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Week 2 — Lectures 2 & 3, Reading 1
Perry Mehrling's Money and Banking MOOC
Location:
Online
Type:
Other
YSI Presenters
Description
We're discussing the following for week 2:
Lecture 2: The Natural Hierarchy of Money
Lecture Notes
This lecture provides an overview of the whole course. If you've done the MOOC before, it should feel familiar.
Lecture 3: Money and the State: Domestic
Lecture Notes
We practice the balance sheet notation by using it to describe Civil War finance and features of the US banking system leading up to the creation of the Fed.
Reading 1: Four encyclopedia chapters by Allyn Young
Study Questions
Young, writing in the 1920s has a particular perspective on the nature of money and credit, as well as the purpose of banking.
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Celso Gonzalez
Márta Mizsák
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Alessandro Bonetti
Bruno Höfig
Rok Piletic
Jesus Uriegas
Chris Rimmer
Emmanuel owusu-Ankamah
Ramon Gimenez
Lauren Goodwin
Raphaele Chappe
Jim Bramlett
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