Upcoming Events
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6/16Monday8:30 am – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Olin Hall
32nd Annual Levy Economics Institute Conference on Money, Finance, and Economic Strategies in Fractured Times
Monday, June 16, 2025 | 8:30 am – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin HallKeynote by US House Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17)
The Annual Levy Institute Conference has returned as an in-person event this year,
taking place June 16th at Olin Hall on the Bard College campus in Annandale-on-
Hudson, NY, and brings together policymakers, economists, financial market
practitioners, journalists, activists, and others, to discuss pressing issues in public
policy and the state of the US and global economies.
We are pleased to welcome US House Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) to the
Levy Institute as the Keynote Speaker at the 32nd Annual Levy
Economics Institute Conference on Money, Finance, and Economic Strategies in
Fractured Times.
This year’s conference will feature panels on current sources of financial fragility,
new directions in public finance, visions for the next progressive policy agenda,
climate finance, balance of payments constraints, the global economy, and more.
Speakers include:
Daniel Alpert, Westwood Capital | Leila Davis, University of Massachusetts Boston |
Rogerio Studart, Brazilian Center for International Relations | Talmon Joseph
Smith, The New York Times | Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Levy Institute | James K.
Galbraith, University of Texas at Austin | L. Randall Wray, Levy Institute | Ryan
Cooper, The American Prospect | Alan Minsky, Progressive Democrats of America |
Gennaro Zezza, Levy Institute | Yan Liang, Willamette University | Ndongo Samba
Sylla, International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs-Africa) | Fadhel
Kaboub, Denison University
There are several options for registration:
1. Attending only the Keynote Address by US Rep. Ro Khanna (free; registration
is required), 2:00-3:30pm
2. Bard College faculty, staff, or students who wish to attend the full day conference,
please write to Laura Zutel Agnoletti at [email protected]
3. Members of the public who want to attend the full Conference ($150, or $50 for students), the program begins 8:45am
Sponsored by: Levy Economics Institute
Contact: Laura Zutel Agnoletti
Phone: 845-758-7700
E-mail: [email protected]
New Directions in Money, Finance & Public Policy
OSUN 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. The event was held at Blithewood on November 3–4, 2023.
Event Program
All sessions were recorded and are available to watch online.
The Job Guarantee as a Tool in the Fight Against Poverty
Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, experts on poverty and employment policy, as well as leading job guarantee advocates and practitioners unpack the role of the job guarantee in the fight against poverty and the conditions under which it can be successful.
When Jobs Return: Results from Marienthal's Fight against Unemployment with Lukas Lehner
Lukas Lehner, of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford Martin School, presented the results from a study that evaluates a one-of-a-kind job creation program in Marienthal, Austria. The pilot aims to eliminate long-term unemployment in the municipality and improve participants’ economic and social situation. The program was recently discussed in the New Yorker.
Assessing Global Progress in Advancing the Job Guarantee
This panel brings experts and policymakers who are developing or already managing large-scale national employment policies informed by the principles of the job guarantee. There are multi-pronged strategies for securing the right to decent work to all and developing employment-centered economic policies.
The mutating virus of global inequality
Join us for our second Economic Democracy Keynote with scholar Jayati Ghosh, Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Massachusetts- Amherst and Advisor to the United Nations HLAB on Economic and Social Affairs.
Global Forum on Democratizing Work
WORK: DEMOCRATIZE, DECOMMODIFY, REMEDIATE
5–7 October 2021 / Online
Registration opens June 1st
You’re invited to the first-ever Global Forum on Democratizing Work co-sponsored by the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative.
William "Sandy" Darity Awarded with Honorary Doctorate
Faculty Sponsor OSUN-EDI Director, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Bard College has awarded William "Sandy" Darity with an Honorary Doctorate (Spring 2021).