Past Events
Please find links to all our past events stretching right back to 2005.
Re-embracing Keynes: Scholars, Admirers, and Skeptics in the Aftermath of the Crisis
Presented by the Bard College Economics Department and Economics Club, and the Levy Economics Institute Weis Cinema, Bard College October 6, 2015, 4:45 p.m. Cristina Marcuzzo is a full professor of political economy at the Sapienza University of Rome, with research interests in Keynesian economics and the history of thought. She earned a diploma in […]
Distributional Impacts of Climate Policy: A Comprehensive Approach
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York September 11, 2015 The purpose of the workshop is to present the Inequality Impact Assessment (IIA) model as well as preliminary findings of the model’s application to cap-and-trade carbon dioxide emission reduction policies, and to discuss revisions, modifications, and future additions to the model. This research […]
The Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar
Organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford Foundation Levy Institute Blithewood Annandale-on-Hudson, New York June 12–20, 2015 The sixth Minsky Summer Seminar was held at the Levy Economics Institute in June 2015, with 53 students participating. The annual Seminar provides a rigorous discussion of both the theoretical […]
The Many Faces of Poverty in the United States
Presented by the Bard College Economics Program and the Levy Economics Institute Room 202, Olin Hall, Bard College May 4, 2015, 5:00 p.m. Sophie Mitra is associate professor in the department of economics at Fordham University, with research interests in disability, development, and applied microeconomics. She holds an MA in development economics and a doctorate […]
Bard Labor Workshop
Levy Economics Institute Blithewood Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. April 20, 2015 Cosponsored by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and SEIU 775 This daylong workshop will address three primary themes: the state of the American labor movement, the future of work, and new models of organizing and worker power. An expert panel will address each topic, […]
24th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference
Organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford Foundation The National Press Club Washington, D.C. April 15–16, 2015 The 2015 Minsky Conference addressed, among other issues, the design, flaws, and current status of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, including implementation of the operating procedures necessary to curtail […]
Europe at the Crossroads: A Union of Austerity or Growth Convergence?
Coorganized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and Economia Civile with support from the Ford Foundation, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, and Marinopoulos AE Megaron Athens International Conference Centre Athens, Greece November 21–22, 2014 On November 21 and 22, the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College held its second annual conference at the Megaron Athens International […]
Jan A. Kregel Festschrift Conference
Blithewood Annandale-on-Hudson, New York October 23, 2014 Jan A. Kregel’s multifaceted research agenda has included macroeconomic theory and policy, methodology, growth and capital theory, unemployment, development and trade, uncertainty, formulation of risk, the role of the state, finance, the financial structure and instability, central banking, macroprudential supervision, globalization, the Economic and Monetary Union, and the […]
The 12th International Post Keynesian Conference
Kansas City, Missouri September 25–28, 2014 Cosponsored by the University of Missouri–Kansas City, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, and Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, with support from the Ford Foundation The 2014 Post Keynesian Conference will address many of the traditional areas of research covered by Post-Keynesian and other heterodox approaches to economics, with […]
The Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar
Organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford Foundation Levy Institute Blithewood Annandale-on-Hudson, New York June 13–21, 2014 The fifth annual Minsky Summer Seminar was held at the Levy Economics Institute in June, with 59 students participating. The Summer Seminar provides a rigorous discussion of both the theoretical and the […]
Lecture by Nicos Christodoulakis, Former Greek Economics and Finance Minister
Presented by the Bard College Economics Program and the Levy Economics Institute Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito ’60 Auditorium, Bard College April 16, 2014, 4:30 p.m. From 1996 to 2004, Nicos Christodoulakis was successively deputy minister of finance, minister for industry and energy, and minister of the economy and finance in Greece. He was chairman […]
23rd Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference
The National Press Club Washington, D.C. April 9–10, 2014 Organized by the Levy Economics Institute with support from the Ford Foundation Click here for video. Despite the appearance of greater stability in the US financial system since the 2008–09 global recession, the economic recovery remains fragile and uneven, and social conditions are expected to improve […]