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Two-day Hayek Summer Workshop in Leipzig brings 15 selected students through focused sessions on monetary policy, credit cycles, malinvestment and overconsumption, capital flows, and the political economy of crisis responses. Readings and case papers guide analysis of policy tools and outcomes, including measured lectures on financial repression, exit strategies from monetary expansion, and empirical work on low growth. Sessions tie theory to practice by asking whether open source money changes incentives and crisis management.
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- 0:00Hayek summer workshop welcome
- 1:07Workshop overview
- 5:30Workshop instructors
- 13:24Day one program
- 14:06Monetary policy cycles
- 16:40Government failure and lobbying
- 17:45Day two program
- 18:06Capital flows and repression
- 20:51Inequality and growth
- 21:56Workshop wrap-up
- 24:07Live chat
- 29:24Debt-based monetary critique
- 31:55Workshop location and reading
- 33:21Key papers and Bitcoin cycles
- 37:40Exit strategies and Bitcoin
- 39:09Voluntary education sponsorship
