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L. Randall Wray is a professor of economics and director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College in New York. His current research focuses on providing a critique of orthodox monetary policy, and the development of an alternative approach. He also publishes extensively in the areas of full employment policy and the monetary theory of production. With President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, he is working to publish, or republish, the work of the late financial economist Hyman P. Minsky, and is using Minsky's approach to analyze the current global financial crisis. He is the author of Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies, 1990, and Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment and Price Stability, 1998. He is also coeditor of, and a contributor to, Money, Financial Instability, and Stabilization Policy, 2006, and Keynes for the 21st Century: The Continuing Relevance of The General Theory, 2008.
For a complete list of Professor Wray’s publications and links to working papers, click here
Professor Wray will make a presentation and start off a discussion on the prospects for full employment and the potential application of employment guarantee programs in USA and other countries.
His presentation will be followed by panel discussion.
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