Money and the Rule of Law
Daniel J. Smith discusses his new book Money and the Rule of Law, where he and his co-authors argue for less discretion for monetary policymakers.
Daniel J. Smith discusses his new book Money and the Rule of Law, where he and his co-authors argue for less discretion for monetary policymakers.
Erik Nordman discusses his new book, which details the intellectual legacy of Elinor Ostrom and her contributions to the management of natural resources.
Mikayla Novak discusses her new book, which analyses social movements from the lens of liberal political economy.
Will F.A Hayek’s vision of a denationalised monetary system come to fruition in the era of Web 3.0? In this online essay, Adam Tebble explores the implications of cryptocurrencies and smart contracts for global governance and the philosophical debate between markets and states.
Economists like to classify goods as private or public. Using insights from Elinor Ostrom’s research, Veeshan Rayamajhee and Pablo Paniagua argue that we can’t make these classifications without looking at the context.
Please join us this autumn for our Zoom Seminar series featuring Ian Shapiro (Yale), Jeffrey Friedman (Berkeley), James C. Scott (Yale), Melani Cammett (Harvard), Cristina Bicchieri (Penn) and Barak Richman (Duke). Check out the full schedule here and be sure to register. All lectures will be recorded and shared afterward.
What Elinor Ostrom Can Tell Us About Housing and Land Use Governance The UK and many other Western countries have …
It is easy to reduce the experience of this pandemic to a story about top-level decision-making, interactions on the international stage, and the ballooning of state power. But to do so is to miss the other half of the story. For distancing and self-isolation policies to work, they have had to be enacted and reinforced at the scale of neighbourhoods – or even households.
Could UBI be a partial solution to the financial problems introduced by the novel coronavirus? Otto Lehto argues that we should implement UBI as a permanent reform of the welfare system rather than as a temporary emergency measure with a sunset clause.
Sophia Ostler takes us into her fieldwork research on the governance of the Colombian drug trade, illuminating the role of extra-legal governance in supporting the trade, the importance of women in the coca-leaf economy, and the bountiful insights that qualitative research brings to economics.
We’re sorry to announce that the public lecture by James C. Scott and seminar by Barak Richman due on March 17 and 26 are now canceled following College policy in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Check back on our website and social media for new developments as they arise.
“The argument I make in favour of more open borders focuses not upon the interests of immigrants or of the already-resident, but upon those whom migrants leave behind in their countries of origin. In this sense my argument represents something of a breakthrough, for it seeks to claim the interests of those left behind for those arguing in favour of the more liberal approach.”