Calendrier du 06 octobre 2021
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 06/10/2021 de 16:00 à 17:30
Salle R1.14, Campus Jourdan
ASTORE Marianna (PSE)
The industrial intervention of the Bank of Italy (1893-1936). Another Gerschenkronian factor in the Italian economic development?
Economic History Seminar
Du 06/10/2021 de 12:00 à 13:30
Salle R2.21, Campus Jourdan
RO'EE LEVY Jonathan (Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics)
The Volcker Shock and a New Age of American Capitalism
This presentation is drawn from Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States (2021). In US economic history, the Volcker interest rate shock of 1979-1982 is commonly cited for ending a decade-long period of price inflation. Here, the Volcker shock is placed at the center of a broader transformation of American and global capitalism that gave rise to a new political economy of asset price appreciation, and a new “age” of American capitalism: the Age of Chaos.