Contributors: Gerald Epstein, Iain Frame, Rory Van Loo, Andrew Cumbers,
Franziska Paul, Michael Swack, Ellen Brown, Nancy Ryan, Rohan Grey, Wesley Marshall,
Nadav Orian Peer, Dan Rohde, Jean-Philippe Bombay, Christine Desan,
and more to come
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Just Money Will Be Back in August
Gone Fishin’
We'll be posting Money as a Democratic Medium videos throughout the summer as they become available.
Note that the closed-captions for the videos were auto-generated, and we will be revising them
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Gone Fishin’”
Live Zoom Panel - Wednesday, April 19, 11 am - 12 pm ET
Reminder: Sociological Perspectives on the Bank Failures of 2023
Following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, as well as the forced acquisition of Credit Suisse, banks are back in the headlines. This panel considers recent events in light of the flowering of sociological research since the
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Reminder: Sociological Perspectives on the Bank Failures of 2023”
Live Zoom Panel - Wednesday, April 19, 11 am - 12 pm ET
Sociological Perspectives on the Bank Failures of 2023
Following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, as well as the forced acquisition of Credit Suisse, banks are back in the headlines. This panel considers recent events in light of the flowering of sociological research since the
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Banking: Intermediation or Money Creation
R. Hockett & S. Omarova, What Do Banks Intermediate?
February 5, 2020
Robert Hockett, Cornell Law School
Saule Omarova, Cornell Law School
Apparently there still are people who believe that the principal role of commercial banks is to ‘intermediate’ between depositors and borrowers – lending the funds of the former to the latter at a premium, conveying a portion of that premium to the former, and pocketing the remainder.
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Roundtable Registration
What Is Global History? A Roundtable
Thursday, February 20
4:30 p.m.
Wolfensohn Hall
Institute for Advanced Study
Since its publication in 2016, Sebastian Conrad’s What Is Global History? (Princeton University Press, 2016) has been read and debated not…
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