Originally Published on May 20, 2015. Event took place on May 16th, 5 p.m. Riccardo Bellofiore Bio: Bellofiore is a professor of monetary economics and history of economic thought at the University of Bergamo, is Professor, Department of Economics 'Hyman P. Minsky', also Faculty of Economics, University of Bergamo, Italy and Research Associate, History where His main research interests are monetary theory, value theory and the history of economic analysis. Also part of the Economics Group, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Warren Mosler Bio: Mosler is an American economist and theorist, and one of the leading voices in the field of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Presently, Warren resides on St. Croix, in the US Virgin Islands, where he owns and operates Valance Co., Inc. An entrepreneur and financial professional, Warren Mosler has spent the past 40 years gaining an insider’s knowledge of monetary operations. He co-founded AVM, a broker/dealer providing advanced financial services to large institutional accounts and the Illinois Income Investors (III) family of investment funds in 1982, which he turned over to his partners at the end of 1997. He began his career after graduating from the University of Connecticut with a B.A. in Economics in 1971 and has been deeply involved in the academic community, giving presentations at conferences around the world and publishing numerous articles in economic journals, newspapers, and periodicals. He is attributed with creating Mosler’s law that states, “there is no financial crisis so deep that a sufficiently large fiscal adjustment cannot deal with it.” Mosler is the author of “The Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy” located here from Mosler's website: https://goo.gl/xOeKRT that has been translated into Italian, Polish, and Spanish. L. Randall Wray Bio: Wray is a senior scholar and professor of economics at Bard College. His current research focuses on providing a critique of orthodox monetary theory and policy, and the development of an alternative approach. He also publishes extensively in the areas of full employment policy and, more generally, fiscal policy. With President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, he is working to publish, or republish, the work of the late financial economist Hyman P. Minsky, and is using Minsky’s approach to analyze the current global financial crisis. Wray is the author of Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies, 1990; Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment and Price Stability, 1998; and Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems, 2012 (2nd rev. ed., 2015). He is also coeditor of, and a contributor to, Money, Financial Instability, and Stabilization Policy, 2006, and Keynes for the 21st Century: The Continuing Relevance of The General Theory, 2008. Wray taught at the University of Missouri–Kansas City from 1999 to 2015 and at the University of Denver from 1987 to 1999, and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Paris and Rome (La Sapienza). He holds a BA from the University of the Pacific and an MA and a Ph.D. from Washington University, where he was a student of Minsky.
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