Archive
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Video
Wealth and Power - China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
Jul 15, 2013
Orville Schell, Director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, discussing his new book, “Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty First Century.”
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Article
Should China Deregulate Finance?
Jul 11, 2013
Is China is “too big to fail.”?
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Article
Why Austerity Theory is the Economist's Atomic Bomb
Jul 9, 2013
Economic theories are powerful things, to be used and misused. Those who write economic theory and do economic policy need to be aware of the consequences of what they are doing.
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Video
The Future of Japan and Abenomics
Jul 8, 2013
Will Abenomics succeed in getting Japan’s economy back on the path to sustainable growth? Or is it doomed to fail?
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Article
You Didn’t Build That: The Entrepreneurial State
Jul 8, 2013
A review of The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, the new book by Mariana Mazzucato
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Webinars and Events
Aziz Premji Summer School 2013
WorkshopJul 4–11, 2013
Between July 5th and 12th, the second annual summer school in development economics, jointly sponsored by Azim Premji University and the Institute for New Economic Thinking, was held in Bangalore, India.
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Video
How Advanced Mathematics Can Support New Economic Thinking
Jul 2, 2013
Matheus Grasselli discusses how the use of advanced mathematics in economics enables innovative new thinking.
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News
Interlinkages and Systemic Risk: Institute-sponsored Conference in Italy on July 4-5
Jul 2, 2013
The Institute have organized a Workshop on “Interlinkages and Systemic Risk” in Ancona, Italy that will take place on July 4th and 5th.
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Working Paper
Grantee paperFrom Green Users to Green Voters
Jun 2013
We estimate the effect of the diffusion of photovoltaic (PV) systems on the fraction of votes obtained by the German Green Party.
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Article
Dirk Bezemer - Debt: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Jun 26, 2013
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Video
Why We Need To Rethink Economics
Jun 25, 2013
In this short interview, Institute co-founder George Soros tackles the question at the heart of the Institute’s mission: What’s wrong with economics and what can we do to change it?
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Article
Thirteen Ways to Split a Cake*
Jun 19, 2013
Axiomatic bargaining is presented in MWG in the context of welfare economics (Ch. 22), the aim being the formulation of reasonable criteria for dividing gains resulting from cooperative endeavors (the “joint surplus”). It is further presented as an application of cooperative game theory, in which an arbitrator distributes the joint surplus in a manner that reflects “fairly” the bargaining strength of the different agents (although we could conceive of a situation where the parties are bargaining without an external party). If bargaining fails, the outcome is the parties’ own fallback positions (the threat point, or status quo).
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Article
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Jun 12, 2013
is the public sector really sclerotic and conservative in contrast with a dynamic and innovative private sector?
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Article
On the Link between Inequality, Credit, and Macroeconomic Crises
Jun 12, 2013
To what extant do existing mainstream models properly address issues such as heterogeneity and interactions, which are considered central ingredients to understand economic crises as emergent, endogenous phenomena.
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Video
Playing with the History of Economics
Jun 10, 2013
How to become a historian of economic thought? Members of the profession gather just once a year at the annual conference of the History of Economic Society but otherwise are dispersed in universities and archives all around the world.