Currency Wars, Social Class, and the Republican Dilemma Over Medicaid
Faced with a shrinking list of options to trim the budget, Republicans are now eyeing Medicaid - but will that fly among Trump supporters?
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Article | Inequality & Distribution, Macroeconomics
Distributional and Macroeconomic Effects of Trump 2.0
The most likely outcome of the second Trump administration is a recession and an exacerbation of inequalities, and a further degradation of the living standards of working and middle-class Americans.
By Simon Grothe and Michalis Nikiforos
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The future of work is already here—but our social policies are stuck in the past.
Featuring Rohinton Medhora
Article | Business & Industry, Macroeconomics
What the Economy Is Really For — And Why Tariffs Miss the Point
The money to support well-paid American jobs exists—it’s just being hoarded at the top. Economist William Lazonick argues that this is not just unfair; it’s a failure of the whole economic system.
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Article | History
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Article | History
“Founders Would Be Horrified”: Renowned Historian Drops Truth-Bomb on American Revolution and Lessons for Today
Professor Marc Egnal of York University joins the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Lynn Parramore to explore why historians cling to an inaccurate and misleading narrative, and what we can learn from the real history about tyranny, checks and balances, imperialism — and resistance.
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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 | 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
A major factor in the decline of inflation is the simple fact that America’s workers were, in general, unable to raise their nominal wages in line with the rise in the cost of living
By Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm
Working Paper | Finance, Government & Politics, Health
Setting Pharmaceutical Drug Prices: What the Medicare Negotiators Need to Know About Innovation and Financialization
Medicare negotiators need to have a deep understanding - both theoretical and empirical - of the learning processes involved in developing a drug to negotiate a price that is fair.
By Öner Tulum and William Lazonick
Apr 10, 2025
Webinars and Events
Trump, Tariffs, and the World Crisis
with THOMAS FERGUSON, RESEARCH DIRECTOR, INET
Mar 31, 2025
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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
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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.
Mar 17, 2025
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Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience in Agriculture: Strategies for Sustainable Development in South Asia
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
Feb 24, 2025
Webinars and Events
Understanding and Addressing Emerging Inequalities in the 21st Century in South Asia
As the world grapples with rapid technological advancements, demographic shifts, environmental challenges, and governance transformations, new forms of inequality are emerging.
Mar 11, 2025
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INET-YSI Doctoral Scholars' Conference
Understanding India’s Northeast from Emerging Perspectives
Mar 07, 2025
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Apr 08, 2025
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