152 Results for “CIGI Canada”
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Podcasts
The Rise and Fall of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class, part 1
Jul 1, 2021
Umass Lowell Economics professor William Lazonick, outlines the history of how government and economic conditions favored the rise of a Black blue-collar middle class from the 1960”s to the 1970’s, and how shifts in policy and in the economy caused its unmaking from the 1980’s onwards.
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Michael Pettis
Jun 19, 2020
Michael Pettis, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, talks to Rob Johnson about how trade wars really are class wars and how nationalist conflict is shaping US-China relations and fracturing Europe.
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Article
Fateful Collision: NATO’s Drive to the East Versus Russia’s Sphere of Influence
Jan 7, 2022
How did this dire situation come about?
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Podcasts
Chen Long: The Privacy Paradox
May 13, 2021
Can big data strengthen global inclusivity and trust? Information exchange has historically been the most powerful tool at humanity’s disposal, so what makes data different? Dr. Long Chen (Luohan Academy) discusses his latest report “Understanding Big Data: Data Calculus In The Digital Era” which is available for download at https://www.luohanacademy.com/researc…
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Louis Kuijs
Sep 3, 2020
Louis Kuijs, Head of Asia Economics at Oxford Economics, based in Hong Kong, talks about China’s current economic strategy in the context of the pandemic and how China relates to the US, to the rest of the world, and to Hong Kong, in its effort to expand its influence
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How to Control the Control of Nature?
May 17, 2021
Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The New Yorker, discusses her latest book, Under a White Sky, which explores how technological solutions don’t always lead where we think they will, especially in the face of the climate crisis.
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Podcasts
Digital Transformation, Opportunity and Social Sustainability
Jun 21, 2021
INET at the Trento Economics Festival 3: A dialogue between Michael Spence and Robert Johnson The governance of technology is a new challenge. The Recovery Plans is encouraging the digital transformation of our economies. An acceleration of technological change is bound to deeply affect labor markets and income distribution. While labor-market adaptation is likely to stave off permanent high unemployment, it cannot be counted on to prevent a sharp rise in inequality.
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Podcasts
We Need a Resilient Society
Sep 30, 2021
Princeton economics professor Markus Brunnermeier discusses his recently released book, The Resilient Society, which argues that in crisis-prone situations societal resilience is a crucial component for averting outright disaster and outlines how we might achieve that resilience.
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Podcasts
The Obscene Obstacles to Global Vaccine Distribution
Aug 2, 2021
Lori Wallach, of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and Jayati Ghosh, economics professor at UMass Amherst, discuss how first world countries are protecting pharma companies’ exorbitant profits, at the expense of vaccinating people living in the Global South and thereby also endangering everyone in the world.
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The Master Algorithm
Mar 22, 2021
Tim O’Reilly, the founder of O’Reilly Media and author of the book, What’s the Future?, talks about how new technology can either be considered a scapegoat or a mirror and what this means for our future.
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Arjun Jayadev & Achal Prabhala
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Podcasts
Chris Hedges: How Republicans, Democrats, and the Media Have Weakened US Democracy
Jan 19, 2021
Renowned journalist and author Chris Hedges talks about the many ways traditional media, digital media, and the two political parties have worked to prevent progressive movements and give rise to the growth of the extreme right
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Podcast
Rana Foroohar
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Article
Rethinking Macroeconomic Theory Before the Next Crisis
Sep 23, 2016
While many countries throughout the world have faced severe financial crises over the last decades, and while the Japanese stagnation and the 1997 Asian financial crisis did induce some additional interest for the introduction of banking and finance in macroeconomic theory, it is only with the advent of the US subprime financial crisis that macroeconomic and monetary theories put forward by mainstream economists have started to be questioned.
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Podcasts
The Future of Economics
Mar 25, 2021
Tiger Gao, brilliant young host of the Princeton University podcast, Policy Punchline, interviews Rob Johnson about INET’s aims, the function of economics in academia, and the relationship between Silicon Valley culture and the latest technologies, among other things.