Progress report on WP2
Work Package 2 on Comparative Perspectives on Financial Systems in the EU is now drawing towards completion, and had been the main focus of our work in the first year…
Report on Annual conference 17th/19th October 2013 (links to papers presented & video)
The second FESSUD Conference was held on 17th to 19th Oct 2013 at the Crowne Plaza Amsterdam Schiphol, Hoofddorp. The aims of the conference were to discuss the ways in which…
4-5 November – FESSUD researcher Jan Toporowski will participate in a discussion on the Euro at the University of Texas
Jan Toporowski, Leader of Work Package 6 and Chair of the Steering Committee will be participating in a discussion on the Euro at the University of Texas, Austin on the…
What is “financialization”?
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London organises on the 23rd of October a workshop with the aim to clarify the concept of “Financialization”. The event…
Progressive Economy – CALL FOR PAPERS
Progressive Economy is organising a major call for papers on four research topics under the authority of its Scientific Board, which includes leading academics such as Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Joseph Stiglitz,…
Our first in-depth reports on financialization in various European Countries
The first nine Studies in Financial Systems have now been published. What is the nature and structure of financial system in a country?; how has it evolved in the past…
New FESSUD publication in the Working Paper Series
Bayliss, K., Fine, B., Robertson, M.: From Financialisation to Consumption: The Systems of Provision Approach Applied to Housing and Water
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Workshop on Empirical Monetary Economics
This one‐day workshop will take place at Sciences Po in Paris on December 10th 2013, with a limited number of selected presenters, plus discussants for each paper. The keynote speaker…
Reconstructing the European Economy
14th of June, FESSUD Lead Coordinator Prof. Malcolm Sawyer (U Leeds, UK) and FESSUD researcher Prof Terry McKinley (SOAS, UK) contribute to the conference Reconstructing the European Economy Learn more…
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Financialisation in the European Periphery and the sovereign debt crisis
CES (http://www.ces.uc.pt ), Portugal participated on May 24th, 2013 at the 3rd International Conference in Economics 2013, Oporto, Portugal, and presented the paper: Financialisation in the European Periphery and the…
FESSUD research report presented at ECB in Frankfurt
FESSUD WP leader, Jerome Creel, presented on Thursday 23 May, 2013 at the fiscal policies division of the European Central Bank, in Frankfurt am Main, the paper (prepared jointly with…
Labour, Financialisation and the Nature of Contemporary Capitalism
Frances Coppola has written a thought-provoking piece drawing an eye-catching parallel between wage labour and slave labour to help describe the contemporary phenomenon of “The Financialisation of Labour”. Here I will argue…
Financialisation and the financial crisis, FESSUD annual conference
When: Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th October 2013 Where: Crowne Plaza Schiphol, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The conference will address many of the central FESSUD issues, such as the ways in which the growth…
Money, money, money – the growth in the power of finance around the world
(Yorkshire Post, 18/04/13) An article by Dr Andrew Brown and Professor David Spencer (LUBS) features the Financialisation, Economy Society and Sustainable Development (FESSUD) project, a €10m international research consortium led…
FESSUD researcher, David Spencer, questions the state of economics
“The academic discipline of economics ought to be in crisis. Its reputation has been severely damaged by the financial crisis. The implosion of finance and the slowdown in economic growth…