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Diversifying To Mitigate Risk: Can Dodd–Frank Section 342 Help Stabilize The Financial Sector?, Steven A. Ramirez

Steven A. Ramirez

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Public Actors In Private Markets: Toward A Developmental Finance State, Robert Hockett, Saule Omarova

Saule T. Omarova

The recent financial crisis brought into sharp relief fundamental questions about the social function and purpose of the financial system, including its relation to the “real” economy. This Article argues that, to answer these questions, we must recapture a distinctively American view of the proper relations among state, financial market, and development. This programmatic vision – captured in what we call a “developmental finance state” – is based on three key propositions: (1) that economic and social development is not an “end-state” but a continuing national policy priority; (2) that the modalities of finance are the most potent means of …

Gambling On Our Financial Future: How The Federal Government Fiddles While State Common Law Is A Safer Bet To Prevent Another Financial Collapse, Brian M. Mccall

Brian M McCall

The (Not So) Great Depression Of The 21st Century And Its Impact On Brazil, Marcos A. P. Valadão, Ivo T. Gico

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

At this point there are many papers discussing how the Great Depression of the 21st century came to be, its causes and the things that need to be changed in the world’s financial market in order to overcome and prevent it from happening again. We would like to contribute to the debate by sharing some of the experiences we had in our own country that may shed some light on how it really affected developing countries, especially Brazil. This is the main purpose of the present paper, to discuss how the sub-prime international crisis affected the Brazilian economy, the counter-cyclical …