March 17, 2020
Dan Awrey, Cornell Law School
The global pandemic unleashed by the coronavirus has inadvertently shone a spotlight on the design of some of our most important monetary institutions.
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Current Scholarship
Why Financial Regulation Keeps Falling Short
Dan Awry & Kathryn Judge
This article argues that there is a fundamental mismatch between the nature of finance and current approaches to financial regulation.
Spring 2020
Special Edition: Money in the Time of Coronavirus
Contributors: Katharina Pistor, James McAndrews, Saule Omarova, Mark Blyth, Jamee Moudud, Elham Saeidinezhad, Dan Awrey, Fadhel Kaboub, Leah Downey, Virginia France, Lev Menand, Nadav Orian Peer, Robert Hockett, Carolyn Sissoko, Jens van 't Klooster, Oscar Perry Abello, and Gerald Epstein
Current Scholarship
Bad Money
Author: Dan Awrey
Money is, always and everywhere, a legal phenomenon. In the United States, the vast majority of the money supply consists of monetary liabilities