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  1. Working Paper

    Conference paper

    Toward an Intellectual History of Uncertainty

    By Angus Burgin

    Apr 2014

    Economists discussing the problem of radical uncertainty commonly invoke Frank Knight’s classic definition in Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, but only rarely venture to explore the broader contours of his argument.

  2. Working Paper

    Conference paper

    The Economics of Cyberwar

    By Steven Bellovin

    Apr 2014

    Cyberwar is very much in the news these days. It is tempting to try to understand the economics of such an activity, if only qualitatively. What effort is required? What can such attacks accomplish? What does this say, if anything,about the likelihood of cyberwar?

  3. Conference Session

    Cyber War, Cyber Space: National Security and Privacy in the Global Economy

    Featuring Steven Bellovin, Yvo Desmedt, Amir Herzberg, and Bart Preneel

    Apr 10, 2014 | 12:45—02:15

  4. Conference Session

    Innovation and Globalization: Playing Catch-up v. Pushing the Frontier

    Featuring Diego Comin, Lisa de Propris, Marjo Koivisto, and William Lazonick

    Apr 10, 2014 | 06:00—07:30

  5. Conference Session

    Integration, Currency Unions, and Balance of Payments

    Featuring Bill Mitchell, Peter Temin, and Martin Wolf

    Apr 10, 2014 | 09:00—10:45

  6. Conference Session

    Explorations in New Economic Thinking

    Featuring Laura DeNardis, John Knubley, and Nii Quaynor

    Apr 10, 2014 | 11:00—12:30

  7. Conference Session

    Pressures on Pensions

    Featuring Teresa Ghilarducci, Tim Jenkinson, Richard Ravitch, and William Robson

    Apr 10, 2014 | 07:00—08:30

  8. Conference Session

    The Economics of Radical Uncertainty

    Featuring Angus Burgin, Paul Ormerod, and Eric Weinstein

    Apr 10, 2014 | 11:00—12:30

  9. Working Paper

    Conference paper

    Profits Without Prosperity: How Stock Buybacks Manipulate the Market, and Leave Most Americans Worse Off

    By William Lazonick

    Apr 2014

    Five years after the end of the Great Recession, corporate profits are high and the stock market is booming. Yet most Americans are not sharing in the apparent prosperity.

  10. Working Paper

    Conference paper

    Who should do R and who should do D?

    By Diego Comin

    Apr 2014

    This article studies the reasons for the under-investment in research vs. development in the decentralized equilibrium and argues that this bias provides a micro-foundation for the government direct involvement in conducting applied research rather than just financing it.

  11. Video

    What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?

    Featuring Michael Sandel, Chrystia Freeland, and Rob Johnson

    Apr 10, 2014

    In recent decades, market values have crowded out non- market norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?

  12. Conference Session

    What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?

    Featuring Michael Sandel

    Apr 10, 2014 | 03:15—05:00

  13. Webinars and Events

    Human After All

    Plenary

    Apr 10–12, 2014

    The Institute for New Economic Thinking joined the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in holding its fifth Annual Conference from April 10 to April 12, 2014 in Toronto.

  14. Video

    Innovation & Financial Reform

    Featuring Adair Turner

    Apr 9, 2014

    Adair Turner at the Institute’s #HumanAfterAll conference in Toronto, CA (2014).

  15. Conference Session

    Innovation: To What Purpose?

    Featuring John Ralston Saul

    Apr 9, 2014 | 02:15—04:00