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YSI Event
Whatever happened to Economics?
Joint workshop of Rethinking Economics and the YSI Philosophy of Economics Working Group @ STOREP
YSI
WorkshopJun 27–30, 2018
From 28-30 June the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy will be gathering in Genova to ask the question “Whatever has happened to political economy?”. Before the start of the conference, Rethinking Economics and the YSI Philosophy of Economics Working Group will host a workshop to discuss a related question: “Whatever happened to economics?”. Professor Geoffrey Hodgson will participate in our discussion.
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Article
Money and the Unflappable Economist
Jun 25, 2018
The Koch brothers scandal at George Mason University
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News
Forbes on INET's Jim Chanos Interview
Jun 22, 2018
Forbes cites our interview with Jim Chanos on Bitcoin
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Article
Italy’s Crisis Is the Left’s Crisis
Jun 22, 2018
When politics is defined in terms of “populism” vs. “the mainstream,” the possibility for real economic reform is diminished.
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Article
A Poetic Challenge to Global Capitalism That Will Rend Your Heart
Jun 21, 2018
Edoardo Nesi’s new book tracks the destructive march of globalization and neoliberal capitalism through his own life and the places, like Italy, that lie broken in its wake.
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Article
The Dismal Science and the Beautiful Game
Jun 20, 2018
A light-hearted economic analysis of the World Cup
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Article
The American Behind the Deutsche Mark
Jun 20, 2018
70 years ago today, Edward A. Tenenbaum helped pull off an astounding feat—successfully reforming Germany’s currency after World War II
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Video
Another Financial Crisis Could Be Coming
Jun 20, 2018
Michael Greenberger says unregulated credit default swaps could take down the economy—and taxpayers—again
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Article
How the Largest Banks Are Leading Us to a New Financial Crisis
Jun 19, 2018
By evading regulation of credit default swaps, the major U.S. banks put taxpayers—and the entire economy—at risk
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News
NPR: INET Report Says Banks Taking Risks with Swaps
Jun 19, 2018
NPR’s All Things Considered features Michael Greenberger’s INET Working Paper on how banks evade credit default swaps regulation
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News
Bloomberg Features INET Swaps Research
Jun 19, 2018
Bloomberg covers Michael Greenberger’s paper for INET on how banks evade regulation of credit default swaps
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesToo Big to Fail Banks' Regulatory Alchemy
Jun 2018
Converting an Obscure Agency Footnote into an “At Will” Nullification of Dodd-Frank’s Regulation of the Multi-Trillion Dollar Financial Swaps Market
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YSI Event
YSI Workshop @ IAFFE
YSI
WorkshopJun 18–21, 2018
The YSI Gender and Economics Working Group will host a workshop during the pre-conference of the 27th IAFFE Annual Conference. Members of the Gender and Economics WG will also be welcomed to take part in the workshop and mentoring activities organized by IAFFE in the pre-conference.
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Article
Italy Holds A Mirror to a Broken Europe
Jun 14, 2018
The election of Italy’s right-wing, populist government exposes the economic and democratic shortcomings of the European project and its nationalist rivals
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YSI Event
Paradigms of Economic Policy: Examples and Lessons from the Nordics
YSI
WorkshopJun 14–15, 2018
The symposium focuses on the various paradigms of economic and social policy at work in the Scandinavian countries, in light of the most recent macroeconomic developments given by increased inequality, population ageing and automation.