About

We are economists and thinkers from a range of disciplines who challenge conventional wisdom and advance ideas to better serve society.

Research

We develop research that challenges economic orthodoxy and serves society.

Articles

Commentary, analysis, interviews, and research summaries by INET-affiliated writers.

Video

Interviews, presentations and video series with provocative economic thinkers, public figures and students.

Podcast

Economics and Beyond with Rob Johnson, a podcast featuring interviews with some of the world’s most important thinkers, artists, and activists about the pressing issues of our time. The podcast is also available on all major podcasting platforms, such as Apple, Spotify, Google, and Podbean.

Education

Video series and courses for students and educators interested in exploring new economic thinking.

Events

To foster new economic thinking, we host convenings that gather together a diverse community of thinkers from different fields, countries, and schools of thought.

YSI

Through the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), INET provides support to students, young professionals, or others who embrace new and critical ways of thinking about the economy. YSI fosters conversation among those who wish to engage with new economic thinking and connects young scholars to the Institute’s vast network of economists.

Topics

Browse all INET content organized by topic

Content Tagging & Categorization

This document provides guidance for labeling and tagging content according to its topics, places, methods, and other details. Tagging content enables it to automatically populate in relevant places across the site, and build deeper connections between issues.

Topics

Required on most content types: events, conference sessions, partnerships, expert profiles, papers, blog articles, videos, news, research groups, grants, courses, e-books, and curricular materials. Managed in Craft under Categories > Topics.

  • Tag content only to the secondary topics shown here (e.g., “Imperfect Knowledge.”) Parent topics (e.g., “Microeconomics & Social Choice) will be populated automatically based on content tagged to their children.
  • You can tag a piece of content with as many topics as needed. These tags will define which categories on the site content can be found in, so make sure to tag carefully—missing a major topic will make a piece of content less accessible, but lots of tangential tags will make results less relevant for users.
  • When retagging existing content, use this cheat sheet to map old tags to their new labels.

Parent topic Child topic
Microeconomics
  • Utility Theory
  • Imperfect Knowledge
  • Social Choice Theory
  • International Trade
Macroeconomics & Finance
  • Financial Crises
  • Government Finance
  • International Finance
  • Macroeconomic Theory
  • Money & Banking
History
  • Economic History
  • History of Economic Thought
Political Economy & Development
  • Development Economics
  • Governance
  • Institutions, Policy & Politics
Inequality & Distribution
  • Income & Wealth
  • Employment & Job Structure
  • Human Capital & Economic Opportunity
Innovation
  • Laws & Patents
  • Public & Private Institutions
  • Social Environment
  • Technology
Environment
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainable Growth
Teaching Economics
  • Curriculum Development
  • Reintroducing Economic Theory
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  • Accounting
  • Behavioral Economics & Psychology
  • Complexity Economics
  • Economics & Theology
  • Humanities
  • Math, Statistics & Physical Science
  • Philosophy
  • Race, Gender & Society

Regions

Not required; use when relevant. When content is either about a region or about a country within a region, there is a region category to add these relevant tags. When tagging to a country, it will automatically associate with that country’s parent region. You can also tag only to the region level if, for example, an article about North American trade is about North America as a whole—not a particular country. Like topics, each region and country will require a name and short description.

The following countries are established in the CMS:

  • North America
  • South America
  • Europe
  • Middle East
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Australia

Countries

Countries should be added as content are developed about them (e.g., if an author writes a blog post about the economic impact of Russia’s involvement in Ukraine, then a country listing should be added for Ukraine before publishing the post). The Institute plans to include the following countries as a starting point:

  • United States
  • China
  • Japan
  • Germany
  • France
  • United Kingdom
  • Brazil
  • Russia
  • Italy
  • India
  • Canada
  • Australia
  • Spain
  • Mexico
  • South Korea
  • Indonesia
  • Turkey
  • Netherlands
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Switzerland
  • Sweden
  • Iran
  • Nigeria
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Belgium
  • Argentina
  • Austria
  • Thailand
  • South Africa
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Venezuela
  • Colombia
  • Denmark
  • Malaysia
  • Hong Kong
  • Chile
  • Singapore
  • Egypt
  • Philippines
  • Greece
  • Finland
  • Israel
  • Pakistan
  • Portugal
  • Ireland
  • Algeria
  • Peru
  • Kazakhstan
  • Czech Republic
  • Qatar
  • Estonia
  • New Zealand
  • Bangladesh

Other tags and labels

Method of inquiry

These labels are optional. Use them primarily on research papers or articles.

  • Behavioral
  • Database
  • Econometric
  • Experimental
  • Statistics

Open tags

These tags are optional. The initial set of tags we have identified is listed below. If you identify a need for a new open tag, talk with Nick Alpha about adding it to the system.

  • Heterodox
  • Orthodox
  • Theoretical
  • Applied
  • YSI (e.g. can be applied to a paper, event, news, or research group)
  • Youth outreach
  • General audience (to be used to call attention to content that delivers a broader overview)