Hosted by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI,) Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and LBJ Washington Center
The Great Financial Crisis of 2007–08 has cast a long shadow on the economic and political realities we confront today, as did the Great Depression of the 1930s on the decades that followed. These economic earthquakes also upended the conventional economic thinking, particularly in the realm of macroeconomics.
This event presents four new books that address various aspects of macroeconomic theory and policymaking. Our centerpiece book — James Crotty’s Keynes Against Capitalism: His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism — asks, what can we learn of relevance today from the seminal work of John Maynard Keynes? This is followed by a plenary address by James Galbraith: "Pragmatism and Ideology in the Legacy of John Maynard Keynes," and then discussions on When Things Don’t Fall Apart by Ilene Grabel; All Fall Down by Jane D’Arista and The Political Economy of Central Banking by Gerald Epstein.
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Live webcast will be available at https://youtu.be/Lw_1hDsPVRE
PROGRAM
Keynes Against Capitalism: His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism by James Crotty
Presentation:
- Robert Pollin, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI,) University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussants:
- Robert Kuttner, American Prospect
- Gary Dymski, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
Pragmatism and Ideology in the Legacy of John Maynard Keynes
- James Galbraith, LBJ School, University of Texas
Reflections on Global Financial Instability and Financial Architecture
Presentations:
- Jane D'Arista, PERI, University of Massachusetts
All Fall Down: Debt, Deregulation, and Financial Crises - Ilene Grabel, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
When Things Don't Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence - Gerald Epstein, PERI, University of Massachusetts
The Political Economy of Central Banking: Contested Control and the Power of Finance
Discussant:
- Robert Wade, London School of Economics