Money as a Hierarchical System
Legal and Economic Perspectives
Sep 12, 2013
Overview
This seminar will examine the hierarchical power relationships generated and continuously affected by the legal and economic design of the monetary system. Questions to be addressed include:
How have financial and legal technologies shaped our monetary system?
How do different contemporary legal and economic views on money and the monetary economy relate to each other?
What role should and/or does power play in discussions of legal and economic design of the monetary system?
Participants
Speaker
Christine Desan
Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Speaker
L. Randall Wray
Professor of Economics and Research Director
Center for Full Employment and Price Stability at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Speaker
Perry Mehrling
Professor of Economics
Barnard College
Speaker
Katharina Pistor
Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law
Columbia Law School