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Following below is the video recording of the PANEL 8. ‘Capitalist Accumulation and the Financialisation Hypothesis: a Critical Review‘, that took place during the 15th WAPE Forum. The chair and discussant of the panel was Lefteris Tsoulfidis (Professor of History of Economic Thought, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece). The panelists were: Stavros Mavroudeas (Vice Chair of the World Association for Political Economy, Professor of...

I’ve written a couple of posts about Labor’s social housing fund, showing that it’s smaller than it appears, and that hypothecation (linking housing expenditure to the fluctuating proceeds of an investment fund) is bad policy. But is the underlying idea sound? This is a complicated question, and the answer takes us back to the mixed economy of the mid-20th century To recap, the key idea is to borrow $10 billion at the low rate of interest payable on government debt, invest it in...

from Asad Zaman A previous post Quotes Critical of Economics collected assorted quotes which are useful in writing up different kinds of critiques of economics. In addition, I collected quotes from Romer’s Trouble With Macro which are sharply critical of economics. In terms of the “Loyalty, Voice, Exit” paradigm, I look for “Exit” quotes, which suggest that we need to throw out the entire discipline and rebuild on new foundations; for a proposed alternative, see “Uloom-ul-Umran: An...

WAPE 2021 Forum PANEL 8. ‘Capitalist Accumulation and the Financialisation Hypothesis: a Critical Review‘ Saturday, December 18 @ Beijing 16:10-18:10 (GMT 08:10-10:10, Athens time 10:10-12:10) Moderator: Stavros Mavroudeas, Vice Chair of the World Association for Political Economy, Professor of Political Economy, Department of Social Policy, Panteion University,  Greece Panelists: 1. The Financialization Hypothesis: A Theoretical and Empirical Critique...

Η ΕΕΠΟ συνδιοργανώνει το 15ο φόρουμ WAPE, 18-19 Δεκεμβρίου 2021, «Επανεξετάζοντας την Οικονομική Ανάλυση: Η προοπτική της πολιτικής οικονομίας» 15 ου Φόρουμ της ΠαγκόσμιαςΈταιρείας για την Πολιτική Οικονομία (WAPE) «Επανεξετάζοντας την Οικονομική Ανάλυση: Η προοπτική της πολιτικής οικονομίας » 18-19 Δεκεμβρίου 2021, Πανεπιστήμιο Διεθνών Σπουδών της Σαγκάης, Κίνα Συνδιοργάνωση: Παγκόσμια Εταιρεία Πολιτικής Οικονομίας (WAPE)Ελληνική Επιστημονική Εταιρεία Πολιτικής...

15th Forum of the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) ‘Rethinking Economic Analysis: The Perspective of Political Economy’ 18-19 December 2021, Shanghai International Studies University, China Co-organised by: World Association of Political Economy (WAPE)Greek Association of Political Economy (GAPE)Hosted by: Shanghai International Studies University The 15th annual Forum of the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) will be held on 18-19 December...

Πολιτική εκδήλωση/ συζήτηση:«Όλα αλλάζουν και όλα τα ίδια μένουν; Κριτικές προσεγγίσεις πάνω στον επιχειρηματικό χαρακτήρα του πανεπιστημίου σήμερα» Εισηγήσεις:Σταύρος Μαυρουδέας, καθηγητής στο τμήμα Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής του Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου Univector – αυθόρμητο συμβούλιο για την κριτική του πανεπιστημίου Η εκδήλωση θα διεξαχθεί την Παρασκευή 17/12/2021 στις 6μμ, στην αίθουσα 102, στο Πάντειο Θα τηρηθούν μέτρα συλλογικής αυτο-προστασίας...

In my first post on Labor’s $10 billion housing fund, I pointed out that the $10 billion number is misleading.  The key idea is to borrow $10 billion at the low rate of interest payable on government debt, invest it in higher-yielding assets and use the profits (maybe $400 million a year, based on historical average returns) to finance social housing. The same model has been used by the LNP government to set up funds for a variety of purposes. There’s a total of $50 billion across five...