The Summer Seminar provides a rigorous discussion of both the theoretical and the applied aspects of Minsky’s economics, with an examination of meaningful prescriptive policies relevant to the current economic and financial crisis. It is of particular interest to graduate students, recent...

Topics: - Causes & depth of crises; policies, institutions & strategies to ameliorate financial crises, deep recession & un(der)employment in short & long-term; - Capital flows, banking & credit systems, financial ‘innovations’, credit markets, institutional regimes of accumulation,...

Program: - Up from Here? Challenges and Barriers to Recovery from the Crisis (Panel discussion) - Is War Over? The Economics of National Security after Iraq and Afghanistan (Panel discussion) - Economists for Peace & Security dinner in Honor of Michael Intriligator This conference is being held...

This conference, which takes its inspiration from one held in 1970 entitled "The Econometrics of Price Determination," aims to take stock of the current knowledge about quantitative aspects of inflation dynamics. A combination of invited papers and papers contributed in response to this call...

Threshold effects and non-linearities are increasingly recognized to be present in the development process, and in the effects of policy on development. Traditionally, threshold effects were present in discussions of "stages of growth" or "the big push" and non-linearity was definitionally...

Crises and Prices: Information Aggregation, Multiplicity and Volatility Productivity Growth and Worker Reallocation: Theory and Evidence Topics: Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations The Product Cycle and Inequality Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS...