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Press ReleaseLevy Economics Institute Research Associate and Bard College Economics Professer Pavlina R. Tcherneva Wins Prestigious Helen Potter Prize from the Association for Social Economics
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BlogOn Net-exports Life Support: Germany Is Back at It, and Now Euroland Is Too
Germany’s Federal Statistical Office released its first estimate of German GDP in 2012 at a press conference held in Wiesbaden yesterday: “German economy withstands the European economic crisis in 2012.” Reporting that growth slowed markedly in Germany last year, down to only 0.7 percent from 3 percent in 2011 and 4.2 percent in 2010, the [...] -
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A Special Event with SYRIZA
Next week, January 24th, the Modern Money and Public Purpose seminar at Columbia University will feature a special session with top leadership from the Greek opposition party, SYRIZA, including leader of the opposition Alexis Tsipras and economy critic George Stathakis (who gave an entertaining talk at the November Minsky conference in Berlin—see Session 3 for audio). This special event [...] -
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Asking the Right Questions about Government Budgets
Below is the video from the latest session of the Modern Money and Public Purpose seminar at Columbia University, featuring Jan Kregel and Forbes‘ John Harvey. The session touched on the sustainability of fiscal and trade deficits, why economists need to study accounting, the risks of paying down the government debt, the real meaning of [...] -
MME, January 13, 2013
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Express: Περικοπές δαπανών και μέτρα λιτότητας αύξησαν το χρέος στον ιδιωτικό τομέα
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MME, January 13, 2013
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Δημήτρης Παπαδημητρίου: Η ανάπτυξη θα επιτευχθεί μόνο με μέτρα
Η οικονομική κρίση στην Ελλάδα συνεχίζει να καταστρέφει αδυσώπητα την κοινωνία και τους ανθρώπους της, αλλά η εγχώρια «τρόικα» προβλέπει και διατυμπανίζει ότι η ώρα της Ανάστασης πλησιάζει. -
One-Pager No. 36Expansion of Federal Reserve Authority in the Recent Financial Crisis Raises Questions about Governance
Several years before the onset of the recent financial crisis, ex – Federal Reserve Board Member Lawrence Meyer wrote that the Fed “is often called the most powerful institution in America,” its key decisions made by 19 people whose names are known by few, meeting regularly behind closed doors. Bernard Shull examines the origin and […] -
One-Pager No. 36
Η επέκταση της εξουσίας του Ομοσπονδιακού Αποθεματικού στην πρόσφατη χρηματοοικονομική κρίση εγείρει ερωτήματα διακυβέρνησης
Αρκετά χρόνια πριν από το ξέσπασμα της πρόσφατης χρηματοοικονομικής κρίσης, ο Lawrence Meyer, πρώην διοικητικό μέλος του Ομοσπονδιακού Αποθεματικού, έγραψε ότι η Ομοσπονδιακή Τράπεζα «αναφέρεται συχνά ως ο ισχυρότερος θεσμός στην Αμερική». Οι «αποφάσεις κλειδιά λαμβάνονται από 19 άτομα—τα ονόματα των οποίων ελάχιστοι γνωρίζουν—τα οποία συνεδριάζουν τακτικά πίσω από κλειστές πόρτες». Ο Bernard Shull εξετάζει […] -
Summary No. 1Summary Winter 2013
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. This issue contains the proceedings of the Hyman P. Minsky Conference on Financial Instability: Debt, Deficits, and Unstable Markets, as well as an analysis of the “fiscal cliff” […] -
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Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coins, Treasury Warrants, and the Fundamental “Unseriousness” of Money
So far, a large part of the discussion of whether the Treasury should mint (or convincingly threaten to mint) a trillion-dollar platinum coin in response to the congressional threat to refuse to raise the debt limit (see here for background) hovers around questions of legality or ill-defined “seriousness.” (On the political front, the administration’s press [...]