Archive
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Conference Session
An Interview With Sarah Bloom Raskin
May 5, 2015 | 12:00—12:30
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Conference Session
Concluding Remarks
May 5, 2015 | 12:30—01:00
Closing remarks at the 2015 Finance & Society conference in Washington D.C.
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Article
Want to Take on Financial and Governmental Corruption? Hire Women.
May 5, 2015
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Webinars and Events
Finance & Society
ConferenceMay 5–6, 2015
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen, and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde joined a renowned group of globally influential women in discussing how the financial system can be re-imagined to truly benefit society.
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Conference Session
Finance & Society
May 4, 2015 | 02:30—05:30
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Video
Breaking the Glass Ceiling
May 3, 2015
Whilst progress has been made, the “glass ceiling” dividing men and women has yet to be broken definitively. Monika Queisser discusses the challenges still facing women in the workplace and beyond.
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Article
How Sociologists Think About Inequality
May 1, 2015
Most sociologists believe that formal and informal institutions are more critical in explaining the rising inequality observed in advanced economies. In this light, changing institutions such as the ascendance of shareholder-centered corporate governance model, finance-friendly policies since the late 70s, credentialism, and deunionization all contribute to the earnings dynamics at different parts of the distribution.
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Working Paper
Working paperInput Diffusion and the Evolution of Production Network
Apr 2015
The adoption and diffusion of inputs in the production network is at the heart of technological progress. What determines which inputs are initially considered and eventually adopted by innovators? We examine the evolution of input linkages from a network perspective, starting from a stylized model of network formation.
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Working Paper
Working paperLaid Low: The IMF, The Eurozone and the First Rescue of Greece
Apr 2015
As Greece descended into a financial maelstrom in the spring of 2010, a small group of staffers at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held top-secret talks with officials from the German and French finance ministries to discuss the idea of restructuring Greece’s debt.
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Video
Women, Finance & Society
Apr 27, 2015
Gudrun Johnsen on Iceland, “womenomics”, and Finance & Society
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Article
Why journal editors should commission history papers for their anniversary issues
Apr 23, 2015
Writing the history of economic journals is not merely a way to reconstruct the development of new fields and new approaches to economics. It also recasts current debates on peer-review, retractions, open-access, replicability, and bias in scientific publishing in a wider perspective. It answers important questions on the influence of editors, publishers and referees on the development or marginalization of various economic approaches. But such endeavour requires the preservation of journals’ archives, the recognition of historical expertise, and economists’ adoption of a more relaxed and humble approach to their history.
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Article
History as Personal Expression — a personal note
Apr 22, 2015
Economists and historians of economics have constructed different (and sometimes conflicting) narratives about the past of their field. In fact what is history for economists may not be what is history for historians. To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the Economic Journal invited renowned economists to discuss important contributions published in the past by the journal and the works on similar topics by historians of economics are absent from these accounts. History of economics here seems to have the weight of a JEL descriptor attached to an invited contribution, which we ought to agree that it is not much.
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Article
Our Banking System is a Giant House of Cards
Apr 21, 2015
It Could Fall On You.
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Article
New Climate-Economic Thinking
Apr 21, 2015
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Video
Income Inequality in Europe
Apr 19, 2015
A member of the Austrian Central Bank tells us his research on wealth and income inequality in Europe.