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Event26th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference
A conference organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Blithewood Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 April 18–19, 2017 The 2017 Minsky Conference addressed...more Event -
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Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Aspects of Policy Interventions to Reduce the Burden of Unpaid Activities
Accra, Ghana May 7, 2019 The Levy Institute, with the generous support of the Hewlett Foundation, is organizing a workshop titled “Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Aspects of Policy Interventions to Reduce...more Event -
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2022 Summer Seminar
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Blithewood Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. June 11–18, 2022 The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College held its summer seminar, June 11–18, 2022. Through lectures, hands-on workshops,...more Event -
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Working the Program: Employment and Poverty Governance in Criminal Justice Treatment for Women
Join us for our second session with Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology at Bard College, on Wednesday, December 6, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on...more Event -
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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 Event -
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19th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference: After the Crisis—Planning a New Financial Structure
A conference organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford foundation Ford Foundation New York City April 14–16, 2010 From his extensive research, Hyman...more Event -
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21st Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference: Debt, Deficits, and Financial Instability
A conference organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford Foundation Ford Foundation New York City April 11–12, 2012 In April 2012, leading policymakers,...more Event -
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What Economists Can Learn from Human Rights Law
Presented by the Bard College Economics Program and the Levy Economics Institute Room 102, Hegeman Hall, Bard College May 5, 2013, 4:45 p.m. Philip L. Harvey is professor of law and...more Event -
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Europe at the Crossroads: A Union of Austerity or Growth Convergence?
Coorganized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and Economia Civile with support from the Ford Foundation, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, and Marinopoulos AE Megaron Athens International Conference Centre Athens, Greece...more Event -
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Distributional Impacts of Climate Policy: A Comprehensive Approach
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York September 11, 2015 The purpose of the workshop is to present the Inequality Impact Assessment (IIA) model as well as preliminary...more Event -
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Gender and Macroeconomics
Convene Conference Center 101 Park Avenue, New York City September 13–15, 2017 A workshop organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with the generous support of The William...more Event -
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The Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Blithewood Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. June 7–13, 2020 After careful consideration and consultation, the 11th Minsky Summer Seminar, scheduled from June 7–13, 2020, has been canceled...more Event -
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Gender Inequalities and Economic Theory and Policies for a Post-Pandemic World
Blithewood Annandale-on-Hudson, NY September 21–23, 2022 A workshop organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with the generous support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation The goal...more Event -
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Phillips Curve Still Alive for Compensation?
May 13, 2014 On reading a recent post by Ed Dolan at Economonitor with some evidence of the lack of a strong Phillips relationship for consumer-price inflation in US data, it occurred to me to try a measure of total compensation per hour with recent data. The wage relationship estimated over all available quarters, using averaged monthly observations [...] Blog -
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What Are Taxes For? The MMT Approach
May 16, 2014 Previously we have argued that “taxes drive money” in the sense that imposition of a tax that is payable in the national government’s own currency will create demand for that currency. Sovereign government does not really need revenue in its own currency in order to spend. This sounds shocking because we are so accustomed to [...] Blog -
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Is Inequality Holding Back the Recovery?
May 21, 2014 “The biggest obstacle to a sustainable recovery,” according to the Levy Institute’s newest strategic analysis of the US economy, “is the inequality in the distribution of income.” In their latest, Dimitri Papadimitriou, Michalis Nikiforos, Gennaro Zezza, and Greg Hannsgen begin with a familiar point: the Congressional Budget Office has been predicting fairly rosy economic growth [...] Blog -
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An Employment Safety Net for Youth
May 22, 2014 Pavlina Tcherneva participated in a conference on youth unemployment at Middlebury College and shared her ideas for a youth employment safety net (beginning at 38:45): [iframe src=”//player.vimeo.com/video/89719577?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0″ width=”450″ height=”253″ frameborder=”0″ webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe] Blog -
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Is the Eurozone Crisis Really Over?
May 23, 2014 Economic pundits who predicted the collapse of the euro at the start of the eurozone crisis have been proven wrong. But those who say the crisis is over are equally wrong. Four years after the start of the euro crisis, the bailed-out countries of the eurozone (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain) are still facing serious [...] Blog -
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Bubbles and Piketty: An Interview with L. Randall Wray
May 29, 2014 L. Randall Wray appeared on Thom Hartmann’s radio show yesterday for a lengthy and wide-ranging interview: [iframe width=”480″ height=”270″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/q8YND_N_6ms?feature=player_detailpage” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] Blog -
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Taxes and the Public Purpose
May 30, 2014 In previous installments we have established that “taxes drive money.” What we mean by that is that sovereign government chooses a money of account (Dollar in the USA), imposes obligations in that unit (taxes, fees, fines, tithes, tolls, or tribute), and issues the currency that can be used to “redeem” oneself in payments to the [...] Blog -
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Working Paper Roundup 6/4/2014
June 04, 2014 Monetary Mechanics: A Financial View Éric Tymoigne “This paper presents an alternative framework that can be used to analyze monetary systems by drawing on the work of Smith, MacLeod, Knapp, Innes, Hawtrey, Keynes, Murad, Olivecrona, Wray, and Ingham, among others. The analysis asks what “money” is instead of what “money” does. Monetary instruments are not [...] Blog -
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Creationism versus Redemptionism: How a Money-Issuer Really Lends and Spends
June 10, 2014 MMT has emphasized that there is a close relation between sovereign power to issue a currency and its power to impose tax liabilities. For shorthand, we say “Taxes Drive Money.” I’ve dealt with that topic in the previous installments of this series on MMT’s view of taxes. We’ve also demonstrated (as if it needed demonstration!) [...] Blog -
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The Far Right and the European Elections
June 10, 2014 C. J. Polychroniou, reflecting on the results of the European Parliament elections: The stunning victory of Marine Le Pen’s National Front in France that came in first with 25 percent of the vote—when it had won less than 6.5 percent in the last European elections—is quite indicative of the general political and social trends in [...] Blog -
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Why Draghi’s New Measures Won’t Solve the Low Inflation Problem
June 11, 2014 In yesterday’s Financial Times, Jörg Bibow addressed Mario Draghi’s recent announcement that the ECB will take new steps (including cutting its deposit rate to -0.1 percent) in an attempt to deal with (or, one might argue, in an attempt to appear to deal with) the fact that inflation in the eurozone is too low, according to the [...] Blog