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Fast Company covers Michael Greenberger’s paper for INET on how banks evade regulation of credit default swaps

YSI is hosting sessions at the 2018 STOREP conference.

Fred Block says capitalism is not an unchanging monolith—which means we can make it better

From 28-30 June the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy will be gathering in Genova to ask the question “Whatever has happened to political economy?”.  Before the start of the conference, Rethinking Economics and the YSI Philosophy of Economics Working Group will host a workshop to discuss a related question: “Whatever happened to economics?”. Professor Geoffrey Hodgson will participate in our discussion.

The Koch brothers scandal at George Mason University

Forbes cites our interview with Jim Chanos on Bitcoin

When politics is defined in terms of “populism” vs. “the mainstream,” the possibility for real economic reform is diminished.

Edoardo Nesi’s new book tracks the destructive march of globalization and neoliberal capitalism through his own life and the places, like Italy, that lie broken in its wake.

A light-hearted economic analysis of the World Cup

70 years ago today, Edward A. Tenenbaum helped pull off an astounding feat—successfully reforming Germany’s currency after World War II

Michael Greenberger says unregulated credit default swaps could take down the economy—and taxpayers—again

By evading regulation of credit default swaps, the major U.S. banks put taxpayers—and the entire economy—at risk

NPR’s All Things Considered features Michael Greenberger’s INET Working Paper on how banks evade credit default swaps regulation

Bloomberg covers Michael Greenberger’s paper for INET on how banks evade regulation of credit default swaps

Converting an Obscure Agency Footnote into an “At Will” Nullification of Dodd-Frank’s Regulation of the Multi-Trillion Dollar Financial Swaps Market