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

Behavior genetics is the study of the relationship between genetic variation and psychological traits. Turkheimer (2000) proposed “Three Laws of Behavior Genetics” based on empirical regularities observed in studies of twins and other kinships. On the basis of molecular studies that have measured DNA variation directly, we propose a Fourth Law of Behavior Genetics: “A typical human behavioral trait is associated with very many genetic variants, each of which accounts for a very small percentage of the behavioral variability.”

What do you get when you put two of the most well known and most widely cited economists in the world, both Nobel laureates, on stage together? A healthy dose of economic reality.

This research project provides the mathematics for a second marginal revolution enabling the natural modeling of heterogeneous agents with unstable beliefs, fully dynamic preferences, and allowances for an increased level of self-inconsistency.

Forget the G7, Watch the C5

Since September 2011, the Swiss National Bank has held a floor of 1.20 francs per euro.

Ahead of the series launch, Harvard’s Michael Sandel discusses the moral limits of markets with Rob Johnson

An individual fish reduces the danger to itself by swimming as close as possible to the center of the school. That is how schools hold together.

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

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?

Paper presented at Bretton Woods Conference

As we prepare to digest the implications of this week’s ECB move, it seems worthwhile to take a look at the monetary economics of fixed exchange rates.

A discussion on China’s economic management at the beginning of the Trump era featuring Leland R. Miller, Co-founder and CEO of the China Beige Book.

A discussion on Brexit with Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics.

Professor Marlene Kim provided a riveting picture, via her personal family history of the exploitation of the Asian-American working-class in California. She challenged the invisibility of Asian-Americans in discussions of race in America, and also focused on the double burden of discrimination borne by women of color.

The media has failed ask basic questions about the economic thinking — and business record — of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, says Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, author of The Making of Donald Trump.

‘Tis the season to celebrate gift giving. But for big banks Santa Claus comes all the time, in the form of handsomely wrapped subsidies and subtly packaged regulatory nuances worth more more gold than the wildest dreams of the Three Wise Men.

The logic of deep global capitalist crises needs to be incorporated centrally into an understanding of the changes in the within-country inequality levels. I present a theoretical framework that incorporates two levels of political economic processes. First,global capitalist crises lead to the creation of an institutional structure or a regime in the capitalist centers that influences inequality in these core countries and in the periphery. Second the class configuration in the non-core countries - a set of institutional arrangements that can be termed local political economy - also plays a key role in determining inequality outcomes.

This research project formulates a new model of bounded rationality, based on the idea that agents will keep a simple, or “sparse,” model of the world.

There’s no turning back from humanity’s move to high-density living, says Ed Glaeser. The task of the century will be making cities more liveable.

What happens to Main Street when Wall Street fails? Japan expert David Weinstein squeezes a unique data set to answer this question.

This research project follows freed slaves from when they first applied for their land under the Southern Homestead Act until 1900 to learn how access to free land influenced their economic progress.

This research project develops, estimates, calibrates, and deploys a new class of stock flow consistent macroeconomic models to try to understand Ireland’s macroeconomic collapse since 2007.

A week ago, Mark Carney, chairman of the Financial Stability Board, warned of emerging global consequences of the escalating eurozone crisis.

Exit Strategies and the New Normal

Atlantic CityLab features Shannon Monnat’s research on the opioid crisis

To commemorate the 150th episode of our video series, “New Economic Thinking,” we are highlighting some of the most compelling content from the series here.

Economist Olugbenga Ajilore shows the high cost of the American government’s arming of local police with military weapons, which has exacerbated lethal use of force against black communities

Black Lives Matter movement co-founder Alicia Garza, addressing the Institute’s Detroit conference on the economics of race, placed the turmoil created by the 2016 election in the context of a backlash against the gains made by social movements challenging racial and social injustice. She argued that those movements now need, more than ever, “to show up for one another” at a local level to protect those gains

Lance Taylor explains how missing the big picture is too common in the field.

Over the past two hundred years, poor countries have become faster at adopting the technologies of rich countries. So why is it, the economist asks, that poor countries have remained poor, by and large?

Did you know that, around 1920, Cleveland, Ohio, had a technological cutting edge not unlike Silicon Valley today? You probably didn’t. Margaret Levenstein tells the story.

Excellence and Conformity in Economics: how to set the incentives straight

Marketwatch cites our interview with Jim Chanos on Bitcoin

CNBC cites our interview with Jim Chanos on Bitcoin

The Huffington Post features INET research on stock buybacks

In a piece for The Intercept, Noam Chomsky cites Tom Ferguson’s paper on the influence of money in US congressional elections.

Forbes cites our interview with Jim Chanos on Bitcoin

“The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow” talks to Lynn Parramore about her INET piece on public education.

“Blindly” Engaging in Global Supply Chains Can Erode Developing Nations’ Economic Power

INET grantee William Lazonick’s research on drug pricing is featured in a New York Times op-ed

The Future of Macroeconomics Institute for New Economic Thinking, via Naked Capitalism 2-2-21]

NPR’s All Things Considered features Michael Greenberger’s INET Working Paper on how banks evade credit default swaps regulation

A poem seems to be an almost perfect metaphor for the modern corporate world.

Just as the agricultural share of employment has fallen from 40% in the 1920s to less than 2% of the workforce in Europe today, manufacturing’s share of employment will fall to less than 5% of employment.

Will China correct this imbalance by allowing the RMB to appreciate? Or will it dump dollars onto forex markets?

ft. INET’s Perry Mehrling

When Felix Salmon looks at the global equities market he sees a world of free-for-all electronic warfare that likely would be more recognizable to Isaac Asimov than Milton Friedman.

We are in the midst of another global transformation, but this time we might have the tools to get it right.

Today’s Financial Times article: ECB: trick or Trichet (Dec 2)

The G20 must address the problem of sovereign debt.

Adair Lord Turner’s powerful comments about the global economy’s addiction to private debt are continuing to reverberate around the world.

Collective Action When Market Forces Overwhelm the Nation State

The Economist profiles INET’s Hong Kong conference