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Economist Marie Mora discusses the deep economic crisis that has afflicted Puerto Rico for years

When the stock market grows faster than the housing market, the gains of the top 1% outpace those of the middle class

Richard Vague and Rob Johnson discuss the role of excessive lending in causing financial crises throughout history

Steven Pressman says in the next few years, we could see rising interest rates bring about a recession

Matthew Baron challenges conventional myths about booms and busts

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!

Treating education like a market is all the rage. But it hurts students, and our society.

Artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be a job killer—if we use it right

The implications of rising inequality are massive. Economists need to tackle it together.

When workers are classified as independent contractors instead of employees, they fall into a hole not covered by many labor protections

Lance Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research, delivers the annual Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism.

Dani Rodrik says that when ideas become conventional wisdom, we are blind to their limitations

Globalization’s elite winners get lower taxes while its losers pay more

China is the staging ground for an economic experiment: Can innovation succeed when it’s directed by an authoritarian stat

Stigmatizing and relegating an activity to the shadows doesn’t improve anyone’s welfare

“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.

As automation takes on more routine tasks, work will become more about creativity, ethics, and empathy

The Nobel laureate economist discusses how an activist government is needed to tackle problems like climate change

To understand behavior and choice, we need to borrow from not just cognitive science but also sociology.

We can land planes safely at crowded airports, yet we can’t manage to make our financial system safe. Why?

Universal Basic Income is gaining in popularity, among socialists and libertarians alike. But when it comes to implementation, the devil is in the details.

Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have insisted that tax records are better for measuring inequality than income surveys. They’re wrong.

U.S. GDP accounting underestimates intangible capital, overstates financial capital, and is all but oblivious to the erosion of human and social capital.

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.

When central banks set inflation targets, they effectively redistribute income from wage earners to bondholders

Under the guise of “philanthropy,” business elites have an increasing grip on society

Eisuke Sakakibara: China and India will become titans on the world stage

Judge Richard Posner and Michael Sandel debate the moral limits of markets

Rob Johnson and Michael Sandel discuss the limits of rational choice

Greg Mankiw says there should be a market for kidneys, but not for paying drug addicts to get sterilized.

LSE Director Minouche Shafik says that for democracy to work, we must keep the market out of certain domains

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

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.

Right-wing news sources have stopped playing by the rules of journalism

The Rise of China and the Future of WorkArtificial intelligence could replace routine jobs but allow us to “pursue dreams”

Donald Trump, democracy, and how the wealthy crush the American Dream

Investigating the history of economic thought fuels innovative thinking 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to replace routine jobs, says Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. But done right, that process could allow us to “pursue dreams, spend time with our loved ones and find out why we exist as humans”

“We don’t look after each other at all,” says Jeffrey Sachs on America today

Steve Keen: “What an education in economics does is make you into a zealot

Trump’s surprise win areas looked like a drug overdose map

George Soros and Rob Johnson Discuss the Causes and Consequences of the 2008 Financial Crisis

In 2008 a global financial meltdown was just barely contained. But Adam Tooze says that the crisis of confidence has had long aftershocks

10 years later, Nobel laureate George Akerlof says the walls within economics need to come down

Winnie Byanyima shows how we all suffer when corporations evade taxes

Behind sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll were moral values, says music industry veteran Danny Goldberg

Watch music industry veteran Shep Gordon and INET President Rob Johnson talk about how reality TV, celebrity chefs, and surfing explain American politics and economy today.

Dennis Kelleher of Better Markets explains how we can stop the financial industry from gaming Washington

Gay men earn 20% less than straight men, but gay women earn up to 20% more than straight women. Why?

James Galbraith says academic economics is in need of radical reform

Journalist Steven Brill discusses how the U.S. lost sight of the common good

13 million people looking for living wage work is not a “full employment” economy

Matias Vernengo explains how economic crises reveal the nakedness of neoliberal policies

Fred Block says capitalism is not an unchanging monolith—which means we can make it better

Michael Greenberger says unregulated credit default swaps could take down the economy—and taxpayers—again

In a complex world, we’ll experience more “black swans”, and the things that standard economic models assumed away will matter much more.

The economist had to learn moral philosophy before anything else—an underpinning that’s still helpful for today’s students

Economist James K. Boyce argues that the distribution of carbon tax revenue is just as important as the price itself

Bill Janeway explains why “efficiency is the enemy of innovation,” and how venture capitalists and the state advance technological change

What Money Can’t Buy is a six part series exploring the role of money and morals in today’s world.

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

The twin threats of right-wing populism and unencumbered financial capitalism pose a crisis for democracy across the world, argues Robert Kuttner in his new book, Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?

Steve Fazzari argues that stimulating demand is the key to jump-starting stagnant economies

Bill discusses symbolism of the cross and lynching tree with theologian James Cone.

Cross posted from Thursday, February 28, 2008’s broadcast of Democracy Now!

Mainstream economists have ignored private debt to our peril

Economics can be creative, it can be rigorous, it can be relevant.

The assumptions economists make in their models have implications not only for policymaking and choosing what data we collect, but also for the very definition of work, says Professor Maria Floro of American University. 

Mariana Mazzucato argues that the idea that entrepreneurship is confined to the private sector is wrong.

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

Ed Pavlić discusses the role of music in communicating suffering and resistance in the African-American experience

Nina Banks assesses the legacy of the first African-American economist in the United States

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.

How did globalization create such discontent in developed and developing countries alike? Nobel laureate and INET grantee Joseph Stiglitz explains in this 150th episode of our “New Economic Thinking” video series.

“The stories we tell ourselves about the world are a map of the world as we see it. And if we want to change the world, we have to change the story first.”

Nicola Sturgeon covers a range of topics including how economists’ work relates to policymaking, the financial crisis and the dangers of groupthink, how dissatisfaction with stagnating wages and rising inequality played into political shocks like Brexit, the legacy of Adam Smith, why new economic thinking is so important, and what her government is doing to foster and apply it. 

As the old lines continue to blur, what does inequality mean in the modern global economy? And, how does the economy need to evolve to address these changes?

Several founding CGET members announce the ambitious project and respond to questions from the press.

Examining the past is essential to understanding the present

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

Rather than continue to narrow the field, economists need to ask what they’re missing

Engaging in music, literature and the arts is essential for understanding context and human behavior—which economists so often miss

Xavier Gabaix argues that public policies should prioritize alleviating deprivation at the bottom over narrowing the rich-poor gap 

Personal connections are key to understanding concentrations of wealth and power

Why we should worry about job quality, not quantity—or robot overlords

Davis looks at the financialization of non-financial corporations—i.e., firms that traditionally produce goods and services and invest in machinery, buildings and technology rather than trade in financial assets—and asks what it means that they’re taking on large financial investments.

Robinson explains how natural experiments are done and why they’re useful. He also explains distribution of power and development of state play critical roles in successful economies.

If standard economic theory can’t explain a traffic jam, how can it cope with crises?

Professor Ghilarducci describes the roadblocks to securing retirement and retirement plans beyond the 401k.

Mason doesn’t think teaching contending economic theories is effective, and sees the objective of introductory economics courses as teaching students basic tools to understand economic terminology and standard relationship between cause and effect.

Naomi Klein discusses her new book, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need.

Economics is not, nor can it be, value-free.

Ocean expert Peter Neill says the watery depths hold solutions to earth’s most pressing challenges

How austerity policies and microfinance can bankrupt rather than empower women. Professor Girón discusses why microfinance cannot replace development banks.

A breakup of the Euro will be too difficult and costly for member countries.

Professor Dutt discusses how group identity is key to addressing inequality and how inequality can disrupt group identity.

How rationalization, marketization, and globalization characterize the U.S. economy during the past 50 years, and how the behavior of companies and fate of American workers have changed during this process.

Along the entire “innovation chain” — from research and development, to production and commercialization — government and private sectors have very different roles to play.

In a recent interview at the INET offices in New York, Anwar Shaikh provided a background to the work and his life in this quest.

Pursuing equality while growing the economy requires reframing social spending as a form of investment.