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Institute for New Economic Thinking grantee Hans-Joachim Voth talks about the crisis in Europe.

William White, chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee (EDRC) at the OECD in Paris

How can we get the financial sector back to serving its intended function?

Why didn’t central banks see the financial crisis coming?

Should China internationalize the RMB? Will it take the lead on sustainable development? Can it maintain growth and productivity?

Adam Posen, President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, discussing the lessons of macroeconomic stimulus provided by the recent histories of Japan and Great Britain.

Warren Mosler, president of the financial services firm Valance Company and one of the founders of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), speaks about what MMT tells us about economic policy. How can MMT help get the economy back on track?

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.”

Will Abenomics succeed in getting Japan’s economy back on the path to sustainable growth? Or is it doomed to fail?

Matheus Grasselli discusses how the use of advanced mathematics in economics enables innovative new thinking.

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?

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.

Piero Sraffa’s classic work Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities has been variously interpreted as a special case of modern neoclassical general equilibrium or a foundation stone for the revival of the classical tradition of Smith and Ricardo.

One of the fundamental ideas of modern economics — that people have rational expectations, an unbiased, statistically correct view of the future — is, in reality, a simple hypothesis.

Five years into the Great Recession, discussion and political fights continue about the right approach to international banking supervision. How to avert the next financial crisis or at the very least lessen its damage?