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25-475: Launched in 2008, the site was intended for PhD students to discuss the Economics job market. The original founder of the site was an anonymous academic who went by the name Tatonnement , who later handed EJMR over to its current administrator, who goes by the name Kirk . In May 2023, the fraud-tracking website Hucksters.net connected David Griffith-Jones , the son of famed economist Stephany Griffith-Jones , to

50-798: A member of the Governor Board at the Central Bank of Chile . She has held various positions throughout her career, including financial markets director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue based at Columbia University , associate fellow at the Overseas Development Institute , and professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University . Griffith-Jones has an extensive background in international organizations, having worked as deputy director of International Finance at

75-671: Is married to Ana Lucía Lalinde and has three children. Rocio, 30, holds a B.A in Political Science from Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, an MS in Gender from the same University and an MS in water from Brighton University in England; she currently works in ECLAC Mexico. Juan Camilo, 20, graduated from Horace Mann School and is currently in his second year at Columbia University where he

100-892: Is the book Time for the Visible Hand: Lessons from the 2008 Crisis , which she co-edited with José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph Stiglitz , published in 2010. Griffith-Jones was born in Prague and moved to Chile at the age of one. She received her primary and secondary education in Chile and graduated from the University of Chile . Notably, she is the niece of Franz Kafka . She adopted her current surname after marrying British mathematician Robert Griffith-Jones. Additionally, she served as an economic advisor to Chilean president Gabriel Boric during his presidential campaign. Griffith-Jones has contributed to research and policy suggestions on how to make

125-1025: The Commonwealth Secretariat , and for the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean . Her career began in 1970 at the Central Bank of Chile, and she also gained experience at Barclays Bank International in the UK before joining the Institute of Development Studies. She has served as a senior consultant to governments in Eastern Europe and Latin America , as well as to international agencies such as

150-812: The National University of Colombia . He has also taught as visiting professor at Cambridge , Oxford and Yale Universities and lectured in many other institutions while participating in many policy and academic conferences around the world. Ocampo is author or editor of over 40 books and has published some 300 scholarly articles on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic and social development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history. He has also directed some 20 institutional reports. His most recent books include The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence , with Luis Bértola (forthcoming 2012);

175-927: The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics , edited with Jaime Ros (2011); Time for a Visible Hand: Lessons from the 2008 World Financial Crisis , edited with Stephany Griffith-Jones and Joseph E. Stiglitz (2010); Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach , with Lance Taylor and Codrina Rada (2009); and Capital Account Liberalization and Development , edited with Joseph E. Stiglitz (2008). His past books include Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development , with Joseph E. Stiglitz et al. (2006); Regional Financial Cooperation (2006); International Finance and Development (2006); Globalization and Development: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective (2003);

200-775: The UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System. In the political realm, he served in 2003-2007 as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs. As such, he chaired the UN Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs and headed the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs , which produces a wide range of research and analytical work on development issues, leads

225-610: The University of Notre Dame in 1972 with BAs in Sociology and Economics , in 1976 he received his PhD in Economics from Yale University with his dissertation Capital accumulation and international relations . From 2008-2010, he was co-director of the UNDP / OAS Project on “Agenda for a Citizens’ Democracy in Latin America”. In 2009, he was a Member of the Commission of Experts of

250-713: The World Bank , the Inter-American Development Bank , the European Commission , UNICEF , UNDP , and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development . Griffith-Jones was a member of the Warwick Commission on international financial reform. As an author, Griffith-Jones has published over 20 books and has written numerous scholarly and journalistic articles. One of her notable works

275-668: The Central Bank's ( Bank of the Republic ) Board, Director of the National Planning Department , and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. In the academic sphere, he served as Executive Director of FEDESARROLLO, Colombia's main think tank on economic issues, Director of the Centre for Economic Development Studies at the University of the Andes , Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes, and Professor of Economic History at

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300-710: The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean , and in Colombia as Minister of Finance and Public Credit and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development . On 23 March 2012, Ocampo was nominated by Brazil as a candidate to lead the World Bank . Ocampo's native Colombia declined to endorse his bid, however, and with limited backing he withdrew from the race on 13 April 2012 and swung his support behind Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala . In 2022, President of Colombia Gustavo Petro appointed him as Minister of Finance . Ocampo graduated from

325-675: The Economic and Political Development Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University from July 2007 to August 2022. Prior to his appointment, Ocampo served in a number of positions in the United Nations and the Government of Colombia , most notably in the United Nations as Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and Executive Secretary for

350-461: The IMF in the face of external shocks to make it larger, speedier and with less conditionality . Similarly she was an early supporter of expanding development banks - nationally, regionally and multilaterally - and their role in counter-cyclical lending. She has also advocated the issue of GDP-linked bonds as a counter-cyclical mechanism to reduce the risk of financial crises . She has long supported

375-518: The analysis of crisis prevention, especially through financial regulation and more effective financial crisis management. For example, she advocated special drawing rights issues by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a means to provide official liquidity when private capital flows fall sharply. She also advocated expanded and less conditional IMF lending so countries do not have to unnecessarily adjust their economies, especially in

400-717: The domestic and international financial system more stable so it can better serve the needs of inclusive economic development and the real economy . One of her first articles, The Growth of Multinational Banking, the Euro-currency market and their effects on developing countries in the Journal of Development Studies, published in 1980, warned of the risk of excessive international bank lending to developing economies . Her 1986 book with Osvaldo Sunkel, Debt and Development Crises in Latin America: The End of An Illusion , showed

425-553: The face of financial crises or other external shocks. Writing with José Antonio Ocampo since the late 1990s they expanded the concept of counter-cyclical reform of the international financial system to help stabilise capital flows and domestic private lending. The aim was to avoid frequent costly crises, facilitate macro-economic management and to achieve stable and inclusive economic growth in developing countries. She has worked on practical policy applications of these ideas. She has advocated reform of compensatory financing at

450-656: The follow-up to the major UN Summits and Conferences, and provides substantive and organizational support to the UN Economic and Social Council ECOSOC and the General Assembly. Previously, from 1998 to 2003 he was Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ( ECLAC ) and from 1989 to 1997 he held a number of high-level posts in the Government of Colombia , including Minister of Finance and Public Credit, and as such, Chair of

475-515: The forum as “a cesspool of misogyny.” In 2023, researchers at Boston University and Yale University were able to discern the IP addresses of forum users from the poorly anonymized random usernames. This is due to the site using a one-way hash without a Salt . These IP addresses were associated with many organizations. According to the researchers, "our analysis reveals that the users who post on EJMR are predominantly economists, including those working in

500-458: The idea of counter-cyclical regulation. These and other practical measures are aimed at reforming the financial system so that it supports stable inclusive economic growth without costly financial crises . Jos%C3%A9 Antonio Ocampo José Antonio Ocampo Gaviria (born 20 December 1952) is a Colombian writer , economist and academic who was the professor of professional practice in international and public affairs and director of

525-451: The mid-1990s to advocate capital flow regulations in capital source countries as a way to curb excessive and volatile capital flows . She believed this would reduce the risk of major reversals of capital flows and the financial crises that result from them. This is further discussed in her 1998 book Global Capital Flows, should they be regulated? In the discussion on reform of the international financial architecture she contributed to

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550-612: The negative effects of the 1980s Latin American debt crisis on the region's economic development. She was an early advocate of debt relief in Latin America and Sub-saharan Africa . Writing with Ricardo Ffrench-Davis in the 1990s she contributed to the debate on how Latin America could curb and manage volatile capital flows . She again warned of the risks of costly financial crises if sufficient measures such as capital controls were not implemented. After several financial crises, mainly in developing countries , she started in

575-476: The ownership history of EJMR , although he claimed in emails with Inside Higher Ed that he was no longer involved with the website. In 2017, economics major Alice Wu researched the top words used in conversation along male/female lines and discovered that conversations about men contain more words related to economics, while conversations about women relate more to physical and personal attributes. University of California, Berkeley economist David Romer described

600-577: The three-volume Economic History of Twentieth Century Latin America (2000), edited with Enrique Cárdenas and Rosemary Thorp; and more than ten editions of Historia Económica de Colombia (2007), originally published in 1977, and considered to be the best known text on the subject. He has also written co-written a book chapter, with Stephany Griffith-Jones, Helping control boom-bust in finance through countercyclical regulation in Towards human development new approaches to macroeconomics and inequality . Ocampo

625-546: The upper echelons of academia, government and the private sector". This article about an Internet forum is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Stephany Griffith-Jones Stephany Griffith-Jones (born Stepanka Novy Kafka in 5 June 1947) is an economist specializing in international finance and development . Her expertise lies in the reform of the international financial system , particularly in financial regulation , global governance , and international capital flows. Currently, she serves as

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