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Robert Johnson, the head of the progressive Institute for New Economic Thinking, calls the Biden task force a “real good group.” But he then asked: “What power will they really have … after the power of money bends the best designs in a self-interested direction?”

Thomas Sugrue, Professor of History at NYU, talks to Rob Johnson about why the multiracial protests against police brutality make 2020 different from 1968.

Justin Lin, Director of the National School for Economic Development in Beijing, talks to Rob Johnson about how economists can work together internationally for shared prosperity.

Thea Lee, President of the Economic Policy Institute, talks to Rob Johnson about the roots of the COVID-19 economic crisis in America’s dysfunctional labor market.

Commission on Global Economic Transformation member Joseph Stiglitz argues that an independent Scotland in the EU would “resolve a lot of the uncertainties” of Brexit at INET’s Reawakening conference in Edinburgh

Did the industrial revolution increase the relative demand for skilled labor, or decrease it?

This research project addresses a need for a more comprehensive estimation of the distributional impact of various policies attempting to limit carbon emissions in the United States.

Pavlina Tcherneva, Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College, discusses her new book, The Case for a Jobs Guarantee, outlining why society would benefit tremendously from such a program.

New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos talks to Rob Johnson about his recent article, “How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump,” as well as the state of US-China relations.

Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar talks to Rob Johnson about how the pandemic opens the door to more surveillance technology from Silicon Valley, but also to a growing consensus on reigning in Wall Street excess.

“As chair of Britain’s Financial Services Authority, Adair Turner saw the collapse of the financial system firsthand. In the aftermath of the crisis, he became one of the main advocates of helicopter money – but today he doubts if universal basic income is the best way to address growing inequality. Adair Turner spoke with EURACTIV’s Jorge Valero during INET’s conference held in Edinburgh (Scotland”

Chen Long, the director of China’s Luohan Academy, talks about the ways in which information technology can jump start economic development in the developing world.

Historian Paul Street talks about how the roots of the Trump presidency lie in the continuous rightward drift in US politics since the 1970’s, to which the Democrats contributed as much as the Republicans

Brian Barnier, Director of Analytics at ValueBridge Advisors, talks to Rob Johnson about how the pandemic could change the mission of central banks.

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

This research project develops an approach to policy analysis in the context of a macroeconomic model that does not assume that people in the economy forecast the economy’s future evolution under any given policy in the same way as the policy analyst’s own model does.

Taking a quick break from my work in the Samuelson archives – so fascinating, believe me! – I can’t resist sharing the following, which I found in his correspondence files.

“From 2010 to 2019 the FDA approved 356 drugs. Recent research from Bentley University finds that NIH funding contributed to every single new drug approved. At a cost to the tax payer of roughly $230 billion dollars. In spite of this contribution the NIH is listed on only 27 of those patents. This suggests that while tax payers provide funding for the bulk of the early stage research they do not get patent protections supposedly secured by the by dole act. In essence American tax payers are paying the highest prices in the world for drugs they already paid to help develop.” — Senator Tammy Baldwin

“A chronic trend of this sort would indicate that the yuan was now overvalued versus the dollar,”

how economics students have begun to push back against the stale ideas that were proven wrong during the recent financial crisis.

Columbia University’s renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs talks about the lessons he has learned from consulting with governments around the world, about how global problems, such as the war in Ukraine, will only be solved via efforts to understand the other side, never through force.

How systemic racism of the past continues to haunt the present.

From LBJ to the present, the federal government has knowingly continued to expand the US fossil economy, not passively but as a major active player, endangering the future of young people.

“School choice” aimed to block the choice of equal, integrated education for Black families

Has the financial system contributed to the climate crisis? Can it contribute to a green transition?

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Isabella Weber, assistant professor of economics at UMass Amherst, discusses her new book on how China managed its transition from central planning to markets

The world’s library for anyone interested in economics.

In the 19th Century, “hypothecations” provided investors with valuable information on sovereign fiscal resources

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Please join us for discussions at the end of each day.

How do we move fiscal policy from part of the problem to part of the solution?

Is Victorian writer Walter Bagehot, whose adage “lending freely against good collateral at a penalty rate” has been gospel for central bankers, still relevant in a post-Great Financial Crisis world?

Contrary to the New Keynesian paradigm, long-term unemployment can be reversed without a significant uptick in inflation

The People’s Bank of China’s network of local currency swap arrangements provide Asian countries with a much-needed safety net, while also strengthening China’s diplomatic position

The New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) is a straightjacket for macroeconomics

Yueran Ma discusses her work with INET’s Private Debt Initiative

Dr. Anthony Fauci tells host Steve Clemons that the United States can go back to “normal” in the autumn, which starts in September 2021, if 70-85 percent of Americans get vaccinated by the summer.

Wade Hands argues that empiricism without theory is insufficient

GDP doesn’t tell the whole story—Robert McMaster explains the Economic Democracy Index

Risky lending took down the global economy in 2008. Tracking it now is a vital job for economists, says Juliane Begenau

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

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

Why Italy’s woes are a warning to the whole Eurozone

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

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

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

Investigating the history of economic thought fuels innovative thinking 

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

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

Converting an Obscure Agency Footnote into an “At Will” Nullification of Dodd-Frank’s Regulation of the Multi-Trillion Dollar Financial Swaps Market

Richard Baldwin writes on why we must rethink our outdated ideas about international trade.

As early as 1900, German sociologist Georg Simmel identified a central feature of wealth in his seminal work The Philosophy of Money. Simmel writes about the superadditum of wealth for the rich, namely that a great fortune is encircled by innumerable possibilities of use, as though by an astral body.

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A critical analysis of Piketty’s work

Learn more about the Commission on Global Economic Transformation

Some fresh reflections on ECB policy

Veiling among Muslim women is modeled as a commitment mechanism that limits temptation to deviate from religious norms of behavior. 

Untangling the Facts about Immigration in the World Economy.

“The Failure of Democracy” – “The weaknesses of Weimar” Do headlines such as these suggest that the whole architecture of the first German republic was wrong, that it was doomed right from the start, that the “collapse” was unavoidable?

A look at how liberal democracies have disintegrated amid economic crises. Speakers: Thomas Ferguson, Tiziana Foresti, Nadia Garbellini, Peter Langer, Joachim Voth, Ariel Wirkierman Discussant: James Kurth Chair: Thomas Ferguson

How we can create useful economic theory that recognizes that the future is radically uncertain?

This paper answers fundamental questions that have preoccupied modern economic thought since the 18th century.

Long-term real interest rates across the world are low, having fallen by about 450 basis points (bps) over the past thirty years.

The road towards a decent society; lessons from classical political economy

The path to holding fossil fuel producers accountable for climate change & climate damages 

The Death of the Seventy-year American Empire  

The contemporary literature on neoliberalism has grown so large as to be unwieldy. For some on the left, this has presented an occasion to denounce it altogether.

Is Comparative Advantage the Ideology of the Comparatively Advantaged? 

What can policy do to remedy the spread of dual economies in the developed world?

The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure

“Dual Economy” models were developed to explain growth in the developing world. Now they appear necessary to comprehend the high income trap that afflicts the world’s most developed economies.

Economists’ infamous failure at predicting the recent financial crisis has brought new impetus to studies on diversity in the economics profession. Such studies have underlined how diversity plays a prominent role in enriching economic analyses.

It is commonly overlooked that the concept of market efficiency embowers a time-dimension. Illustrating with an example from the class of persistent random walks, we show that a price process can be a martingale on one time-scale but inefficient on another.

This paper presents a model of mass incarceration in the United States, which has the largest proportion of its population imprisoned among advanced countries.