122 Results for “ADAM SMITH”
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Podcasts
We Need a Reparative Culture
Jul 22, 2021
Andre Perry, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the book, Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Properties in America’s Black Cities, discusses the on-going problem of how real estate dynamics continue to maintain racial injustice in cities across United States, and how we need a “reparative culture” to address the problem
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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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Article
Could Modern Crises Stem from Problems in the Human Brain?
Jul 15, 2021
As a pandemic continues to expose weaknesses in our human systems and institutions, psychiatrist and author Iain McGilchrist’s proposition that a battle in our heads is impacting the direction of our future is worth revisiting.
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Running Out of Time: Saving the World’s Oceans
Jul 8, 2021
World Ocean Observatory founder Peter Neill talks about the dire emergency in which the world’s oceans currently find themselves in and what must be done to save them.
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China and the Supply Chain: A Comment on the June 2021 White House Review
Jun 23, 2021
Contrary to rhetoric from Democrats and Republicans, the U.S. has an economic interest in trade and peace with China
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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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Podcasts
Life After Capitalism
Jun 3, 2021
Rob Johnson talks with Tim Jackson about his new book, “Post Growth: Life after Capitalism,” and how we might break free of the cycle of restrictive thinking which has plagued economics, and the world.
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Article
Top Economist: As Pandemic Recedes, a Chance to Rethink Unemployment
Jun 3, 2021
Canadian economist Mario Seccareccia, recipient of this year’s John Kenneth Galbraith Prize in Economics, says it’s time to reconsider the idea of full employment. He spoke to Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking about why 2021 offers a rare opportunity to rebalance the economy in favor of Main Street.
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How to Control the Control of Nature?
May 17, 2021
Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The New Yorker, discusses her latest book, Under a White Sky, which explores how technological solutions don’t always lead where we think they will, especially in the face of the climate crisis.
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Article
Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One
Apr 13, 2021
Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a “Green Industrial Policy” or, indeed, a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”
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Podcasts
The Future of Economics
Mar 25, 2021
Tiger Gao, brilliant young host of the Princeton University podcast, Policy Punchline, interviews Rob Johnson about INET’s aims, the function of economics in academia, and the relationship between Silicon Valley culture and the latest technologies, among other things.
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Podcasts
The Master Algorithm
Mar 22, 2021
Tim O’Reilly, the founder of O’Reilly Media and author of the book, What’s the Future?, talks about how new technology can either be considered a scapegoat or a mirror and what this means for our future.
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Podcasts
How the Study of Meaning-Making Will Enrich Economic Analysis
Feb 4, 2021
Robert Akerlof, economics professor at the University of Warwick, discusses his research into issues of self-esteem and values and how such a focus can greatly improve efforts to make sense of economic activity.
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Podcasts
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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Article
Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy: A Comment
Dec 7, 2020
A response to Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers