Current Scholarship
Unconventional central banking and the politics of liquidity

Fathimath Musthaq

The 2008 financial crisis saw central banks introduce a variety of tools to shore up the financial system, including unconventional measures that made use of central bank balance sheets to directly shape markets. This paper argues that central banks increasingly rely on unconventional tools in noncrisis times to maintain confidence in an unstable financial system.
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Unconventional central banking and the politics of liquidity

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Economic Sovereignty and Its Limits – Central Bankers, Finance Ministers, and International Organizations: Currency and Empire Sawyer Seminar on Nov. 12, 2021

Please join the New School for their next Currency and Empire Sawyer Seminar Event “Economic Sovereignty and Its Limits” - on Zoom, Nov. 12, 2021!
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Economic Sovereignty and Its Limits – Central Bankers, Finance Ministers, and International Organizations: Currency and Empire Sawyer Seminar on Nov. 12, 2021

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Seeing and Not-seeing Like a Political Economist: The Historicity of Contemporary Political Economy and its Blind Spots

Jacqueline Best, Colin Hay, Genevieve LeBaron & Daniel Mügge

Contemporary political economy is predicated on widely shared ideas and assumptions, some explicit but many implicit, about the past. The aim of this Special Issue is to draw attention to, and to assess critically, these historical assumptions.
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Seeing and Not-seeing Like a Political Economist: The Historicity of Contemporary Political Economy and its Blind Spots

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Who’s to Blame for Lost Silver and Gold? Laments of Financial Troubles in Spain 1588

Stephen Mayeaux

One of the first to catch my eye was a set of documents from the Cortes, the legislative body of Spain. Published in 1593, Acts of the “Cortes” held in the village of Madrid in the year 1588 gives us a look at matters the Cortes considered important enough to address. Among other interesting subjects, these documents show concern over the kingdom’s financial difficulties.
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Who’s to Blame for Lost Silver and Gold? Laments of Financial Troubles in Spain 1588

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Criminals and Coins: Understanding 17th Century Spanish Economy through Counterfeit Currency

Nina Perdomo

This document is a highlight of the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents collection because it explores the case of Goyeneche, charged with counterfeiting Spanish coin, while allowing modern readers to gain insight into the economic status of Spain in the 1600s.
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Criminals and Coins: Understanding 17th Century Spanish Economy through Counterfeit Currency

Spring 2021 - Reassessing Central Bank Independence
G. Epstein, Democratic Money: Central Bank Independence vs. Contested Control (Part 2)

August 17, 2021

Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst

As I argued in Part One, with both its monetary and regulatory policy, the Federal Reserve has often been biased toward helping the financial sector.
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