“Does it really make sense to perpetuate a system in which disastrous financial risks are built into the profit-driven provision of basic financial products like pensions and mortgages?… Why do the smoke detectors fail again and again? And why is the house not more fire proof? It is time to ask who benefits and who pays the cost for continuing with this dangerously inflammable system.” – Adam Tooze
In a world of global political and economic instability, my studies at the University of Sydney led me to the Discipline of Political Economy. I have been particularly animated by taking one course, or unit of study, which is ECOP1003: Production, Trade and Finance. This is precisely the type of course that gives students a deeper understanding of the problems we are facing today. The unit introduces a wide range of authors, theories and debates spanning trade, development, inequality, globalisation and international financial systems. It is both intellectually stimulating and deeply relevant to the challenges shaping our world.
En 1999, el Servicio Postal Mexicano, que por entonces era de propiedad estatal, emitió un sello conmemorativo para celebrar los sesenta y cinco años del banco de desarrollo ‘Nacional Financiera’ (Nafin) de México.
