Dinner Parties During "Lost Decades": On the Difficulties of Rethinking Financial Markets, Fostering Elite Consensus, and Renewing Political Economy

Two groups of problems that ought to be understood in relation to one another: economic trends in the North Atlantic societies, and the capacity to collectively thinking, discussing, and even decide on what to do about our economy. Part One argues that economic policy and economic life are not only...

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Main Author: Westbrook, David A.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law 2013
Subjects:
anthropology of finance
digital communication
inflation targeting
financial crisis
monetary policy
sovereign debt
financial markets
securities markets
financial regulation
Eurozone crisis
budget deficits
political economy
World Economics Assoc
Law
Law and Economics
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/journal_articles/619
https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1618&context=journal_articles
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Summary:Two groups of problems that ought to be understood in relation to one another: economic trends in the North Atlantic societies, and the capacity to collectively thinking, discussing, and even decide on what to do about our economy. Part One argues that economic policy and economic life are not only intertwined, but compromise one another. Part Two uses the World Economics Association's recent virtual conference, Rethinking Financial Markets to discuss some possibilities for fostering collective thought. Part Three briefly discusses the nature of the economy at the present time, i.e., the tasks confronting contemporary economic policy elites.

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