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  1. Webinars and Events

    What Money Can't Buy Live

    Discussion

    Apr 23, 2018

    To celebrate the release of our new series “What Money Can’t Buy” join Harvard University Professor Michael Sandel and INET for a live conversation exploring the role of money and morals in today’s world.

  2. Article

    BRICS to Play a Leading Role in Driving Future Global Economic Growth

    By Terry McKinley

    Apr 20, 2018

    But the five countries must still support greater investment in other emerging and developing economies

  3. Webinars and Events

    Kerner Commission Public Forum Race and Inequality in Trump’s America

    Conference

    Apr 20, 2018

    Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka, CEO of the Campaign for Black Male Achievement Shawn Dove, Pulitzer-prize winning author Heather Ann Thompson and more discuss race and inequality in Trump’s America Friday, April 20th 5-7pm.

  4. Working Paper

    Commentary

    Analysing Wealth Inequality: A Conceptual Reflection

    By Pirmin Fessler and Martin Schürz

    Apr 2018

    As early as 1900, German sociologist Georg Simmel identified a central feature of wealth in his seminal work The Philosophy of Money. Simmel writes about the superadditum of wealth for the rich, namely that a great fortune is encircled by innumerable possibilities of use, as though by an astral body.

  5. YSI Event

    1. African Economies in Transition

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    3. Revisiting and Confronting the Challenges of African Development

  7. YSI Event

    4. Rethinking Cooperatives and the African Agenda

  8. YSI Event

    5. The Current Challenges of a Complex Reality

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    2. New Approaches to African Economic History

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    6. A Critical Engagement with Financial Stability in Africa

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    10. Perspectives on the Challenges for Sustainable Development in Africa

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    9. Rethinking Political Economy: the State & Pluralist Economics Teaching

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    7. The Gender Division of Labour; Diversity and Change

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    8. Inequality in Africa

  15. Article

    Why Americans’ Hatred of Taxes Is Fake News

    By Daniel Chomsky

    Apr 13, 2018

    Newspapers consistently underplay wide public support for higher taxes on businesses and the wealthy