A Correction Podcast

We talk with Katharina Bergant about how the right kind of regulation can enhance macroeconomic resilience. Katharina Bergant is an Economist in the Macro-Financial division of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. In addition to her work on monetary and macroprudential policies, her most recent research focuses on the application of microdata in international financial macroeconomics. Before she joined the IMF, Katharina did a research fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, she worked in the Directorate Economics of the European Central Bank and the Monetary Policy division of the Central Bank of Ireland. Katharina was a Grattan Scholar at Trinity College Dublin where she earned her PhD under the supervision of Philip R. Lane. 

We are very excited to announce that the book club will be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet on October 20th at 7 pm EST and will be reading Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He completed his PhD at University of California, Los Angeles. Before that, he completed BAs in Philosophy and Political Science at Indiana University.

His theoretical work draws liberally from German transcendental philosophy, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, histories of activism and activist thinkers, and the Black radical tradition. He is currently writing a book entitled Reconsidering Reparations that considers a novel philosophical argument for reparations and explores links with environmental justice. He also is committed to public engagement and is publishing articles in popular outlets with general readership (e.g. Slate, Pacific Standard) exploring intersections between climate justice and colonialism.

We are very excited to announce that the book club will be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet on October 20th at 7 pm EST and will be reading Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili.

We discuss the ways the 2014-18 economic shock in Brazil impacted voting patterns. Laura Barros is a PhD candidate in Economics associated to the Chair of Development Economics and to the Research Training Group “Globalization and Development” at the University of Göttingen. Her research focuses on development economics, gender and political economy. She holds a Master’s degree from Heidelberg University and a Bachelor’s degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais.Manuel Santos Silva is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Development Economics at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His research focuses on gender and social inequalities, urbanization, and migration.

Percentage of votes for Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) on the runoff round of the presidential election (28 October 2018). Sources: TSE.

We are very excited to announce that the book club will be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet on October 20th at 7 pm EST and will be reading Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili.

We discus the fickle nature of capital flows. Bilge Erten is an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Northeastern University. Bilge received her PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2010. She was a postdoctoral research scholar of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University from 2012 to 2014, and is currently an NBER DITE fellow. She is an associate editor of Feminist Economics, and a member of the Gender and Development Initiative at Northeastern University. Her primary research interests are in gender and development economics, with a particular focus on empirical research.

Photo by Kai Dahms

We are very excited to announce that the book club will be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet on October 20th at 7 pm EST and will be reading Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili.

Did fiscal austerity pave the way for the rise of the Nazis? Christopher Meissner is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on the economic history of the international economy particularly between 1870 and 1913. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Development of the American Economy (DAE) program. Previous to joining the faculty at Davis, Meissner was at the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge University. In Cambridge he was the Director of Studies in Economics and a Fellow of King's College. He has held Visiting Scholar positions at Harvard, INSEAD, International Monetary Fund, the Paris School of Economics, University of Barcelona, and the University of Southern Denmark. He was also a Houblon Norman fellow at the Bank of England and the Hans Christian Andersen Professor at the University of Southern Denmark in 2015. Meissner earned his PhD in Economics from Berkeley in 2001 and his AB in Economics from Washington University in 1996.

We are very excited to announce that the book club will be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet on October 20th at 7 pm EST and will be reading Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili.

We speak with Yanis Iqbal about COVID-19 and copper production. Yanis Iqbal is a student and freelance writer based in Aligarh, India and can be contacted at [email protected]. His articles have been published by different magazines and websites such as Monthly Review Online, ZNet, Green Social Thought, Weekly Worker, News and Letters Weekly, Economic and Political Weekly, Arena, Eurasia Review, Coventry University Press, Culture Matters, Global Research, Dissident Voice, Countercurrents, Counterview, Hampton Institute, Ecuador Today, People’s Review, Eleventh Column, Karvaan India, Clarion India, OpEd News, The Iraq File, Portside and the Institute of Latin American Studies.

We are very excited to announce that the book club will be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet on October 20th at 7 pm EST and will be reading Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili.

We speak with Dr. Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu about the importance of indigenous knowledge for education and innovation in Africa and globally. Dr. Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu is the author of Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa. A researcher, teacher, non-fiction and fiction writer, and a public intellectual, Chika holds a Ph.D. in African Development and Policy Studies from Howard University in Washington D.C. Chika has worked as a consultant for the World Bank on education and sustainable land management in Africa. Among her other research works include an International Development Research Center (IDRC) Canada commissioned project on utilizing indigenous technology to create employment for women in rural areas in Rwanda. Chika has conducted research for such organizations as the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). Dr. Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu is presently a managing partner with African Child Press in addition to her role as a visiting faculty of the University of Rwanda, College of Business and Economics.

We are very excited to announce that the book club will be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet on October 20th at 7 pm EST and will be reading Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili.

We talk with Michael Sawyer about his book Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X. Michael Sawyer is assistant professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies in the Department of English at Colorado College. He is the author of An Africana Philosophy of Temporality (Palgrave Press, 2018) and Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X (Pluto Press, 2020).

We are very excited to announce that the book club will be hosted by Fiori Sara Berhane. We will (Zoom) meet in October and will be reading Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili.

On 10 July 1940, the French parliament committed democratic suicide. Which MPs resisted and why? Kim Oosterlinck is Professor of Finance at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Research Fellow at the CEPR. He holds a Master in Management, a Master in Art History and Archaeology, and a Ph.D. in Economics and Management from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). After a post-doctoral stay at Rutgers University, he came back at ULB as professor. His main research interests are sovereign bond valuation, financial history and questions related to the art market. Kim Oosterlinck has published,  in 2016, a book on the Repudiation of Russian Sovereign Bonds (Yale University Press). He is currently Vice-Rector in charge of Prospective and Finance at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Pierre Laval in Vichy France, 1940

We are asking educators to write about their classes and the course materials they use. The goal is to provide high school and college teachers with ideas for courses they might teach and the resources that exist.

We speak with Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj about the future of bitcoin, tether and libra. Ganesh is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Warwick Business School. His research interests are in international finance, with a focus on foreign exchange derivatives, market microstructure and cryptocurrencies. In recent research, he has been investigating a class of cryptocurrencies called stable coins that are currencies operating on the blockchain and are pegged to the US dollar. He also investigates price-setting in forex swap markets, and uses financial data to identify linkages between monetary policy, financial markets and the real economy. 

We are asking educators to write about their classes and the course materials they use. The goal is to provide high school and college teachers with ideas for courses they might teach and the resources that exist.