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Can Universities Survive Politics?
Universities have always been centers of learning—and centers of power.
Featuring William C. Kirby
What’s Next for Capitalism — Reinvention or Authoritarian Rule?
In Capitalism and Its Critics, New Yorker writer John Cassidy brings to life the figures who warned of monopoly power, inequality, environmental peril, and authoritarianism—forces still at work today. He discusses his book with Lynn Parramore.
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Article | Finance, Government & Politics, Trade
Tariff Turmoil and the Money Markets: Single Payer Insurance to the Rescue
In Treasury markets, there are no libertarians, only grateful recipients of single-payer insurance for ailing financial markets.
By Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm
Article | Technology & Innovation
Steering AI to Enhance Jobs and Prepare for Future Transformation
How to guide innovative AI efforts to increase labor demand and create better-paying jobs?
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Article | Government & Politics, Inequality & Distribution, Macroeconomics
Wage Stagnation and Populism: A Comment on David Brooks and Noah Smith
Working Paper | Technology & Innovation
Steering Technological Progress
By Anton Korinek and Joe Stiglitz
INET in Focus
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.
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The Economics of War & Peace
Economics can either fuel conflict or pave the way to lasting peace, the choice is ours.
Featuring James K. Boyce
Working Paper | Technology & Innovation
Steering Technological Progress
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
European Natural Gas through the 2020s: the Decade of Extremes, Contradictions and Continuing Uncertainties
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
Antitrust’s Normative Economic Theory Needs a Reboot
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
Macroeconomic Modeling in the Anthropocene
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
Concentrating Intelligence: Scaling and Market Structure in Artificial Intelligence
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
Jul 24, 2025
Webinars and Events
Monsoon School on Inequality 2025
The focus of this year’s monsoon school is on pluralistic approaches to research on inequality, bringing together perspectives from varied streams of economic thought. It will provide an interactive platform for advanced-level PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and scholars affiliated with Indian research institutes to engage with diverse concepts, debates, and methodologies related to inequality.
May 31, 2025
Webinars and Events
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?
Jul 14, 2025
Webinars and Events
2nd Edition of The Political Economy of Ecological Change and Economic Security in the Global South
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
Trump, Tariffs, and the World Crisis
with THOMAS FERGUSON, RESEARCH DIRECTOR, INET
Mar 31, 2025
Webinars and Events
Framing World Interdependence
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
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Prospects and Challenges for India
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.
Jun 16, 2025
Apr 21, 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