Reflections on the Global Financial Crisis

In the middle of January I took part in a rountable on the financial crisis with the brilliant Professor Donald MacKenzie and the excellent Dr Iain Hardie.  Details of the roundtable are here.

It was the first opportunity to present some of the research I have been doing (increasingly obsessively) on what John Maynard Keynes’s work has to offer us for understanding and responding to the current financial crisis and economic downturn.  Much, I would argue.  And not just in terms of the case for fiscal stimulus.  In fact this may well be the least interesting part of the puzzle.  For me, the issues of uncertainty and international monetary reform are potentially far more important.  These themes will be revisited and hopefully improved for a talk at UCL with the to the Commonwealth Secretariat and in New York for the International Studies Convention in February.