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“We need to figure out new ways to relate to the earth.”

The key issue is the regulation of the liquidity of all financial markets, and not just that of the banking system

It is not just all about banking system liquidity

The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

The Impact of Public Blockchains and Private Pools

Reinterpreting Bagehot’s mature work as the origin of the key currency tradition

Read in the context of his time, Bagehot’s book Lombard Street appears as an attempt above all to reveal the dynamic of globalization when global money was sterling.

An expert panel will discuss the latest research on the experiences of workers facing volatility of their time and income, how this volatility impacts their financial outcomes over time, ways current policies help or hinder workers cope with labor market volatility, and other possibilities for change.

Finance for the Rest of Us

When working within the same employment spell, female workers, particularly those of color and those working in low-wage service and care jobs, earn significantly less when facing greater volatility than their male counterparts or those working in non-service, non-care occupations.

Alessandro Roncaglia has mulled the topic of power over his long and distinguished career – a topic most economists avoid. His new book explores the historical dynamics of power and asks how we can change its distribution today.

Research on labor market experience does not explain the link between the volatility low-wage workers encounter and their earnings and it leaves open numerous pressing questions, such as what, if anything, can be done to reduce racial and ethnic differences in economic well-being.

Eric Laursen, author of The People’s Pension, explains to INET’s Lynn Parramore what’s at stake for Americans in a year of sneak attacks and misinformation.

Lenore Palladino explains how stock buybacks drive inequality, and why we desperately need a policy shift.