Monday, December 2, 2013

Steve Keen on the International Financial Order

Steve Keen in the video below discusses the history of the international payments system as designed at Bretton Woods, and in particular Keynes’s Ban­cor plan versus Harry Dexter White’s plan, as well as modern money and banking.

The talk was given at the Meeting of Finance Ministers of Latin America in Quito on November 29th 2013.


Sunday, December 1, 2013

Marshall Auerback Interviews Jan Kregel

Marshall Auerback interviews Jan Kregel in the video below in a short but interesting discussion about China, the East Asian financial crisis, financial systems and the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives.