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Fellow and professor examine role of IMF in financial crises in developing countries

Clare Kossler | Tuesday, February 3, 2015

In a lecture in the Hesburgh Center auditorium Tuesday hosted by the Kellogg Institute, visiting Kellogg fellow Bumba Mukherjee and Notre Dame assistant professor Alexandra Guisinger spoke about their joint research on financial crises in developing countries and the conditions associated with the success of International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs in those countries. Mukherjee said based on the duo’s research,

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Changing the economic discussion

Robert Alvarez | Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Not many people see the study of economics as having very dire moral implications. It likes to market itself as a science, like any other science, which merely describes reality, whereas if it had moral implications it would have to make judgements upon the value of different kinds of possible realities. However, this type of