Money, Finance, and Economic Strategies in Fractured Times | 32nd Annual Conference

We are excited to announce that the 32nd Annual Levy Economics Institute Conference, Money, Finance, and Economic Strategies in Fractured Times, will be returning as an in-person event on Monday, June 16, 2025. The conference will take place on the Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

This year’s annual conference will feature panels on Minskyan analyses of current sources of financial fragility; new directions in public finance; visions for the next progressive policy agenda; climate finance, balance of payments constraints, and the global economy; and more.

Keynote Speaker: US House Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17)

THE FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM CAN BE FOUND HERE

 

Program

Session 1: Beyond Minsky Moments

• Daniel Alpert, Westwood Capital | How Minsky’s Money Manager Capitalism Will Frustrate the Purported Goals of US Economic Nationalism
  • Remarks in PDF
• Leila Davis, University of Massachusetts Boston | The Evolution of Minsky Regimes in the US Nonfinancial Corporate Sector
  • Remarks in PDF
• Rogerio Studart, Brazilian Center for International Relations | Financing Development in Times of Climate Crisis: A Minskyan Approach
  • Remarks in PDF
• Moderator: Talmon Joseph Smith, The New York Times

Session 2: Economic Policy in the Age of Trump

• Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Levy Institute | Pocketbook Economics and the American Voter
  • Remarks in PDF
• James K. Galbraith, University of Texas at Austin | What Is Economic Policy For?
• L. Randall Wray, Levy Institute | Should We Worry About the Deficit(s)? An MMT-Minsky Perspective
  • Remarks in PDF
• Moderator: Ryan Cooper, The American Prospect

Keynote Address: Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17)

• Moderator: Alan Minsky, Progressive Democrats of America

Session 3: US Policy and the Global Economy

• Giuliano T. Yajima, Levy Institute | Prospects for the US Economy
  • Remarks in PDF
• Yan Liang, Willamette University | How China Organizes Finance Domestically and Keeps Foreign Capital at Bay
• Ndongo Samba Sylla, International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs-Africa) | Critically Thinking About Monetary Sovereignty and Balance-of-Payments Constraints in Africa
• Fadhel Kaboub, Denison University | Global South Joint Industrial Policies
• Moderator: Edward Harrison, Bloomberg News