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Columbia University’s renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs talks about the lessons he has learned from consulting with governments around the world, about how global problems, such as the war in Ukraine, will only be solved via efforts to understand the other side, never through force.

Corporate responsibility needs to evolve if businesses are going to rebuild trust and provide real value for society.

Over the last four decades, the US economy has done quite well for the top 1%, but it has been stagnant for most Americans. This was not an accident, nor the natural workings of the market and certainly not an inevitability. US policies have been deliberately structured since 1980 to redistribute income upwards. In other words, the system has been rigged.

Climate change is already here, and we are on a path towards catastrophic global warming. Governments have failed to curb carbon emissions, and fossil fuel production continues to increase. This is not merely a political failure; it is also a failure of economic analysis.

It’s not as simple as orthodox vs. heterodox.

Nobody likes to be in debt, but we owe even more to interest itself.

As a discipline rooted in exceptionalism and capitalist values, is economics capable of comprehending socialism?

This law is my law, this law is your law…

Should the government regulate personal behavior, or are the irrational choices of people actually reasonable?

How do we make economic development work for everyone?

Professor Glenn Hubbard, professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, talks about his just-released book, “The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake,” and how society and policymakers can help those who are left behind in the wake of today’s competitive world.

From feudal land rights to intellectual property in the modern era, lawyers have been battling over capital for centuries. Typically leveraging social resources to generate and protect private wealth.

Tom Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, columnist for USA Today, and contributing writer at The Atlantic, discusses his new book, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy, and how a decline in civic virtue has generated a dangerous illiberalism.

Yuen Yuen Ang, political science professor at the University of Michigan and author of the book, China’s Gilded Age, argues that the US and China have more in common than we usually think and that it makes more sense to see the conflict as a clash of gilded ages instead of a clash of civilizations.

How systemic racism of the past continues to haunt the present.

How innovation ought to be guided if it is to be successful in addressing our most pressing problems.

Graciela Chichilnisky has a plan to do exactly that.

The education of the next generation of economists too often ignores the real crisis we face today: climate change, inequality, and financial instability.

Political economist, author, and public speaker Ann Pettifor talks about her latest book, The Case for a Green New Deal, which not only lays out the urgency for such a deal, but also proposes a roadmap for both national and global financial reform to make it possible.

From LBJ to the present, the federal government has knowingly continued to expand the US fossil economy, not passively but as a major active player, endangering the future of young people.

A story spanning thousands of years, there is far more to China’s market reformation than many Western scholars might have you believe.

We have certainly been testing the resilience of democracy, but are we paying attention to the lessons?

Princeton economics professor Markus Brunnermeier discusses his recently released book, The Resilient Society, which argues that in crisis-prone situations societal resilience is a crucial component for averting outright disaster and outlines how we might achieve that resilience. SHOW MORE

Geoff Mann, professor of geography at Simon Fraser University and co-author of the book, Climate Leviathan, discusses the authoritarian dangers ahead, as the world tried to cope with climate change, and how all institutions, including central banking, need to evolve so they address the problem adequately.

The economy is not gender neutral, but actually relies on gender imbalances to function and grow.

Adam Tooze discusses his new book with Rob Johnson

Gisele Huff, education policy specialist and president of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity, along with john a. powell, director of UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute, talk about the motivations and process behind the soon-to-be-released report, “Convening on Automation, Opportunity, and Belonging: Vision and Foundations for a Better Society.”

Economics has many flaws, yet few are as broadly oppressive as its illusions about gender.

Isabella Weber, assistant professor of economics at UMass Amherst, discusses her new book on how China managed its transition from central planning to markets

If we save education, can we save humanity?

The Locus and Focus of Speculation

MIT economic historian Peter Temin discusses parts of his forthcoming book, focusing on the history of mass incarceration of uneducated Blacks and how it has created a permanent class of poor Black Americans

Andre Perry, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the book, Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Properties in America’s Black Cities, discusses the ongoing problem of how real estate dynamics continue to maintain racial injustice in cities across United States, and how we need a “reparative culture” to address the problem.

Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project and author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, talks about the many ways in which the US economic system has become rigged to favor the richest.

Lori Wallach, of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and Jayati Ghosh, economics professor at UMass Amherst, discuss how first world countries are protecting pharma companies’ exorbitant profits, at the expense of vaccinating people living in the Global South and thereby also endangering everyone in the world.

Is China really the enemy, or are we just creating self-fulfilling prophecies?

Market fetishists may not know it yet, but it’s over.

Inflation? Expanding digital currencies? What’s next in this brave new world?

You have the power to reframe and reimagine the 21st century.

How do we move fiscal policy from part of the problem to part of the solution?

Why do patriarchal systems survive? What is missing in how economics relates to the concepts of identity and power?

How do we break free of the cycle of restrictive thinking which has plagued economics, and the world?

Can big data strengthen global inclusivity and trust?

As new coronavirus cases surge across India, calls are growing louder for wealthy countries to loosen intellectual property restrictions

How does the Chinese economy actually work?

“Patriotic people pay taxes.”

Your identity is being used against you. Can economics help?

The world has changed, and we need to adapt. Andrew Sheng calls for a more human economics to drive us toward a sustainable future.

What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us

…That Five Years of Full Employment Wouldn’t Fix

Black women are forfeiting $50 billion/year in the US due to the combined gender and racial wage gap.

Rethinking Crime and Inequality with Stratification Economics

Dr. Anthony Fauci tells host Steve Clemons that the United States can go back to “normal” in the autumn, which starts in September 2021, if 70-85 percent of Americans get vaccinated by the summer.

“If you want to make the world a more equal place, you need to understand the tools.”

Riccardo Bellofiore explains how managerial capitalism of the post-war era entered into a crisis of profitability in the 1970s, and subsequently metamorphized into a new stage, where the role of banks changed, households became net borrowers and businesses net lenders.

“All of us, if we get old enough, need to be taken care of.”

George Soros explains why there is no mathematical equation that can define humanity.

We need to get smarter about how we think about climate change and its impacts.

Access to finance was supposed to reduce inequality, and make us all better off. Why hasn’t that happened?

The promise of globalization is built on a lie, designed to spread risk while concentrating reward.

Why are we creating an education shortage?

“Good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure.”

A lot has changed since our taxes and benefits were designed, and the consequences of delaying reform are rising.

Rob Johnson is not your average economist, and this is not your average economics podcast.

A closer look at unique structural conditions is essential

“We do not publish papers about our own profession.” – Top Five Journal

By not addressing inclusivity, we are losing entire generations of new minds.

What counts as work and what doesn’t?

The geopolitical showdown between the United States and China is both inevitable, and avoidable.

MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Emil Verner discusses his research into credit markets, and the role of economics in the rise of populism.

If a tree falls outside of the market sector, does it make a sound?

Economists have gone to great lengths to write humans out of economics, pushing self-interest and generally providing two choices—faith in markets or the state.

Economist Emmanuel Saez explains how inequality is destroying society.

Quarantine or not, it can be hard to stay connected, but INET’s Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is here for this generation’s new economic thinkers.

Dr. Chen Long, Director of the Luohan Academy, explains why the digital revolution is so different from the industrial revolution

Trevon Logan discusses the impact of structural racism in health and economics

In this series Polanyi reflects on an extraordinary life, and the extraordinary legacy of her family.

Is America facing a retirement crisis?

Explore economic growth and development through technological innovation with the renowned investor and scholar

Inequality, in many ways, may be the biggest question of our times. And yet it is a topic that is still underexplored in conventional economics curricula.

The European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF are the continent’s austerity police

Anwar Shaikh talks about the shortcomings of neoclassical economics and alternative frameworks

Stock buybacks are giveaways for greedy investors at the expense of everyone else.

Columbia University’s Richard Robb talks about his new book on human behavior

INET experts discuss how financialization has driven up costs of healthcare—and how we can stop it.

The Financial Times correspondent on the libertarian streak in Silicon Valley

Yueran Ma discusses her work with INET’s Private Debt Initiative

Economists make what we do seem complicated, says Ha-Joon Chang. It’s not.

The University of Chicago’s Raghuram Rajan explains how inequalities in the education system lock in a hereditary hierarchy of success

GDP doesn’t tell the whole story—Robert McMaster explains the Economic Democracy Index

Wade Hands argues that empiricism without theory is insufficient

Economics has long been the domain of the ivory tower, where specialized language and opaque theorems make it inaccessible to most people. That’s a problem.

What is economics for? What is it about? How should it be done? How can it be of use to us? How is it connected to morals and politics?

An animated look at economic history with Robert Skidelsky

The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum explains the role Democratic presidents, from Kennedy to Obama, in moving economic policy to the right

Risky lending took down the global economy in 2008. Tracking it now is a vital job for economists, says Juliane Begenau

Economics needs to better incorporate other social sciences

Progressive movements can and should push for pluralism in economics

Economics is often thought of as emotion-less, but Daniel Benjamin argues for happiness as a vital indicator

Artificial intelligence promises to make our lives easier. But is the cost losing some of our humanity?