250 Results for “stiglitz”
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Ideology is Dead! Long Live Ideology!
Aug 12, 2019
Economists like to say they’re immune from ideological influence. Our research shows the opposite.
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Central Banks, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis
Jun 29, 2023
The tough policy choices ahead for confronting the climate crisis
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
Jun 9, 2022
Cambridge University’s professor of American History Gary Gerstle discusses his most recent book, about how the neoliberal order came about, why it is faltering, and the indeterminacy of what comes next.
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Rana Foroohar
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Economics in a Different Key
Jul 1, 2016
INET interviews Luigi Pasinetti
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A Time Bomb in Global Finance
Jan 12, 2023
A Bank for International Settlements study says 60+ trillion dollars of off-the-books currency swaps could be a profound, systematic risk. Rob Johnson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.
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John Ralston Saul
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The Vicious Cycle of Mass Incarceration and Racial Injustice
Jul 6, 2021
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
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Nelson Barbosa
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Time Bomb in Global Finance
Jan 4, 2023
A Bank for International Settlements study says 60+ trillion dollars of off-the-books currency swaps could be a profound, systematic risk. Robert Johnson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.
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Myths and Landmarks in US Economic History
Jul 19, 2021
Economic historian and INET board member Richard Vague, talks about his latest book, The Illustrated Business History of the United States, which reveals a number of misconceptions and myths about the development of the US economy
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India’s Leadership and Global Challenges of Climate and Finance
Oct 26, 2023
If we’re going to address environmental catastrophe, we need to support each other on a global scale. Rob Johnson checks in with Adair Turner about his work, and practical solutions to address the climate crisis.
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Michael Pettis
Jun 19, 2020
Michael Pettis, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, talks to Rob Johnson about how trade wars really are class wars and how nationalist conflict is shaping US-China relations and fracturing Europe.
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Anna Deavere Smith
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Jayati Ghosh
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Brian Barnier
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The Antidote to the Wall is the Bridge
Jan 6, 2022
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.
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The Rise and Fall of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class, part 2
Jul 2, 2021
Umass Lowell Economics professor William Lazonick, outlines the history of how government policy and economic conditions contributed to the rise and fall of a Black blue-collar middle class. Part 2 takes a closer look at the role of finance and stock buybacks and what can be done to reverse the trend towards growing inequality.
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How Digital Technology and the Pandemic will Accelerate Transformations
Mar 8, 2021
Economics Nobel laureate Michael Spence discusses the many changes that await us in the wake of digital technology developments and the pandemic, which are combining in unexpected ways
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Linear Relationship Between Money and Election Outcomes Continued in 2020
Feb 16, 2021
INET’s Research Director Thomas Ferguson discusses the latest analysis he and his colleagues have conducted of campaign spending in the 2020 election cycle. The result dispels the myth that money has lost significance and that Republicans were at a significant disadvantage.
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Robert Borosage: There Is No Going Back to Normalcy
Feb 1, 2021
The co-founder of the Campaign for America’s Future, Robert Borosage, discusses the many potential pitfalls the Biden administration must deal with, from a new cold war with China, to the persistence of market fundamentalism.
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Eisuke Sakakibara
Sep 17, 2020
Former Deputy Finance Minister of Japan, Eisuke Sakakibara, contrasts Japan’s and the US’s response to the pandemic and talks about the different roles and economic strategies of some of the world’s largest countries.
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What Can Sanders Do as Budget Chair?
Jan 20, 2021
As Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Bernie Sanders can force votes on Medicare for All and cuts to the military budget. He will face opposition from the GOP and within the Democratic Party. Rob Johnson was a Senior Economist for the Budget Committee and Chief Economist for the Senate Banking Committee. He joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
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It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”
Sep 11, 2020
Why freeing American households and businesses from crippling private debt would be a boon to the economy. Article reposted from DemocracyJournal.org.
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Michael Spence
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Michael Sandel
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Zach Carter
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The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
Oct 20, 2022
Financial Times columnist and author Rana Foroohar talks about her new book Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
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The Return of Asia in the 21st Century
Apr 14, 2022
Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Kishore Mahbubani, discusses his latest book, The Asian 21st Century, in which he relates US decline to the rise of plutocracy and Asia’s renewed rise - after having fallen behind in the last 200 years - to its growing sense of dynamism, optimism, and diversity. This is the 200th episode of the podcast Economics and Beyond with Rob Johnson.
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A New Vision for Economics Education
Sep 21, 2021
The education of the next generation of economists too often ignores the real crisis we face today: climate change, inequality, and financial instability. Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman seek to address this problem in their book, Economy Studies, which outlines a practical road map for effectively connecting pluralism of core academic material to real world events, values, and the great questions of our time.
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The Obscene Obstacles to Global Vaccine Distribution
Aug 2, 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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INET at the Trento Economics Festival: Values: Building a Better World for All
Jun 16, 2021
INET at the Trento Economics Festival 1: A dialogue between Mark Carney and William Janeway, coordinated by Robert Johnson Our world is full of fault lines—growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental problems and others like them stem from a common crisis in values.
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Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
May 20, 2021
Financial Times columnist and US editorial board chair Gillian Tett talks about her new book, Anthro-Vision, which makes the case for how anthropological intelligence can help us make better sense of the contemporary world.
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Can Biden Successfully Govern?
Feb 18, 2021
American Prospect editor Robert Kuttner talks about how the faith in Democracy and in the state have suffered tremendously over the past two decades, how it can be restored, and what impact this loss of faith will have on the Biden presidency
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Changing the Conversation on the Climate Emergency
Feb 22, 2021
David Fenton, the founder of the progressive PR firm Fenton Communications, takes a close look at what needs to be done to improve how we talk about the climate emergency so that everyone listens and acts accordingly
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Andrew Sheng
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Evan Osnos
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Yanis Varoufakis & Danae Stratou
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Arjun Jayadev & Achal Prabhala
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The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility
Nov 17, 2022
University of Bonn and Sciences Po economics professor Moritz Schularick talks to Rob about the soon-to-be-released book, Leveraged, which he edited based on papers from an INET-sponsored conference. The book takes a close look at what we have learned about the costs and causes of financial fragility since 2008.
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The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today
Sep 13, 2023
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank with a storied history, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.
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Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity
May 16, 2023
In honor of the just-announced Nobel Prize in Economics for Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, we re-post an Economics and Beyond podcast episode from last year, featuring Johnson, discussing Johnson and Acemoglu’s latest book, Power and Progress.
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The Long-Overdue Revolution in Economic Thinking
Mar 1, 2021
University of Texas economist James K. Galbraith engages in a wide-ranging discussion of the many ways in which conventional economics has failed us, ranging from how to manage the post-pandemic economy, the role of finance, to the problems of inequality and climate change.
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How We Are Going to Live Together Is Up for Grabs
Mar 17, 2022
Anand Giridharadas, writer and author of the book, Winners Take All, discusses the multiple crises we are currently facing, how they could provide an impetus for real change, and how US and global elites are failing to live up to the challenge.
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Water: The New Gold
Sep 7, 2021
The COVID pandemic highlighted the deepening water crisis. “Do we understand that over half the population of the world doesn’t have a place to wash their hands with soap and warm water?” says water warrior Maude Barlow.
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The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal
Feb 25, 2021
UMass Amherst professor and PERI Co-Director Robert Pollin discusses his latest book that he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, about the Global Green New Deal and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in addressing the climate crisis
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Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
Jun 24, 2021
Kenneth Cukier, senior editor at The Economist and co-author of the book Framers, talks about how mental models, or frames, enable humanity to find the best way through a forest of looming problems.
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Jeremy Lent
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George Akerlof: Economics’ Sins of Omission
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Feb 7, 2023