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Working Paper No. 713
Control of Finance as a Prerequisite for Successful Monetary Policy
Henry Simons’s 1936 article “Rules versus Authorities in Monetary Policy” is a classical reference in the literature on central bank independence and rule-based policy. A closer reading of the article reveals a more nuanced policy prescription, with significant emphasis on the need to control short-term borrowing; bank credit is seen as highly unstable, and price […] -
Working Paper No. 713
Ο έλεγχος του χρηματικού κεφαλαίου ως προϋπόθεση για μια επιτυχημένη νομισματική πολιτική
To άρθρο του Henry Simons, με τίτλο «Rules versus Authorities in Monetary Policy» («Κανόνες έναντι εξουσιών στη νομισματική πολιτική»), που δημοσιεύθηκε το 1936, αποτελεί κεντρικό σημείο αναφοράς στη διεθνή βιβλιογραφία για την ανεξαρτησία της κεντρικής τράπεζας και τη διαμόρφωση της νομισματικής πολιτικής γύρω από κανόνες. Όμως, μια πιο προσεκτική ανάγνωση του άρθρου αποκαλύπτει μια πιο […] -
A Quick Boost for the Economy—a $12 Minimum Wage
The Real News Network, April 5, 2012. All original content copyright © The Real News Network. In an interview with TRNN’s Paul Jay, Senior Scholar James K. Galbraith offers a solution to boosting demand: raise the minimum wage. Full video and a transcript of the interview are available here. -
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Galbraith: How $12 Minimum Wage Could Boost Economy
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Summary No. 2
Summary Spring 2012
The Summary updates current Levy Institute research, with synopses of new publications, accounts of professional presentations by the research staff, and an overview of Levy Institute events. In this issue, papers survey the prospects of a new global financial crisis, propose a new institutional architecture and other solutions to the global debt crisis, quantify the […] -
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Leading Economists and Policymakers to Discuss Debt, Deficits, and Financial Instability at the Levy Economics Institute’s 21st Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, in New York City, April 11–12
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Working Paper No. 712
Shadow Banking and the Limits of Central Bank Liquidity Support
Global liquidity provision is highly procyclical. The recent financial crisis has resulted in a flight to safety, with severe strains in key funding markets leading central banks to employ highly unconventional policies to avoid a systemic meltdown. Bagehot’s advice to “lend freely at high rates against good collateral” has been stretched to the limit in […] -
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New Empirical Evidence of Long-lasting Effects of Mortgage Crisis
Debts left over on consumers’ balance sheets from the mortgage crisis have had particularly serious and long-lasting effects on the economic health of those localities where the crisis hit the hardest, according to what appears to be some interesting and important evidence discussed in an article in today’s New York Times. Of course, the notion [...] -
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Krugman vs Minsky: Who Should You Bank On When It Comes to Banking?
Last week I explained why Minsky matters, outlining his main contributions. This was, in part, a response to a blog post by Paul Krugman that appeared to dismiss the importance of trying to find out “what Minsky really meant.” But, more importantly, it was a response to his defense of a simple model of debt [...] -
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Change in the Age of Parasitic Capitalism
In his latest policy note, C. J. Polychroniou argues that the political and economic dominance of finance is pushing advanced liberal societies to a breaking point: The main problem is the power that finance capitalism exerts over domestic society and the abuses that it inflicts. Finance capitalism is economically unproductive (it does not create true [...] -
Working Paper No. 711
Global Financial Crisis
This paper provides a quick review of the causes of the Global Financial Crisis that began in 2007. There were many contributing factors, but among the most important were rising inequality and stagnant incomes for most American workers, growing private sector debt in the United States and many other countries, financialization of the global economy […] -
Working Paper No. 711
H παγκόσμια χρηματοοικονομική κρίση
Η παρούσα εργασία παρέχει μια γρήγορη επισκόπηση των αιτιών της παγκόσμιας χρηματοοικονομικής κρίσης που ξεκίνησε το 2007. Υπήρξαν πολλοί παράγοντες που συνέβαλαν στο ξέσπασμα της κρίσης, αλλά ανάμεσα στους πιο σημαντικούς ήταν η αυξανόμενη ανισότητα και τα στάσιμα εισοδήματα για τους περισσότερους αμερικανούς εργαζόμενους, το αυξανόμενο χρέος του ιδιωτικού τομέα στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες και σε […]