Archive
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Article
The SDR is the Catalyst for China’s Currency Internationalization
Dec 7, 2015
There is a deeper story to be told about the inclusion of the Renminbi.
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Video
Connecting American Foreign Policy to Economic Policy
Dec 7, 2015
How might a reimagined American foreign policy both bolster the domestic economy and help build a 21st-century global economy that works for everyone?
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Article
Global Tax Dodging Just One Part of Pfizer’s Corrupt Business Model
Dec 3, 2015
Why are we paying for corporate behavior that crushes innovation, cheats taxpayers, cost jobs, and heightens inequality?
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Article
Replication and Transparency in Economic Research
Dec 3, 2015
In 2003, McCullough and Vinod wrote, “Research that cannot be replicated is not science, and cannot be trusted either as part of the profession’s accumulated body of knowledge or as a basis for policy.”(1)
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Article
RMB in SDR, Now What?
Dec 2, 2015
“Governments propose, markets dispose,” as Charles Kindleberger liked to say.
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Video
Do Economists Understand the Economy?
Dec 1, 2015
Lance Taylor explains how missing the big picture is too common in the field.
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Article
The American Dual Economy: Race, Globalization and the Politics of Exclusion
Nov 30, 2015
The United States economy has come apart, with the rich getting richer and workers’ incomes not advancing at all.
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News
Adair Turner Oxford Book Launch
Nov 30, 2015
Lord Adair Turner visited the Oxford Martin Lecture Theatre on Tuesday 24 November for a well-attended INET Oxford event launching his latest book ‘Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance’ (Princeton University Press).
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesLearning, Expectations, and the Financial Instability Hypothesis
Nov 2015
This paper analyzes what assumptions on formation of expectations are consistent with Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis (FIH) and its corollaries.
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Article
Will Spain Reject Austerity?
Nov 20, 2015
Spain’s future path for economic policy will soon be decided.
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Video
Inclusive Growth: Making It Happen
Nov 20, 2015
Exploring inequality, gender, and the North-South divide.
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Article
Externalities and Public Goods: Theory OR Society?
Nov 19, 2015
How much does the standard theory of externalities and public goods really say?
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe American Dual Economy: Race, Globalization, and the Politics of Exclusion
Nov 2015
I describe the American economy in the twenty-first century as a dual economy in the spirit of W. Arthur Lewis.
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Greek “Rescue”: Where Did the Money Go?
Nov 2015
This paper analyses the financial assistance provided to Greece in the first two rescue packages granted by the Troika (European Union, European Central Bank and IMF).
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Article
What Can We Really Know About the Future of Stock Prices?
Nov 17, 2015
A gap between theory and reality has haunted economists.