Peter Dietsch, François Claveau, and Clément Fontan just signed a new book entitled Do central banks serve the people?, published with Polity. In the wake of the 2007 financial crisis, central banks injected trillions of dollars of liquidity – through quantitative easing – to prevent financial meltdown and stimulate the economy. The untold story behind these measures is that […] Read more
The Canada Research Chair in Applied Epistemology seeks a research assistant for its project Post-2007 Central Banking: Expertise and Policies. The main task of the assistant will involve computer-assisted analysis of corpora (text mining). The goal of this part of the project is to characterize the extent and possible blinders of central bank research. The […] Read more
Two short texts based on Fontan, Claveau and Dietsch (2016), Central Banking and Inequalities: Taking Off the Blinders, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, are now online! In English: Dietsch, Fontan and Claveau, Central Banking and Inequalities -- Taking Off the Blinders, CEP blog, 16 June 2016. In French: Fontan, Banques centrales et inégalités économiques, La Vie […] Read more
