Past Events
Please find links to all our past events stretching right back to 2005.
17th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference: Credit, Markets, and the Real Economy Is the Financial System Working?
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York April 17–18, 2008 The focus of this year’s conference was the current economic and financial crisis in the United States and…more
16th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference: Global Imbalances Prospects for the U.S. and World Economies
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York April 19–20, 2007 The 2007 Hyman P. Minsky Conference drew upon public discussions on the United States and world economies in…more
Employment Guarantee Policies: Theory and Practice
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York October 13–14, 2006 This conference focused on those government policy initiatives that can create a safety net through public service employment…more
Gender Equality, Tax Policies, and Tax Reform in Comparative Perspective
This symposium focused on the gender dimensions of tax policy and tax reforms in countries at different levels of development. Topics included gender biases in direct taxation (including biases in…more
Government Spending on the Elderly
The aging of the American population will be a primary domestic public policy issue during the next decades. According to Census Bureau projections, the proportion of the elderly in the…more
Time Use and Economic Well-Being
This conference was part of the Levy Institute’s research and policy program of the distribution of income and wealth. Its purpose was to cover issues and topics related to time…more
UNDP/BDP Levy Conference: Unpaid Work and the Economy ;Gender, Poverty, and the Millennium Development Goals
Organized by Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme, in partnership with the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York October…more