Monday, May 20, 2024

Debt cycles and the long term crisis of neoliberalism

My talk at the IDEAS/PERI conference a few weeks ago. As I said there, I hate to be the optimist in the room, but I'm a bit more skeptical about the risks of a generalized sovereign debt crisis in the Global South. The two papers I cite are these (in their PERI Working Paper versions) two (one and two).

Sunday, May 19, 2024

Esteban Pérez Caldentey on the Ideas of Raúl Prebisch

Esteban Pérez's talk at the University of Chile, about Raúl Prebisch, about whom we have written several papers. This is in Spanish.

IMF surcharges

A long demand by progressive economists demanding the end of the surcharges that the IMF imposed on developing countries has had a positive...