467 Videos
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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.
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The Rise of Fake News
Nov 2, 2018
Right-wing news sources have stopped playing by the rules of journalism
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The Rise of China and the Future of Work
Oct 29, 2018
The Rise of China and the Future of WorkArtificial intelligence could replace routine jobs but allow us to “pursue dreams”
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Can America Survive the Rule of a “Stupified Plutocracy”?
Oct 24, 2018
Donald Trump, democracy, and how the wealthy crush the American Dream
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New Economic Thinking Needs Old Ideas
Oct 17, 2018
Investigating the history of economic thought fuels innovative thinking
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Can AI Free Humans from ‘Routine’ Work?
Oct 10, 2018
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”
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The End of American Exceptionalism
Oct 3, 2018
“We don’t look after each other at all,” says Jeffrey Sachs on America today
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How Economics Became a Cult
Sep 26, 2018
Steve Keen: “What an education in economics does is make you into a zealot
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How Despair Fueled Trump
Sep 19, 2018
Trump’s surprise win areas looked like a drug overdose map
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George Soros: 10 Years After the Crash
Sep 15, 2018
George Soros and Rob Johnson Discuss the Causes and Consequences of the 2008 Financial Crisis
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The Economy’s Cuban Missile Crisis
Sep 12, 2018
In 2008 a global financial meltdown was just barely contained. But Adam Tooze says that the crisis of confidence has had long aftershocks
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Why Economists Failed to Predict the Financial Crisis
Sep 5, 2018
10 years later, Nobel laureate George Akerlof says the walls within economics need to come down
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Global Inequality is a Threat to Democracy
Aug 29, 2018
Winnie Byanyima shows how we all suffer when corporations evade taxes
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What Economists Can Learn from Hippies
Aug 22, 2018
Behind sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll were moral values, says music industry veteran Danny Goldberg
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How Artists Can Make Social Change
Aug 15, 2018
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.
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Wall Street Is Better at Gambling Than Finance
Aug 8, 2018
Dennis Kelleher of Better Markets explains how we can stop the financial industry from gaming Washington
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The Gay Wage Penalty—and Premium
Aug 1, 2018
Gay men earn 20% less than straight men, but gay women earn up to 20% more than straight women. Why?
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Glasnost and Perestroika in Economics
Jul 25, 2018
James Galbraith says academic economics is in need of radical reform
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When Meritocracy Breeds Greed
Jul 18, 2018
Journalist Steven Brill discusses how the U.S. lost sight of the common good
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Why We Need a Federal Jobs Guarantee
Jul 11, 2018
13 million people looking for living wage work is not a “full employment” economy
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Don’t Let a Crisis Go to Waste
Jul 3, 2018
Matias Vernengo explains how economic crises reveal the nakedness of neoliberal policies
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We Can—And Must—Reform Capitalism
Jun 27, 2018
Fred Block says capitalism is not an unchanging monolith—which means we can make it better
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Another Financial Crisis Could Be Coming
Jun 20, 2018
Michael Greenberger says unregulated credit default swaps could take down the economy—and taxpayers—again
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Making Sense of Globalization in the 21st Century
Jun 13, 2018
In a complex world, we’ll experience more “black swans”, and the things that standard economic models assumed away will matter much more.
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Teaching Economics the Adam Smith Way
Jun 6, 2018
The economist had to learn moral philosophy before anything else—an underpinning that’s still helpful for today’s students
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What Role Should Economists Play in Climate Policy?
May 30, 2018
Economist James K. Boyce argues that the distribution of carbon tax revenue is just as important as the price itself
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How Government Drives Innovation
May 25, 2018
Bill Janeway explains why “efficiency is the enemy of innovation,” and how venture capitalists and the state advance technological change
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What Money Can't Buy
May 23, 2018
What Money Can’t Buy is a six part series exploring the role of money and morals in today’s world.
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Michael Sandel on INET's What Money Can't Buy Video Series
Apr 12, 2018
Ahead of the series launch, Harvard’s Michael Sandel discusses the moral limits of markets with Rob Johnson
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How Unregulated Finance is Killing Democracy
Apr 11, 2018
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?
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Are We Destined for a Slow Growth Future?
Apr 5, 2018
Steve Fazzari argues that stimulating demand is the key to jump-starting stagnant economies
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree (James Hal Cone and Bill Moyers)
Apr 4, 2018
Bill discusses symbolism of the cross and lynching tree with theologian James Cone.
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RIP Vincent G. Harding, Historian Who Co-Wrote MLK’s “Beyond Vietnam” Speech
Apr 4, 2018
Cross posted from Thursday, February 28, 2008’s broadcast of Democracy Now!
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The Debt We Don't Talk About
Mar 28, 2018
Mainstream economists have ignored private debt to our peril
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This Is INET
Mar 21, 2018
Economics can be creative, it can be rigorous, it can be relevant.
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The Male-centric Biases of Economic Models
Mar 15, 2018
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.
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The Government as an Entrepreneur
Mar 7, 2018
Mariana Mazzucato argues that the idea that entrepreneurship is confined to the private sector is wrong.
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How America Turned Its Police Into an Army
Feb 28, 2018
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
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How Music Helped James Baldwin Make Sense of Inequality
Feb 21, 2018
Ed Pavlić discusses the role of music in communicating suffering and resistance in the African-American experience
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Sadie Alexander: An Economist Ahead of Her Time
Feb 7, 2018
Nina Banks assesses the legacy of the first African-American economist in the United States
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Why Cities Are Key to Escaping Poverty
Jan 31, 2018
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.
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How to Rewrite the Rules of Globalization
Jan 10, 2018
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.
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Narrative as Destiny: Steering Markets and Innovation to Serve Society
Dec 6, 2017
“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.”
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Scottish First Minister Opens #INET2017
Nov 10, 2017
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.
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Redefining Inequality
Nov 8, 2017
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?
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Commission on Global Economic Transformation Announcement
Nov 6, 2017
Several founding CGET members announce the ambitious project and respond to questions from the press.
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Economists Often Say History Is Irrelevant. That’s A Mistake
Nov 1, 2017
Examining the past is essential to understanding the present
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Why Exports Alone Can’t Make Poor Countries Rich
Sep 27, 2017
“Blindly” Engaging in Global Supply Chains Can Erode Developing Nations’ Economic Power
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Economies Live in Societies. Why Do So Few Economists Acknowledge That?
Sep 20, 2017
Rather than continue to narrow the field, economists need to ask what they’re missing
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Why Economists Need the Arts
Sep 13, 2017
Engaging in music, literature and the arts is essential for understanding context and human behavior—which economists so often miss
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Is Poverty More Worrying than Inequality?
Sep 6, 2017
Xavier Gabaix argues that public policies should prioritize alleviating deprivation at the bottom over narrowing the rich-poor gap
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How Elite Financial Networks Rule the World
Aug 30, 2017
Personal connections are key to understanding concentrations of wealth and power
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How About that Looming Robotic Job Apocalypse?
Aug 16, 2017
Why we should worry about job quality, not quantity—or robot overlords
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Are Corporations’ Financial Investments Slowing Growth?
Aug 9, 2017
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.
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Institutions, Democracy, and Economic Development
Aug 2, 2017
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.
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The Four Horsemen of the Econopocalypse
Jul 26, 2017
If standard economic theory can’t explain a traffic jam, how can it cope with crises?
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The Retirement Wealth Inequality Machine
Jul 12, 2017
Professor Ghilarducci describes the roadblocks to securing retirement and retirement plans beyond the 401k.
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How Not to Criticize Standard Economic Models
Jul 5, 2017
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.
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How to Resist Trump’s “Toxic To-Do List”
Jun 15, 2017
Naomi Klein discusses her new book, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need.
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Do Economists Have Social Responsibilities?
Jun 7, 2017
Economics is not, nor can it be, value-free.
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Oceanic Economics
May 31, 2017
Ocean expert Peter Neill says the watery depths hold solutions to earth’s most pressing challenges
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Microfinance & Austerity: No Womens' Empowerment without Community Involvement
May 17, 2017
How austerity policies and microfinance can bankrupt rather than empower women. Professor Girón discusses why microfinance cannot replace development banks.
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Europe Will Find A Way Forward with the Euro
May 10, 2017
A breakup of the Euro will be too difficult and costly for member countries.
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The Push and Pull of Inequality and Identity
May 3, 2017
Professor Dutt discusses how group identity is key to addressing inequality and how inequality can disrupt group identity.
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The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class
Apr 19, 2017
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.
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Making Innovation Work for China and other Developing Countries
Apr 12, 2017
Along the entire “innovation chain” — from research and development, to production and commercialization — government and private sectors have very different roles to play.
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A Turbulent Capitalist Economy: The vision of Anwar Shaikh
Apr 5, 2017
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.
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Women Foot the Bill for Economic Growth, Parity Requires Social Investment
Mar 22, 2017
Pursuing equality while growing the economy requires reframing social spending as a form of investment.
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Membership Theory of Inequality
Mar 15, 2017
A transition from the conventional policy of “redistributing income” to “redistributing membership”, could promote economic integration across communities and intergenerational mobility.
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The Next Generation of New Economic Thinkers
Mar 7, 2017
Explore your curiosity in economics in an open and critical community.
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How the Economics of the Economics Profession Resists New Thinking
Feb 22, 2017
Following a thought-provoking panel discussion at the AEA, James Heckman and Rob Johnson discuss peer-reviewed journals and a professional incentive structure that constricts the idea space and reinforces tired orthodoxies in economics.
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Race Has a Regional Dimension in America’s Political Economy
Feb 20, 2017
Stanford economic historian Professor Gavin Wright, addressing the Institute’s conference on the economics of race, argues that the conditions facing the children of the great migration from the South are very different to the conditions for the children of those who stayed behind.
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Why Greenspan Knew, But Didn’t Act
Feb 8, 2017
Mallaby’s research shows that Greenspan knew more about the looming perils than people realize.
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Adair Turner on the Liquidity Risks of ETFs
Feb 5, 2017
Turner discusses The Economist’s Society the liquidity risks posed by Exchange Traded Funds.
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‘Otherness’ is More Complex Than Black and White
Feb 3, 2017
Professor Tchen explores the many layers of “otherness” at work in America’s political economy
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To Save Capitalism, Make it Work for Average Folks
Feb 1, 2017
Smick argues that distortions of capitalism have fed populist rebellion, and that reviving a capitalism that offers opportunity for average people to increase their earnings is an urgent priority if America’s political economy is to be stabilized.
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What the ‘Dual Economy’ Model Reveals About Today’s America
Jan 30, 2017
Professor Temin sees the US economy as bifurcated along lines analogous to the situation described in developing world economies by W. Arthur Lewis.
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Brunnermeier: Europe’s Future Will Be Settled By a Battle of Ideas
Jan 25, 2017
A conflict which revolves around key economic policy differences on questions such as rules vs. discretion, solidarity vs. liability, liquidity vs. solvency and austerity vs. stimulus.
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Racist Violence and Economic Activity
Jan 5, 2017
Riots, lynchings and other forms of violence dramatically disproportionate impact on the lives and prospects of African inventors. That’s just one indicator, says Professor Lisa Cook, of the profound impact of racial violence on the economic structure
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The Burden of Race Discrimination is Heaviest Where it Intersects with Gender
Dec 30, 2016
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.
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Garza Parsing America’s Backlash
Dec 27, 2016
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
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Volcker on the Treasury and the Fed, Regulation and More
Dec 24, 2016
Former Treasury Secretary Paul Volcker reviews a life’s work and the pressing challenges of the moment in conversation with Institute for New Economic Thinking President Rob Johnson
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Why Economic Analysis Can’t Ignore Racial Categories
Dec 20, 2016
What Donald Trump does well, Professor john a. powell explains, is link economic concerns with ontological and racial concerns among his voters. Many economists and social justice activists, by contrast, try to reduce racial concerns to economic and class concerns. His presentation demonstrates the centrality, conscious or unconscious, of belonging and ‘otherness’ in comprehending the structures of society.
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Curriculum Reform is Vital if Economics is to Serve Humanity
Dec 7, 2016
Joe Earle, co-founder of The Post-Crash Economics Society, member of Rethinking Economics and co-author of the Econocracy, explains why his group is trying to democratize economics as a conversation and a policy–making process.
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Exploring the Economics of Race
Nov 30, 2016
Columbia professor Dan O’Flaherty explains how an awareness of racial trauma developed from growing up in Newark inspired him to write and teach on the economics of race.
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A Moral Challenge to Economists
Nov 11, 2016
In his keynote address to our #EconOfRace conference in Detroit, Rev. Dr. William Barber III issued a blistering critique of structural inequality in the United States, and urged economists to recognize their responsibility to the poor.
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How Race and Gender Reinforce Economic Inequality
Nov 9, 2016
Prof. Marlene Kim says her research has revealed that African-American women face triple penalties from race and gender bias, and the combination of those two
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Lazonick links stock buybacks to America’s jobs challenge
Nov 4, 2016
In an Al Jazeera documentary “In Search of the Great American Job”, Institute scholar William Lazonick offers some arch insights into the relationship between financialization — particularly the “shareholder value” ideology in corporations, which drives the transfer of profits to shareholders through stock buybacks — and job creation and inequality.
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‘Stratification’ Theory Tackles the Racial Blindspots of Orthodox Economics
Nov 2, 2016
Economist Darrick Hamilton and Institute President Rob Johnson discuss “stratification economics”, which addresses the failure of orthodox economics to see, explain and point to remedies for persistent racial inequality.
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What Caused Detroit’s Demise?
Oct 26, 2016
Historian Prof. Thomas Sugrue offers a critique of the conventional wisdom that roots the city’s fate in the racial tension of the tumultuous ‘60s and the decline of the auto industry.
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The War on Crime, not crime itself, fueled Detroit’s post-1967 decline
Oct 24, 2016
In this Q-and-A, historian and National Book Award finalist Heather Ann Thompson argues that draconian police tactics in black Detroit neighborhoods had as much to do with the city’s decimation as white flight and lost jobs.
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Clinton Likely to Win, But Struggle in 2020 Unless She Changes Course
Oct 20, 2016
Institute for New Economic Thinking President Robert Johnson, in an appearance of the CNN International show Quest Means Business, warns that the anger of Trump’s supporters is unlikely to ebb absent significant economic and political changes — and that this anger could be more successfully marshaled by a more skilled and sophisticated Republican challenger four years from now.
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Investigating ‘Secular Stagnation’
Oct 13, 2016
Institute for New Economic Thinking launches a far-reaching research effort into causes and potential remedies for the low-to-no-growth malaise afflicting many of the world’s leading economies
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The Dangers of Financialization
Oct 10, 2016
The financial system no longer funds new ideas and projects — only about 15 percent of the money coming out of financial institutions goes into business investment; the rest is spent buying and selling existing financial instruments.
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Getting to Grips with the Trump Phenomenon
Oct 5, 2016
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.
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Global Finance, Debt and Sustainability
Oct 3, 2016
CEP Lecture by Adair Turner co-hosted with the IMF.
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Class Divide: Same Street, Different Destinations
Oct 3, 2016
Marc Levin highlights the recent effects of hyper-gentrification in New York City’s West Chelsea, focusing on an intersection where an elite private school sits directly across the street from public housing projects.
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The Economic Legacy of Racism
Sep 28, 2016
If additional education is not the solution to racial inequality, what is?
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Understanding the Economics of Networks
Sep 7, 2016
Prof. Sanjeev Goyal explains his general theory of network formation based on individual incentives, and their economic implications
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Who Picked the Pockets of America’s Households?
Aug 24, 2016
The 2008 financial meltdown wiped out what was left of the savings of millions of American families, but Professor Edward Wolff says decades of income inequality had set the stage for the collapse of their household wealth.