David Singh Grewal, UC Berkeley
We are once again in the awful position of testing the proposition that commercial integration among nations leads to peace. And, to the extent that it clearly does not, we are left wondering about how effective either monetary and economic sanctions can be—and, more broadly, what economic “decoupling” looks like in a post-neoliberal world.
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International Law and 21st Century Financial Warfare
Suzanne Katzenstein, Duke University; Stephen Park, University of Connecticut
Financial sanctions of the current scope and magnitude can no longer be relied upon to enforce international law in a manner that complies with it. Relying on international law to constrain the impacts of warfare—here, financial warfare—may also risk legitimizing its expanding use.
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Are the West’s Sanctions on Russia Working?
Rawi Abdelal and Alexandra Vacroux, Harvard University
The question of whether sanctions on Russia in response to the war in Ukraine are “working” is vastly more complicated than has been acknowledged.
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Sanctions and International Order
Benjamin Coates, Wake Forest University
Even if imposed in the name of international order, sanctions enforced by a powerful group of states are hard to differentiate from economic warfare. Their success will therefore depend as much on brute strength as on global legitimacy.
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Sanctions and International Order”
Banking: Intermediation or Money Creation
S. Das, Roundtable Wrap-up
August 3, 2020
Sannoy Das, Harvard Law School
In this brief post, I attempt to summarize the main themes that emerged from the Just Money roundtable on banking. In ten blog posts between
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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
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Special Edition: Money in the Time of Coronavirus”
Money in the Time of Coronavirus
S. Das, Roundtable Wrap-up
June 29, 2020
Sannoy Das, Harvard Law School
The Just Money roundtable was convened to analyze policy responses, emerging mostly from monetary authorities, to the economic dislocations that occurred or became imminent as the coronavirus crisis hit every corner of the globe.
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Winter 2020
Banking: Intermediation or Money Creation
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”