Thursday, September 12, 2013

Reminder — Money As A Hierarchical System: 
Legal And Economic Perspectives This Evening 9/12


Christine Desan | Leo Gotley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

L. Randall Wray, Ph.D. | Professor of Economics and Research Director for the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability at the University of Missouri-Kansas City

Perry Mehrling is the Director of Education Programs for the Institute for New Economic Thinking and Professor of Economics at Barnard College

Katharina Pistor | Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, the Director of the School’s Center on Global Legal Transformation, and a member of Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought

DATE
Thursday, September 12th, 6.30pm

LOCATION
Room 106, Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School

ATTENDANCE
Free and open to all.

VIDEO
A livestream will be available on this site during the event, and a recording will be uploaded after the seminar.

TOPIC SUMMARY
This seminar will examine the hierarchical power relationships generated and continuously affected by the legal and economic design of the monetary system. Questions to be addressed include:

How have financial and legal technologies shaped our monetary system?

How do different contemporary legal and economic views on money and the monetary economy relate to each other?

What role should and/or does power play in discussions of legal and economic design of the monetary system?

6 comments:

Bob Roddis said...

Thanks for the reminder. I would have forgotten. I can easily make an mp3 recording of the whole thing.

Now that I'm familiar with Ms. Desan's deceptions or perhaps merely extreme lack of knowledge (plus my understanding of the obviously preposterous statist theory of money), this should be a good time.

Kristjan said...

Do that Bob. We'd all like to hear about the deceptions in statist theory of money. Otherwise all we have is "you can't win the future", "interest rates are gonna be higher if government borrows", "US is gonna be the next Greece", "QE is gonna cause hyperinflation" etc.
Thanks.

Matt Franko said...

ok,

Wray just got done...

He did real well imo...

Much to discus but I will point out that I liked how he said "the President is not telling the truth" rather than "The President is lying..." to me there is a key difference.

Also really attacked "barter"...

Took it soft on the "coercion" POV rather indicated that perhaps the tax laws "imparted value" to the currency...

rsp,

Matt Franko said...

I think the "9mm" analogy is perhaps 'bad framing' as far as appeal to libertarians.... I get the feeling that libertarians dont like to feel coerced so perhaps dont put it in their face with the 9mm...

Some indication via the writings of Aristotle that in that society they looked at the obligation as "voluntary" rather than coercion...

rsp,

Matt Franko said...

FTR: about 40 viewing online and RG indicated about 100 in the room so 140 total.... I think this is a relatively high number...

Matt Franko said...

How many at the Mosler/Murphy 'debate'?