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Why most economists did not see the 2008 crash coming

Everyone wants to ring-fence something, but they can’t agree on what:

Europe is embarked on a grand experiment, managing modern financial crisis without a dealer of last resort, so refusing to follow the lead of the 2008 Fed.

The 5th UNCTAD YSI Summer School provides an opportunity to explore the Challenges and Opportunities of a New International Economic Order. The school will bring together UNCTAD experts, academics, diplomats, and young scholars from across the globe for lively and stimulating intellectual debates.

In a previous post we queried whether the theory of the consumer as developed in the first three chapters of Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green (and indeed other comparable texts) provides anything by way of content beyond what is implied by the abstract description of consumers as agents who are maximizing something. [We did not discuss chapter four, on aggregation of demand, to which we may return later]. As we noted then, a comparable point can be made about the theory of the firm.

Perry Mehrling’s new book traces the rise of the dollar through the life and career of influential economist Charles Kindleberger

Luohan Academy will share content while working with INET to plan future co-sponsored events, seminars & more

Focusing on what money really is – whether gold or state fiat – shifts attention away from what credit really is, which is to say away from the center of discontent.

Hot on the heels of the BIS, now comes the IMF Global Financial Stability report, “Corporate Leverage in Emerging Markets–A Concern?”. Yes, a concern, and just in time for the annual meeting in Peru next week.

Everyone wants to ring-fence something, but they can’t agree on what: Vickers, Liikanen, Volcker.

Last week the central banks of China and Australia announced the creation of a $31bn currency swap line

When I started this blog, almost exactly one year ago today, my thought was to provide commentary on the financial events of the day, using the Financial Times as my primary source of information about those events.

Forget the G7, Watch the C5

At its core, this rolling crisis is really about financial globalization.

Financial Globalization versus the Nation State