The Mathematisation of Economics
A Twentieth-Century History 1. Boumans M. The Mathematisation of Economics: A Twentieth-Century History. Cambridge University Press; 2026. The mathematisation of economics took place in three different ways, each based on an image of mathematics that was endorsed by a practice of mathematisation and which remained the dominant image until another image became dominant. The first dominant […]
Branko Milanovic: The facts of the European (EU27) income convergence
The issue of income convergence within the European Union has recently been much discussed. There seem to be two reasons for this. First, it is undeniable that using either macro indicators (like GDP per capita) or data from household surveys like SILC there has been a reduction of between-country and inter-personal inequality within the 27 […]
Stablecoins Meet the Mundell–Fleming Trilemma
Pablo Azar, Maryam Farboodi, and Nish D. Sinha We study how stablecoins impact global capital flows by constructing a novel wallet-level dataset linking geotagged Ethereum Name Service registrations to stablecoin transactions around banking restrictions, currency crises, sanctions, and monetary disruptions. We find that crisis-country wallets experience significant increases in USD stablecoin inflows and receipt activity […]
Has the Chinese yuan’s rise in global usage hit a wall?
Martin Chorzempa t is widely known that global use of China’s currency, the yuan, rose substantially in 2023–24 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as sanctions and the related reordering of Russian trade drove geopolitical tailwinds to the yuan, also known as the renminbi (RMB). What is less known—and contrary to headlines that China is “ditching” […]
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Δραματική, Ρουμανία-Γαλλία-Νορβηγία, 2026, έγχρωμο, 146’ Σκηνοθεσία: Κριστιάν Μουνγκίου Πρωταγωνιστούν: Σεμπάστιαν Σταν, Ρενάτε Ράινσβε, Λίσα Κάρλεχεντ Η ανοχή για το διαφορετικό δοκιμάζεται σε μια κοινότητα στην Νορβηγία – στην χώρα των φιλελεύθερων κοινωνικών αξιών και της οικονομικής σοσιαλδημοκρατίας. Εν προκειμένω, αυτό το διαφορετικό έγκειται στην θρησκευτική παράδοση –ίσως τον θρησκευτικό φανατισμό– και σε βαθιά συντηρητικές κοινωνικές […]