4.0 and its implications for developing countries. This meeting will focus on which the available policy options are …
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 …
Discussion of Monetary Architecture with Steffen Murau Read More »
We're discussing the following for week 12: Lecture 21 Shadow Banking, Central Banking, and Global Finance Lecture SlidesEverything in the shadow-banking system is a market price. Derivative dealers and their swap books are central to the modern market-based shadow-banking system. It's the derivative dealers who need a backstop. Lecture 22: Touching the Elephant: Three Views …
The YSI Latin America Working Group happily announces a special session to be held during the 2nd Unicamp International School on Development Challenges – Different Dimension of Inequality. We invite students of the 1st Unicamp International School on Development Challenges to submit their work (paper or thesis chapter - work in progress are allowed) to …
YSI Special Session – Unicamp International School – Development Challenges Read More »
Daniel Zarama (Universidad de los Andes) will present the paper "Evolutionism and Politics: Hayek’s Turn Towards Individual Experience". The discussion will be in English. You can download Daniel's paper here.
This session will discuss the recent paper written by Suborna Barua, Rubaiyat Shaimom Chowdhury and Sonia Rezina, titled, "One year of fighting the Covid-19 Pandemic: An analysis of policy plurality and response performance of emerging economies". The speaker for the Session: Suborna Barua Abstract Emerging economies face resource availability and allocation constraints in responding to …
Fighting the Pandemic: Policy Plurality and Response Performance Read More »
In this session we will discuss the Zimbabwean experience with hyperinflation which began in the 2000s. Introducing us to the topic are Ushehwedu Kufakurinani's working papers, which you can find here. From hyperinflation to liquidity crunch: Money Doctors and the Zimbabwean Economic Experience, 2008 to 2015AbstractThis paper examines Zimbabwe’s journey from hyperinflation to liquidity crunch …
The hyperinflation in Zimbabwe | Ushehwedu Kufakurinani Read More »
To wrap up this run-through of the MOOC, we'll we'll review any remaining questions and thoughts people, including comments and replies from the Reddit discussions. Ahead of this discussion we'll read Perry Mehrling's new intro for the Japanese edition of The New Lombard Street that he wrote in May. Did we get what wanted out …
This is the third of three sessions to discuss the 1960 book Money in a Theory of Finance by John Gurley and Edward Shaw. For this session, we will discuss chapters 4 and 5. Book Description from Perry Mehrling's Money & Banking MOOC: "This book was significant for bringing money back into economics in 1960, …
Today we'll recap our session from the previous week and deepen our discussion of the Zimbabwean hyperinflation.
The Latin America and Economics of Innovation Working Groups (LAWG-EIWG) invites you to the VI International Meeting of Economics (VI Encuentro de EconomÃa), organized by the Department of Quantitative Economics (DEC) of the National Polytechnic School (EPN) of Quito, Ecuador. The Meeting is a biannual event that seeks to contribute to the economic debate through …
VI International Meeting of Economics DEC-EPN Ecuador (ONLINE) Read More »
From the book description:"In this magisterial account of the Great Depression, MIT economist Charles Kindleberger emphasizes three factors that continue to shape global financial markets: panic, the power of contagion, and importance of hegemony." This week's reading: Chapter 1 - IntroductionChapter 2 - Recovery from the First World WarChapter 3 - The BoomChapter 4 - …
The World in Depression, 1929-1939 by Charles P. Kindleberger | Session 1 Read More »
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 …
We are delighted to have Aqdas Afzal, the Program Director and Assistant Professor at the Social Development and Policy Program at Habib University in Karachi, Pakistan, who will be speaking on Reimaging the IMF for a New Economic World Order. We also extremely lucky to have Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at UMass Amherst as …
Reimaging the IMF for a New Economic World Order Read More »