420 Results for “inflation”
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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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Robert Borosage: There Is No Going Back to Normalcy
Feb 1, 2021
The co-founder of the Campaign for America’s Future, Robert Borosage, discusses the many potential pitfalls the Biden administration must deal with, from a new cold war with China, to the persistence of market fundamentalism.
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Gaël Giraud
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The Economics of Ecological Sustainability
Aug 16, 2021
Stanislav Shmelev, the director of Environment Europe Foundation in Oxford, discusses the many dimensions we need to consider when preparing our cities, businesses, and economies to the demands of ecological sustainability.
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Podcasts
Life After Capitalism
Jun 3, 2021
Rob Johnson talks with Tim Jackson about his new book, “Post Growth: Life after Capitalism,” and how we might break free of the cycle of restrictive thinking which has plagued economics, and the world.
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Can Biden Successfully Govern?
Feb 18, 2021
American Prospect editor Robert Kuttner talks about how the faith in Democracy and in the state have suffered tremendously over the past two decades, how it can be restored, and what impact this loss of faith will have on the Biden presidency
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Podcasts
What the West Can and Cannot Learn from China
Feb 8, 2021
Rodney Jones, a long-time Asia analyst, colleague of Rob Johnson’s, and currently Principal of Wigram Capital Advisors in New Zealand, discusses how China and other Pacific Rim countries succeeded in containing the Covid-19 pandemic and what this means for the West’s rivalry with China
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Arjun Jayadev & Achal Prabhala
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William Overholt
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Podcasts
The Golden Age of Fraud in Finance
Feb 23, 2023
Jim Chanos, the president and founder of Kynikos Associates and well-known investment manager talks to Rob about the post-pandemic financial system, which has become more steeped in a casino culture than it has been in a very long time, and whether China’s financial situation serves as an example or as a warning.
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News
INET in India (February 2024)
Feb 14, 2024
The media coverage of the INET team’s February 2024 visit to India. Prof. Michael Spence, Chair of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET), along with INET Governing Board Chair Dr. Rohinton Medhora, and INET President Dr. Rob Johnson, took part in this visit.
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Podcasts
William Overholt
Jun 15, 2020
William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, talks to Rob Johnson about how China expanded its power over Hong Kong, and the state of US-China relations.
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Podcasts
Dean Baker
Sep 28, 2020
Dean Baker, senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks about how geopolitical and economic tensions between the US and China benefit powerful elite sectors in the US, but are bad for working people.
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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.
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Article
Democratic Reform at a Time of Dire Troubles
Nov 27, 2023
What sort of effective democratic political system does the United States want and need?