Programs

New Research Directions in Money, Finance & Public Policy

After 2008, traditions emphasizing the political economy of money attracted significant attention for their insights into the unfolding crisis and the impact of stabilization policy. COVID presented another such opportunity. The extraordinary “big monetary” and “big fiscal” policy responses during these episodes offered real-world illustrations of monetary-fiscal operations, technical aspects of public finance, continued financial fragility, and a range of de-risking strategies that could only be pursued by public financing institutions. They also raised once more key questions about the nature of stabilization policy, this time including interest rate increases, industrial strategies, and policies for economic security and the green transition.

In November 2023, Economic Democracy Initiative and Levy Economics Institute welcomed scholars for a two-day, in-person workshop on new research directions in the areas of money, finance, and public policy for intersecting crises, exploring synergies between different research traditions. 

All sessions of the workshop were recorded and are available to watch online. 

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EDI Summer Workshop

Organized and hosted by the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI), this five-day workshop is for undergraduate students interested in public policy to tackle economic instability and insecurity, and in understanding the financing capacity and policy space available to governments to pursue these aims. All undergraduate students (from OSUN and other institutions) are eligible to apply.

Post-Neoliberalism Symposium

Our current historical juncture contains a remarkable potential for progressive social transformation beyond the reproduction and intensification of the strained neoliberal economic order. In a series of online symposia, the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative will explore this potential by convening a trans-disciplinary discussion of key aspects of the nascent transformation.

The Job Guarantee

The JobGuarantee.org site created by EDI is an essential resource for scholars, policymakers, and engaged citizens. The site's key features include updated news on public policy toward a job guarantee, a world map of historical and contemporary public service employment programs and job guarantee pilot programs, a reading list with 50 books, a repository of more than 300 scholarly works, and polls compiled from around the world which demonstrate broad-based support for a job guarantee.

EDI Policy

• In 2020 EDI Director testified before the US Financial Services Committee, European Parliament, French National Assembly, and Mexico City Congress.
• A Job Guarantee for the U.S.
• A Job Guarantee in the European Union
• A Job Guarantee for France: Un emploi vert pour tous
• UN-Geneva Glocal Leadership Forum, Belgium's Royal Academy of Sciences presentation.

Research

• EDI Notes
• Working Papers
• Economic Democracy Keynote Lectures
• Research to Action Lecture Series
• EDI Data Resource Tools
• Research Scholars