21st of October 2024 I am so happy to have been asked to contribute to this round table in honour of David. We were close friends for over fifty years. All who knew him well could sense the extraordinary unity between his life and work. His life bore testimony to his ideals. There were no obvious tensions, loose pieces. I want to capture something of what we got from him because his thinking remains an indispensable fount of wisdom in an increasingly deranged world. Let me start...
Read More »Business Cycles in the Modern World System: Past, Present and Future
In case anybody is in the area around New York, the Program of the PEWS conference below. Thursday, April 26, 2018 -- 4:30 - 5:20 p.m. Reception in the DiMenna-Nyselius Library Room 107 C 5:20 p.m. Formal Opening of the Conference Library Multimedia Room Welcome: Eric Mielants (Sociology) Katsiaryna Salavei Bardos (Finance) Introduction of Keynote Speakers Dean Greenwald (CAS) Immanuel Wallerstein (Sociology, Yale University) “Cycles Within Structures versus Structural...
Read More »International Workshop on Demand-led Growth, Conflict Inflation, and Macro Policy
At my alma mater the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), to be co-sponsored by the Review of Keynesian Economics (ROKE). Call for papers to come soon in this channel. Stay tuned.
Read More »Policy Challenges for the New US President
Economists for Peace and Security will conduct its 9th annual policy symposium at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill in Washington DC on November 14, 2016 to discuss the economic dimensions of the most pressing global security issues and those facing the domestic economy. Following one of the most unusual presidential and congressional elections in US history, three panels of senior specialists will present ideas for improving prospects for peace, and growth with fairness for all...
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