Video
The Case for a New Bretton Woods
How do we prepare for a world of constant shocks—climate disasters, financial crises, pandemics, conflict, and inequality?
Featuring Kevin Gallagher
Inflation persists not just because of spending or interest rates, but because underlying social conflicts over income, expectations, and power remain unresolved.
Video
The Case for a New Bretton Woods
How do we prepare for a world of constant shocks—climate disasters, financial crises, pandemics, conflict, and inequality?
Featuring Kevin Gallagher
Article | Government & Politics
U.S. Political System Is Bought, Not Broken. A New Party Won’t Fix the Basic Problem.
Why real reform in American politics won’t come from slogans, scandals, or new parties — but from breaking the grip of investor politics and rebuilding power from the ground up.
By Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen
Article | Government & Politics, Technology & Innovation
AI, Antitrust & Privacy: When More Competition Makes Things Worse
Without strong privacy laws and aligned incentives, increased AI competition worsens surveillance, manipulation, and disinformation—threatening privacy, autonomy, and democracy.
Article | Government & Politics, Technology & Innovation
Ex-CISA Official Warns: We’ve Gutted Cybersecurity—A Gift to Iran, China and Russia
Dr. David Mussington, cybersecurity expert with two decades of experience, reveals why the clock is ticking on U.S. vulnerabilities under Trump.
Working Paper | Inequality & Distribution, Macroeconomics
Working Paper | Government & Politics, Technology & Innovation
Article | History, Inequality & Distribution, Philosophy & Ethics
What’s Next for Capitalism — Reinvention or Authoritarian Rule?
Article | History, Inequality & Distribution, Philosophy & Ethics
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.
Article | Finance, Government & Politics, Trade
By Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm
Video
Understanding the forces shaping our digital future.
Featuring Rohinton Medhora
Working Paper | Inequality & Distribution, Macroeconomics
How inflationary inertia, driven by distributional conflict, disrupts the economy’s path to an effective demand equilibrium.
Working Paper | Government & Politics, Technology & Innovation
We typically view competition as a positive force that lowers prices, improves quality and service, and increases variety. However, competition can sometimes be toxic.
Working Paper | Development
Kalecki challenged the structuralist view by pointing to the internal social class barriers to development, and the need to assure supplies of basic wage goods in order to avoid inflationary pressures that could derail the development process.
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
Jul 24, 2025
Webinars and Events
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.
Jul 14, 2025
Webinars and Events
The urgency of the climate crisis cannot be overstated, particularly given its disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities in the Global South.
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?
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 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
Jul 15, 2025
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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