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In this episode of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with Robert Johnson, about the political economy, inequality, and the failings of our technocratic institutions.

YSI Philosophy of Economics working group is organising a workshop preceding the INEM conference.

An examination of some little-known ways nation states and central banks prop up megabanks

Why we should worry about job quality, not quantity—or robot overlords

New research shows that access to elite colleges varies by parents’ income—reinforcing inequality across generations 

When an economic model fails, it is reality—and the people living in it—who pay the bills while the model lives on, unscathed.

Davis looks at the financialization of non-financial corporations—i.e., firms that traditionally produce goods and services and invest in machinery, buildings and technology rather than trade in financial assets—and asks what it means that they’re taking on large financial investments.

The same angst that Americans and Europeans have about the future of jobs is an order of magnitude higher in Asia.

Robinson explains how natural experiments are done and why they’re useful. He also explains distribution of power and development of state play critical roles in successful economies.

Back-room deals on corporate tax reform won’t increase growth

Economists’ infamous failure at predicting the recent financial crisis has brought new impetus to studies on diversity in the economics profession. Such studies have underlined how diversity plays a prominent role in enriching economic analyses.

The prevailing stock market ideology enriches value extractors, not value creators

If standard economic theory can’t explain a traffic jam, how can it cope with crises?

The YSI Latin America Working Group is hosting a workshop at the United Nations ECLAC Summer School on Latin American economies.

As the Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow noted in 1987, computers are “everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Since then, the so-called productivity paradox has become ever more striking. Automation has eliminated many jobs. Robots and artificial intelligence now seem to promise (or threaten) yet more radical change. Yet productivity growth has slowed across the advanced economies; in Britain, labor is no more productive today than it was in 2007.