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From feudal land rights to intellectual property in the modern era, lawyers have been battling over capital for centuries. Typically leveraging social resources to generate and protect private wealth.
Featuring Katharina Pistor
How Inequality Leads to Industrial Feudalism
In a society where asset ownership is incredibly unequal, social mobility becomes severely diminished
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Article | Culture
Researchers studying beasts that pass on resources and advantages to offspring have raised the old question of whether humans are destined to live in stratified conditions. Your view may depend on your relative position.
Podcasts
How Davos Man Devours the World
Peter Goodman, New York Times correspondent and author of the just-published book, Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World, talks to Rob about how inequality is not inevitable, but has been engineered through the political process by selling us a false idea of what is possible.
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Working Paper | Inequality & Distribution
Industrial Feudalism and Wealth Inequalities
By Hanna Szymborska and Jan Toporowski
Working Paper | Business & Industry
By Margherita Russo, Fabrizio Alboni, Jorge Carreto Sanginés, Manlio De Domenico, Giuseppe Mangioni, Simone Righi, and Annamaria Simonazzi
INET in Focus
Article | Government & Politics
Fateful Collision: NATO’s Drive to the East Versus Russia’s Sphere of Influence
How did this dire situation come about?
By James Kurth
Article | Business & Industry
Automotive Value Chains in a Brave New World
By Margherita Russo, Fabrizio Alboni, Jorge Carreto Sanginés, Manlio De Domenico, Giuseppe Mangioni, Simone Righi, and Annamaria Simonazzi
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Our Own Worst Enemy
Tom Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, columnist for USA Today, and contributing writer at The Atlantic, discusses his new book, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy, and how a decline in civic virtue has generated a dangerous illiberalism.
Featuring Tom Nichols and Rob Johnson
In a society where asset ownership is incredibly unequal, social mobility become severely diminished
By Hanna Szymborska and Jan Toporowski
Working Paper | Business & Industry
The Changing Shape of the World Automobile Industry: A Multilayer Network Analysis of International Trade in Components and Parts
The pandemic and electrification are shaking the foundations of the auto industry
By Margherita Russo, Fabrizio Alboni, Jorge Carreto Sanginés, Manlio De Domenico, Giuseppe Mangioni, Simone Righi, and Annamaria Simonazzi
Working Paper | Human Behavior, Imperfect Knowledge
Asset Prices Under Knightian Uncertainty
A tractable formalization of the Knightian uncertainty faced by an economist and market participants in an intertemporal asset-price model.
By Roman Frydman, Søren Johansen, Anders Rahbek, and Morten Tabor
Working Paper | Environment
Can Panel Data Methodologies Determine the Impact of Climate Change on Economic Growth?
Some cautionary remarks
Working Paper | Macroeconomics
Central Banks Caught Between Market Liquidity and Fiscal Disciplining: A Money View Perspective on Collateral Policy
By helping abate the liquidity crisis, incidences of banks becoming insolvent are reduced, and hence moral hazard in its severest form is minimized.
By Jakob Vestergaard and Daniela Gabor
Working Paper | Government & Politics
The Knife Edge Election of 2020: American Politics Between Washington, Kabul, and Weimar
Covid and BLM protests were key to Biden’s victory
By Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen
Dec 10, 2021
Webinars and Events
Law, Economics & Policy Conference (LEPC) 4.3 -The Path for India's Climate Transition
The 4th Law, Economics & Policy Conference (LEPC) is a virtual, multi-capsule conference series that aims to bring together legal, economic and public policy thinkers to consider a variety of real world issues in India in a holistic manner.
Dec 01, 2021
Webinars and Events
The Paralysis From Above: COP26 and Beyond for the Developing World
For several weeks, representatives of governments across the globe gathered in Glasgow to discuss plans for climate mitigation and adaptation. But the meetings were dominated by representatives of the world’s most advanced economies, often to the detriment of the places where the majority of the world’s population lives: the developing world.
Oct 12, 2021
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INET Live | Summit on Climate and U.S. China Relations
The pandemic has caused havoc to the world’s health and economy, worsening inequality and disparities already disrupted by geopolitical rivalry, climate change, financialization and technology. Health, wealth and self are entangled in anger over rising inequality and temperatures.
Sep 28, 2021
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INET Live | Just Transition and the Transition to Justice
Scientists have been sounding the alarm for decades about the severe global impact that rising temperatures will have on the environment, economies, and health outcomes, and ultimately humanity’s long-term survival. With disaster after disaster stacking up, the time for action is now.
Sep 21, 2021
Webinars and Events
INET Live | Climate Debates
Scientists have been sounding the alarm for decades about the severe global impact that rising temperatures will have on the environment, economies, health outcomes, and ultimately humanity’s long-term survival. Yet little has been done.
Aug 12, 2021
Webinars and Events
Law, Economics & Policy Conference (LEPC) 4.2 - Justice Delivery: New Frontiers
The 4th Law, Economics & Policy Conference (LEPC) is a virtual, multi-capsule conference series that aims to bring together legal, economic and public policy thinkers to consider a variety of real world issues in India in a holistic manner.