Past Events
Please find links to all our past events stretching right back to 2005.
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 […]
Employer of Last Resort: Growth and Fiscal Effects
Organized by the Observatory on Economic and Social Developments, Labour Institute, Greek General Confederation of Labour, Athens (INE-GSEE) Park Hotel Athens, Greece March 11, 2014 For the event program, click here.
Rania Antonopoulos: Responding to the Unemployment Crisis in Greece
Presented as part of the MMx seminar “The Disparate Impact of Unemployment: Macroeconomic Policy as a Tool for Race, Gender, and Age Discrimination,” hosted by the Modern Money Network Columbia University, New York November 25, 2013 Rania Antonopoulos, senior scholar and director of the Levy Institute’s Gender Equality and the Economy program, outlines her proposal […]
The Eurozone Crisis, Greece, and the Experience of Austerity,Athens, Greece
Organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford Foundation November 8–9, 2013 Megaron Athens International Conference Centre This conference was organized as part of the Levy Institute’s international research agenda and in conjunction with the Ford Foundation Project on Financial Instability, which draws on Hyman Minsky’s extensive work on […]