How to guide innovative AI efforts to increase labor demand and create better-paying jobs?
Article | Government & Politics, Inequality & Distribution, Macroeconomics
Wage Stagnation and Populism: A Comment on David Brooks and Noah Smith
Times have changed. Now we have David Brooks, of The New York Times, and economics blogger Noah Smith defending neoliberal globalization from the pincer movement of anti-trade populists from both the right and the left.
Webinars and Events | Macroeconomics, Trade
The End of Globalization? With Paul Krugman
Four months of the Trump presidency have already changed the world as we knew it. How did we get here? What consequences have the tariffs had and will have? How will U.S.-European trade relations evolve? What about the confrontation with China?
Article | Health, Technology & Innovation
Rethinking Pharmaceutical Innovation Policy
Misaligned incentives account for many of the most troubling features of the pharmaceutical industry’s present practices and performance.
By Talha Syed
Working Paper | Technology & Innovation
Steering Technological Progress
By Anton Korinek and Joe Stiglitz
Article | Government & Politics
Currency Wars, Social Class, and the Republican Dilemma Over Medicaid
By Thomas Ferguson and Jie Chen
Article | Inequality & Distribution, Macroeconomics
Distributional and Macroeconomic Effects of Trump 2.0
By Simon Grothe and Michalis Nikiforos
Working Paper | Energy, Environment
By Yaroslav Melekh, James Dixon, Katrina Salmon, and Michael Grubb
Article | Energy, Environment
A new INET Working Paper by Yaroslav Melekh, James Dixon, Katrina Salmon, and Michael Grubb, interrogates the contradictions between fossil lock-in through LNG import capacity and overcontracting, and policy-driven demand reduction. Here is a summary of the paper’s main findings.
By Yaroslav Melekh and Michael Grubb
Article | Business & Industry, Government & Politics
Article | Government & Politics
By Thomas Ferguson and Jie Chen
Video
Economics can either fuel conflict or pave the way to lasting peace, the choice is ours.
Featuring James K. Boyce
Working Paper | Technology & Innovation
We need a dual approach to AI: steer technology in the short term while building new systems for the long term.
By Anton Korinek and Joe Stiglitz
Working Paper | Energy, Environment
This paper examines in detail the interrelationships between the EU’s concerns, its energy policies, and the resulting challenges and uncertainties facing European gas through the rest of the decade, and beyond.
By Yaroslav Melekh, James Dixon, Katrina Salmon, and Michael Grubb
Working Paper | Business & Industry, Government & Politics, Laws
Welfare economists and moral philosophers have shown that the Consumer Welfare Standard is biased in favor of wealthy individuals and corporations—the very powers the antitrust law is supposed to regulate.
By Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush
The history of the political relations between Hitler and the NSDAP leadership and the German “coal industrialists” from 1926 to 1933
Working Paper | Environment, Macroeconomics
Why the E-DSGE Framework Is Not Fit for Purpose and What to Do About It
By Yannis Dafermos, Andrew McConnell, Maria Nikolaidi, Servaas Storm, and Boyan Yanovski
Working Paper | Business & Industry, Technology & Innovation
The decisions we make now about the governance of AI will have profound implications for the future of our economy and society.
By Anton Korinek and Jai Vipra
May 31, 2025
Webinars and Events
Four months of the Trump presidency have already changed the world as we knew it. How did we get here? What consequences have the tariffs had and will have? How will U.S.-European trade relations evolve? What about the confrontation with China?
Jul 14, 2025
Webinars and Events
The interdisciplinary nature of the conference offers a platform to connect theoretical insights with practical solutions, fostering meaningful dialogue and collaboration to address urgent climate and socio-economic issues. The conference will be the second annual event with the Centre of South Asian Studies - University of Cambridge.
Apr 10, 2025
Webinars and Events
with THOMAS FERGUSON, RESEARCH DIRECTOR, INET
Mar 31, 2025
Webinars and Events
The conference, which is part of our Academy’s ‘Future of Humankind’ initiative, will provide a global forum of discussion to scholars engaged in analytically understanding the evolution of world dynamics as a process involving a plurality of mechanisms, viewpoints and intersecting trajectories.
Mar 21, 2025
Webinars and Events
We invite doctoral students and early career researchers/assistant professors (within 7 years of their Ph.D.) to a two-day conference that aims to foster cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogues with attention to SDG goals for India.
Mar 17, 2025
Webinars and Events
The IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University, in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and its Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is organising a conference on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience in Agriculture: Strategies for Sustainable Development in South Asia
Mar 07, 2025
Apr 21, 2025
Apr 08, 2025
YSI projects are collaboratively organized by members of the community to explore topics in new economic thinking. Projects may be held virtually (discussions, webinars, reading groups) or in person (workshops, pre-conferences). Learn more about YSI here
