Christine A. Desan
Like the law of payments, the legal design of money shapes the economy itself.
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Money’s Design Elements: Debt, Liquidity, and the Pledge of Value from Medieval Coin to Modern “Repo””
YSI Webinar - Making Money Book Discussion with Christine Desan
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Christine Desan Joins the Money View Reading Group”
Money on the Left Podcast: Money as a Constitutional Project with Christine Desan
The Money on the Left Editorial Collective presents a classic episode from our archives along with a previously unavailable transcript & graphic art. In this episode, we are joined by Christine Desan
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Money on the Left Podcast: Money as a Constitutional Project with Christine Desan”
Christine Desan, Harvard Law School
Neoclassical and credit approaches to money represent dramatically different theories of value.
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The Key to Value: The Debate over Commensurability in Neoclassical and Credit Approaches to Money”
Recall this Book Podcast Talks with Christine Desan
This is the first of several RTB episodes about the history of money.
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[Recall This Buck I]: Chris Desan on Making Money”
March 12, 2020
Christine Desan, Harvard Law School
An iconic article published by Douglass North and Barry Weingast in 1989 identified the growth of banking
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C. Desan, The Power of Paradigms in Histories of Economic Development”
Contributors: Morgan Ricks, Marc Lavoie, Robert Hockett, Saule Omarova, Michael Kumhof, Zoltan Jakab, Paul Tucker, Charles Kahn, Daniel Tarullo, Stephen Marglin, Howell Jackson and Christine Desan, Sannoy Das
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Banking: Intermediation or Money Creation”
Harvard Law School, Spring 2022
Professor Christine Desan
Course Description:
An integrated political economy now covers much of the globe. This course focuses on the monetary structure of that phenomenon as a matter…
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The Legal Architecture of Globalization: Money, Debt and Development – Overview”
Professor Christine Desan (profile)
Harvard Law School – Fall 2017
Course Overview (Description and Syllabus)
Class 1: The Dollar as a Democratic Medium
Readings Notes and Discussion
Class 2: Money:…
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Constitutional Law of Money – Materials”
Professor Christine Desan (profile)
Harvard Law School – Fall 2021
Course Description:
Harvard Law School, Spring 2019
Professor Christine Desan
Introduction and Overview
Class 01: Money, Debt, and Development: Challenges and Change in a Globalizing World
Reading, Background and Discussion
I. A Baseline: Money and its Design…
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The Legal Architecture of Globalization: Money, Debt, and Development – Materials”
Podcast: Christine Desan opens the first Money as a Democratic Medium conference.