Morgan Ricks speaks about his new book, The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation.

This seminar will explore the legal, political, and architectural challenges of building institutions that promote capital development without spurring instability or crisis. Presentations will focus on the case study of Brazil. Questions to be addressed include:

• What are the current macroprudential and regulatory challenges facing emerging market economies, particularly Brazil?

• How do development and financial stability goals intersect, and what policies have been advanced in the Brazilian context to address these dual concerns?

Paul McCulley, Warren Mosler, & Frank Newman discuss central banking in the post-2008 era.

This seminar explores the role of money in the political process, focusing on how different campaign finance mechanisms facilitate and/or hinder democracy.

Scott Fullwiler, Angela Walch, Will Ruddick & Brian King discuss payments systems.

This event will explore the nature and social function of money, and identify present and future opportunities for interdisciplinary legal-economic research on related topics. Questions to be addressed include:

Bearish investors have long predicted that the Fed’s bond buying would spur inflation and devalue the dollar. But since the 2008 financial crisis, neither prediction has come true. What gives?

This seminar explores the nuts and bolts of monetary operations, and the extent to which how the Federal Reserve’s policies do (and do not) impact inflation, the economy, and the U.S. fiscal deficit. Questions to be addressed include:

Rania Antonopoulos, Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute, describes her proposal for an “Employer of Last Resort” program in Greece. Part of the MMx seminar “The Disparate Impact of Unemployment: Macroeconomic Policy as a Tool for Race, Gender, and Age Discrimination” hosted by the Modern Money Network.

A three-day, student-driven conference on economic pluralism, organized in partnership with Rethinking Economics, and hosted by New York University Law School, the New School for Social Research, and Columbia Law School.

This conference will consider Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal for an Economic Bill of Rights, guaranteeing included employment at living wages, housing, medical care, education and old age security.