Archive
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News
Richard Eskow Interviews Lynn Parramore
Apr 24, 2018
“The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow” talks to Lynn Parramore about her INET piece on public education.
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Webinars and Events
What Money Can't Buy Live
DiscussionApr 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.
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Article
BRICS to Play a Leading Role in Driving Future Global Economic Growth
Apr 20, 2018
But the five countries must still support greater investment in other emerging and developing economies
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Webinars and Events
Kerner Commission Public Forum Race and Inequality in Trump’s America
ConferenceApr 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.
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Working Paper
CommentaryAnalysing Wealth Inequality: A Conceptual Reflection
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.
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Article
Why Americans’ Hatred of Taxes Is Fake News
Apr 13, 2018
Newspapers consistently underplay wide public support for higher taxes on businesses and the wealthy
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Working Paper
Working paperA Distorting Mirror: Major Media Coverage of Americans’ Tax Policy Preferences
Apr 2018
Over the last four decades, Americans have consistently told pollsters that they favor higher taxes on business and the wealthy, even as tax policy has moved sharply in the other direction.
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Collection
The Growing BRICS Economies
A series on the changing economic dynamics of the BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
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Article
The Growing BRICS Economies: An INET Series
Apr 12, 2018
The BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—play a crucial and growing role in the world economy. Sanjay Reddy kicks off our series exploring shifting social and economic dynamics within these countries, and what they mean for the global economy.
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Video
Michael Sandel on INET's What Money Can't Buy Video Series
Apr 12, 2018
Ahead of the series launch, Harvard’s Michael Sandel discusses the moral limits of markets with Rob Johnson
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YSI Event
Finance in the 21st Century
YSI workshop @ Rethinking Finance Oslo
YSI
WorkshopApr 12–14, 2018
The INET YSI Financial Stability working group (WG) is organising a workshop as part of the Rethinking Finance Conference in Oslo at the Norwegian Business School BI on April 14th, 2018.
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Video
How Unregulated Finance is Killing Democracy
Apr 11, 2018
The twin threats of right-wing populism and unencumbered financial capitalism pose a crisis for democracy across the world, argues Robert Kuttner in his new book, Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
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Article
The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools
Apr 6, 2018
Training first-world children for a third-world life
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Article
Samuel Bowles Remembers Martin Luther King
Apr 5, 2018
The economist reflects back on the racial justice leader who showed him the limits of his academic training.
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Article
The Hidden Network That Propelled Civil Rights in America
Apr 5, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders relied on black entrepreneurs to make their work possible