Second exam topic

 

• Finance capitalism is in crisis. What are the various facets of its crisis? What solutions have been offered? Are they sufficient?

 

Take home exam topic

Public development banks. Microfinance. FDI and industrial development. Helicopter money. Are these solid ideas that could help development or are they just fads?

Please email it to me in word doc by tomorrow at noon.

we start at 9 am tomorrow

Tomorrow is a wrap-up session so we don’t need the full 3 hrs. See you at 9.15 (after 15 mins for student evals)

Final topic

1. Some argue that economic prosperity could not exist without deregulated finance and high debt. Others think that the price we pay for hem (financial crises, austerity) is too high to be worth it and argue for radical reforms. What do you think?
2. Public development banks. Microfinance. FDI and industrial development. Helicopter money. Are these solid ideas that could help development or are they just fads?
3. There is a lot of talk about insurgency finance and Islamic finance. Media often conflates the two. What is a more educated view?
4. Finance capitalism is in crisis. What are the various facets of its crisis? What solutions have been offered? Are they sufficient?