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?
