History
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Conference paper
Combining International Monetary Reform with Commodity Buffer Stocks : Keynes, Graham and Kaldor
Apr 2011
Central to John Maynard Keynes (1941) original Bretton Woods proposal was an international clearing union that would issue a new international currency by fiat called bancor. Among other functions, this international central bank would finance the stabilization of individual commodity prices through commodity buffer stocks.
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Conference paper
The Keynes Plan, The Marshall Plan And The IMCU Plan; Designing the Future International Payments System using the Past Principles of Keynes's Liquidity Theory and Soros's Reflexivity
Apr 2011
For more than three decades, orthodox economists, policy makers in government and central bankers and their economic advisors, using some variant of old classical economic theory [OCET], have insisted that (1) government regulations of markets and large government spending policies are the cause of all our economic problems and (2) ending big government and freeing markets, especially financial markets, from government regulatory controls is the solutionto our economic problems, domestically and internationally.
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Conference paper
It May be Our Currency, but It’s Your Problem
Apr 2011
It’s a singular honor to have been asked to deliver the Butlin Lecture. I first met Noel Butlin when I had the pleasure of visiting Australian National University for two months in what was, from my perspective, the summer of 1985.
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Conference paper
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Once Again
Apr 2011
Some questions can only be answered by educated guess. The question at the centre of this round table pertains to this category. We should not be ashamed of this kind of limitation of our capacity to predict the future.
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The Emerging Economic And Political Order: What Lies Ahead?
Apr 7, 2011 | 11:15—01:00
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Bretton Woods Conference: Historical Review
Apr 7, 2011 | 02:30—04:30
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
Apr 7, 2011 | 11:00—11:15
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How the West is Repeating Japan's Mistakes
Feb 24, 2011
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Big Money, Mass Media, and the Polarization of Congress
Jan 11, 2011
Paper presented at Bretton Woods Conference
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Years granted:
2011
Paul Samuelson and the Keynesian Golden Age
This research project develops a much better understanding of Paul Samuelson’s life, work, and broader political-economic vision through archival research at Duke University’s Paul Samuelson archives.
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Reforming Economic Theory
Apr 22, 2010
Joseph Stiglitz at the Institute’s debut conference in Cambridge, UK (2010).
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Conference paper
Political Economy of Controlling Systemic Risk: What Governments Can Do Vs. What Governments Are Willing to Do
Apr 2010
In directing panelists to distinguish between what governments “can” and “will” do, this session’s title frames economic policymaking as a balancing act. Principled efforts to define and pursue the public interest are contested and repeatedly knocked off course by conflictingpersonal, bureaucratic, and political concerns that impinge on government decisionmakers.
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Conference paper
When Wolves Cry “Wolf”: Systemic Financial Crises and the Myth of the Danaid Jar
Apr 2010
Financial crises are staggeringly costly. Only major wars rival them in the burdens they place on public finances.
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Conference paper
Marcello De Cecco: Political Economy: What Can Government Do? What Will Government Do?
Apr 2010
The crisis of the export led model in the EMU countries and its monetary and financial consequences on European integration.
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Political Economy: What Can Government Do? What Will Government Do?
Apr 9, 2010 | 12:15—02:05