Archive
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Conference Session
Innovation Systems
Apr 3, 2013 | 09:15—10:15
The Foundations of Economic Prosperity: The Lessons of Innovation Process and History
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Working Paper
Conference paperScarcity, Preferences and Cooperation: A Mimetic Analysis
Apr 2013
In “The Ambivalence of Scarcity” which is my contribution to L’Enfer des choses. René Girard et la logique de l’économie, written by Jean-Pierre Dupuy and originally published in French in 1978, I attempt to apply mimetic theory to modern economics and to economicphenomena, and also to explain why economic issues and economics as a discipline occupy such an important place in the modern world.
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Working Paper
Conference paperMonetary and Financial Stability: Lessons from the Crisis and from classic economics texts
Apr 2013
My remarks today will be focused primarily on features of the developed world’s financial system which led to the crisis of 2008 and to the Great Recession that followed, from which we are only slowly and painfully emerging.
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Working Paper
Conference paperComments by William White on the Presentation by Lord Adair Turner
Apr 2013
In his recent lecture at the Cass Business School, Lord Turner noted that even mentioning the possibility of overt monetary financing was akin to breaking a taboo.
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Working Paper
Conference paperDavid Sainsbury: Innovation Systems
Apr 2013
A striking feature of the neoclassical economic theory which has been dominant in Western universities in recent years is that it has had so little to say about innovation and innovation policy which is useful for policy-makers.
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Working Paper
Conference paperCrisis and the Sacred
Apr 2013
It would be nonsensical to blame economists for not foreseeing the crisis; even less for causing it. It was obvious there would be a crisis. It was impossible to foresee how it would start and evolve, and at what moment these events would occur.
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Working Paper
Conference paperIndividual Judgments, Social Values, and Mimetic Interactions
Apr 2013
The problem of value has always occupied a central place in economic thought and debate.
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Conference Session
Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Stability: Lessons of the Historical Experience with Fiat Money and the Implications for the Future
Apr 3, 2013 | 11:30—12:30
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Article
A new way of thinking in economics
Apr 2, 2013
What is the purpose of economics?
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Article
I Have to Act Like an Adult in Hong Kong
Apr 1, 2013
The INET conference in Hong Kong is serious business.
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Working Paper
Grantee paperIf Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?
Mar 2013
We study the lags with which new technologies are adopted across countries, and their long-run penetration rates once they are adopted.
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Working Paper
Grantee paperThe Inevitability of Shadowy Banking
Mar 2013
Shadowy banking is safety-net arbitrage. It employs substitutes for products and activities performed within the traditional banking sector.
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Article
As Goes Cyprus, So Goes the European Union
Mar 31, 2013
All of a sudden, tiny Cyprus is making headlines. How could such a small country, with an economy approximately the size of the State of Maranhao, create such big problems?
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Article
Meeting New Challenges in China
Mar 27, 2013
Further system reforms will enable China to overcome middle-income trap and push forward social progress
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Article
The Consequences of a Leaderless Economy
Mar 26, 2013
What happens when there’s no leader in the global economy?