466 Videos
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A Society Designed to Incentivize Criminal Behavior at the Highest Level
Aug 11, 2021
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.
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The Obscene Obstacles to Global Vaccine Distribution
Aug 6, 2021
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.
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America Vs. Everyone
Jul 7, 2021
Is China really the enemy, or are we just creating self-fulfilling prophecies?
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The Death of Neoliberalism
Jun 30, 2021
Market fetishists may not know it yet, but it’s over.
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Calculating the Cost of COVID
Jun 23, 2021
Inflation? Expanding digital currencies? What’s next in this brave new world?
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Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
Jun 16, 2021
You have the power to reframe and reimagine the 21st century.
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The Green New Deal vs. The Economy
Jun 9, 2021
How do we move fiscal policy from part of the problem to part of the solution?
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Prisoner of Love: Intersectional Political Economy
Jun 2, 2021
Why do patriarchal systems survive? What is missing in how economics relates to the concepts of identity and power?
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Life after Capitalism
May 26, 2021
How do we break free of the cycle of restrictive thinking which has plagued economics, and the world?
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The Privacy Paradox
May 12, 2021
Can big data strengthen global inclusivity and trust?
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How Lifting Intellectual Property Restrictions Could Help World Vaccinate 60% of Population by 2022
Apr 29, 2021
As new coronavirus cases surge across India, calls are growing louder for wealthy countries to loosen intellectual property restrictions
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Demystifying China’s Economic Miracle
Apr 21, 2021
How does the Chinese economy actually work?
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Tax the Rich
Apr 14, 2021
“Patriotic people pay taxes.”
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The Identity War
Apr 7, 2021
Your identity is being used against you. Can economics help?
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This Is Your Wake-Up Call
Mar 31, 2021
The world has changed, and we need to adapt. Andrew Sheng calls for a more human economics to drive us toward a sustainable future.
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The Master Algorithm
Mar 16, 2021
What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
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America Has No Problems
Mar 10, 2021
…That Five Years of Full Employment Wouldn’t Fix
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Black Women's 'Double Gap' in Wages
Feb 3, 2021
Black women are forfeiting $50 billion/year in the US due to the combined gender and racial wage gap.
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Prison for the Poor
Jan 27, 2021
Rethinking Crime and Inequality with Stratification Economics
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Dr Anthony Fauci: ‘We Will End This Outbreak' | The Bottom Line
Dec 31, 2020
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.
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Understanding LGBTQ Employment Discrimination
Dec 23, 2020
“If you want to make the world a more equal place, you need to understand the tools.”
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Fighting Neoliberalism with Keynes & Minsky
Dec 16, 2020
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.
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What is Feminist Economics?
Nov 18, 2020
“All of us, if we get old enough, need to be taken care of.”
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Has Economic Theory Failed?
Oct 28, 2020
George Soros explains why there is no mathematical equation that can define humanity.
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Can Economics Save the Environment?
Oct 7, 2020
We need to get smarter about how we think about climate change and its impacts.
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One Nation, Under Finance
Sep 23, 2020
Access to finance was supposed to reduce inequality, and make us all better off. Why hasn’t that happened?
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Globalization's Discontents
Sep 9, 2020
The promise of globalization is built on a lie, designed to spread risk while concentrating reward.
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College Now
Sep 2, 2020
Why are we creating an education shortage?
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Students Fear Ideas Not Viruses
Aug 26, 2020
“Good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure.”
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The Future of the Safety Net
Aug 19, 2020
A lot has changed since our taxes and benefits were designed, and the consequences of delaying reform are rising.
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Economics & Beyond Podcast
Jul 22, 2020
Rob Johnson is not your average economist, and this is not your average economics podcast.
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Should We Remain Hopeful About Globalization?
Jul 15, 2020
A closer look at unique structural conditions is essential
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The Dangerous Ideological Bias of Economists
Jun 24, 2020
“We do not publish papers about our own profession.” – Top Five Journal
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Innovation Needs Inventors
Jun 17, 2020
By not addressing inclusivity, we are losing entire generations of new minds.
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What is Work?
Jun 10, 2020
What counts as work and what doesn’t?
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Has China Won?
May 20, 2020
The geopolitical showdown between the United States and China is both inevitable, and avoidable.
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How Populists Use Economics to Exploit Crisis
May 13, 2020
MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Emil Verner discusses his research into credit markets, and the role of economics in the rise of populism.
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Gender Equality Works for Everyone.
May 6, 2020
If a tree falls outside of the market sector, does it make a sound?
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Why We Need Solidarity Economics
Apr 22, 2020
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.
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One Dollar. One Vote.
Apr 15, 2020
Economist Emmanuel Saez explains how inequality is destroying society.
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Join Us in Working Together Online
Apr 1, 2020
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.
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Why Data Is Like Fire
Mar 11, 2020
Dr. Chen Long, Director of the Luohan Academy, explains why the digital revolution is so different from the industrial revolution
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Measuring the Danger of Segregation
Mar 4, 2020
Trevon Logan discusses the impact of structural racism in health and economics
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Polanyi on Polanyi
Feb 26, 2020
In this series Polanyi reflects on an extraordinary life, and the extraordinary legacy of her family.
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Saving Retirement
Feb 19, 2020
Is America facing a retirement crisis?
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Venture Capital in the 21st Century
Jan 29, 2020
Explore economic growth and development through technological innovation with the renowned investor and scholar
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Inequality 101
Jan 29, 2020
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.
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How The Troika Runs Europe
Jan 22, 2020
The European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF are the continent’s austerity police
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What Happens When Economics Doesn’t Reflect the Real World?
Jan 15, 2020
Anwar Shaikh talks about the shortcomings of neoclassical economics and alternative frameworks
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Banning Buybacks
Dec 4, 2019
Stock buybacks are giveaways for greedy investors at the expense of everyone else.
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Between Rational and Irrational
Nov 27, 2019
Columbia University’s Richard Robb talks about his new book on human behavior
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The Hidden Costs of Healthcare
Nov 20, 2019
INET experts discuss how financialization has driven up costs of healthcare—and how we can stop it.
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Don't Be Evil. Rana Foroohar on Big Tech.
Nov 13, 2019
The Financial Times correspondent on the libertarian streak in Silicon Valley
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The Perils of Over-Optimistic Borrowing
Nov 6, 2019
Yueran Ma discusses her work with INET’s Private Debt Initiative
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Learn the Language of Power
Oct 30, 2019
Economists make what we do seem complicated, says Ha-Joon Chang. It’s not.
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A Hereditary Meritocracy
Oct 23, 2019
The University of Chicago’s Raghuram Rajan explains how inequalities in the education system lock in a hereditary hierarchy of success
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Measuring Economic Democracy
Oct 9, 2019
GDP doesn’t tell the whole story—Robert McMaster explains the Economic Democracy Index
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In Defense of Economic Theory
Oct 2, 2019
Wade Hands argues that empiricism without theory is insufficient
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Economics for People
Sep 11, 2019
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.
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How & How NOT to Do Economics
Sep 11, 2019
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?
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Is History Important?
Sep 4, 2019
An animated look at economic history with Robert Skidelsky
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How Liberals Normalized Conservative Ideas
Aug 28, 2019
The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum explains the role Democratic presidents, from Kennedy to Obama, in moving economic policy to the right
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How Can We Track Bank Risk?
Aug 21, 2019
Risky lending took down the global economy in 2008. Tracking it now is a vital job for economists, says Juliane Begenau
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Why We Need a Multidisciplinary Economics
Aug 14, 2019
Economics needs to better incorporate other social sciences
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Change in the Economics Profession Can Come From the Outside
Aug 7, 2019
Progressive movements can and should push for pluralism in economics
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Why the Dismal Science Cares About Happiness
Jul 31, 2019
Economics is often thought of as emotion-less, but Daniel Benjamin argues for happiness as a vital indicator
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Are We Ready to Give Up Autonomy to AI?
Jul 24, 2019
Artificial intelligence promises to make our lives easier. But is the cost losing some of our humanity?
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Puerto Rico’s Crisis Began Before Hurricane Maria
Jul 17, 2019
Economist Marie Mora discusses the deep economic crisis that has afflicted Puerto Rico for years
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How the Stock Market Drives Wealth Inequality
Jul 10, 2019
When the stock market grows faster than the housing market, the gains of the top 1% outpace those of the middle class
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A Brief History of Doom
Jun 26, 2019
Richard Vague and Rob Johnson discuss the role of excessive lending in causing financial crises throughout history
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Could Household Debt Cause the Next Recession?
Jun 19, 2019
Steven Pressman says in the next few years, we could see rising interest rates bring about a recession
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Relearning Recessions
Jun 12, 2019
Matthew Baron challenges conventional myths about booms and busts
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How to Show Up for Your Own Presentation
Jun 5, 2019
Veteran writer and public speaker Lynn Parramore gives you three keys to sharing your research with an audience. Quell the fear, banish the boredom, and light the fire!
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The Perils of Treating Schools Like Corporations
May 29, 2019
Treating education like a market is all the rage. But it hurts students, and our society.
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Why We Need to Think of AI as a Platform
May 22, 2019
Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be a job killer—if we use it right
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Why We Need Inclusive Prosperity
May 15, 2019
The implications of rising inequality are massive. Economists need to tackle it together.
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Does the Gig Economy Expose Workers to Sexual Harassment?
May 8, 2019
When workers are classified as independent contractors instead of employees, they fall into a hole not covered by many labor protections
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Lance Taylor on Growth, Distribution, and the Future of Capitalism
May 1, 2019
Lance Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research, delivers the annual Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism.
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Why We Must Resist Conventional Economic Wisdom
Apr 17, 2019
Dani Rodrik says that when ideas become conventional wisdom, we are blind to their limitations
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Why Corporate-Led Globalization is Unsustainable
Apr 10, 2019
Globalization’s elite winners get lower taxes while its losers pay more
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When Innovation Meets Authoritarianism
Apr 3, 2019
China is the staging ground for an economic experiment: Can innovation succeed when it’s directed by an authoritarian stat
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Why We Should Decriminalize Sex Work
Mar 27, 2019
Stigmatizing and relegating an activity to the shadows doesn’t improve anyone’s welfare
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The Many Costs of Social Media Addiction
Mar 23, 2019
“Founding father” of virtual reality explores the ways digital platforms change economic relationships Computer scientist Jaron Lanier explains the uneasy relationship between an analog world and a corporate digital infrastructure.
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The Future of Work Is Going to Be More Human
Mar 20, 2019
As automation takes on more routine tasks, work will become more about creativity, ethics, and empathy
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Joe Stiglitz: The Challenges Facing China
Mar 6, 2019
The Nobel laureate economist discusses how an activist government is needed to tackle problems like climate change
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Behavioral Economics: The Next Generation
Feb 27, 2019
To understand behavior and choice, we need to borrow from not just cognitive science but also sociology.
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Financial Regulation Shouldn’t Be Hard—Here’s What We Need to Make It Work
Feb 20, 2019
We can land planes safely at crowded airports, yet we can’t manage to make our financial system safe. Why?
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Is Free Money the Future of the Safety Net?
Feb 6, 2019
Universal Basic Income is gaining in popularity, among socialists and libertarians alike. But when it comes to implementation, the devil is in the details.
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The Best Way to Measure Inequality
Jan 30, 2019
Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have insisted that tax records are better for measuring inequality than income surveys. They’re wrong.
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A Growth Slowdown is Coming
Jan 23, 2019
U.S. GDP accounting underestimates intangible capital, overstates financial capital, and is all but oblivious to the erosion of human and social capital.
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John Bogle: How Wall Street Lost Sight of Ordinary Americans
Jan 17, 2019
From tax loopholes to high-risk speculation, Vanguard’s founder reflects on the state of Wall Street and the change needed to make finance work for ordinary people.
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Does Inflation Targeting Make the Poor Poorer?
Jan 16, 2019
When central banks set inflation targets, they effectively redistribute income from wage earners to bondholders
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The New Feudalism
Jan 9, 2019
Under the guise of “philanthropy,” business elites have an increasing grip on society
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The New Economic Giants
Dec 26, 2018
Eisuke Sakakibara: China and India will become titans on the world stage
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Can Markets Corrupt Social Values?
Dec 14, 2018
Judge Richard Posner and Michael Sandel debate the moral limits of markets
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Why Economics Needs a Moral Dimension
Dec 7, 2018
Rob Johnson and Michael Sandel discuss the limits of rational choice
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The Limits of the “Rational Economic Man”
Nov 30, 2018
Greg Mankiw says there should be a market for kidneys, but not for paying drug addicts to get sterilized.
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To Be a Good Citizen, You Need Not Be Rich
Nov 23, 2018
LSE Director Minouche Shafik says that for democracy to work, we must keep the market out of certain domains
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A Market for Votes?
Nov 16, 2018
Michael Sandel and Joe Stiglitz discuss why selling votes is bad for democracy, and how individual self-interest doesn’t always serve the public good
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Money Matters
Nov 7, 2018
Neoclassical economics dismisses the role of money and the state in the economy. Keynes scholar Robert Skidlesky says it’s time for a re-evaluation.