466 Videos
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How the FED's QE Contributed to Inequality
Aug 3, 2016
Epstein discusses financial reform, central banking, and how the FED actually contributed to economic inequality.
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Modern Monopolies
Jul 21, 2016
With the power of modern computing being harnessed into increasingly small and portable devices, what do digital platforms mean for the entrenched global economy?
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Wealth & Inequality: Back to the Future
Jun 29, 2016
What fraction of total economic growth accrues to the top 10%, top 1%, etc.? How does growth per capita of the bottom 90% compare to overall growth? Zucman discusses his research and efforts to bring more hard data into the inequality dialogue.
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Understanding China’s Cultural Revolution
Jun 22, 2016
Frank Dikötter explores previously classified Chinese leadership documents, and attempts to set the record straight.
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There Is a Way to Stop Machines From Making Americans Poorer
Jun 8, 2016
Technology will ruin America if we don’t compensate for its impact, warns Andy Stern.
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How Neoliberalism Threatens Democracy
May 25, 2016
Professor Wendy Brown engages in an in-depth exploration of the corrosive effect of approaching education, law, politics and governance through the lens of neoliberal economic rationality.
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Capitalism and the media: Can crowdfunding spare us from bad news?
May 18, 2016
Julia Cage warns that a media ravaged by market forces cannot serve democracy’s need for an informed citizenry.
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie?
May 4, 2016
McCloskey discusses the thesis of her recent trilogy, The Bourgeois Era, which holds that the driving force of economic growth in 17th and 18th century Europe was simply liberal ideas.
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Equity and Growth Through Knowledge Based Economies
Apr 26, 2016
Benner’s recent work with Manuel Pastor suggests the somewhat counterintuitive result that geographic regions with the most equitable distributions of wealth and influence also tend to have the highest growth.
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How do we prevent future financial crisis in emerging markets?
Apr 12, 2016
Should policymakers rely on domestic macroprudential regulation in their quest for greater financial stability?
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China’s Coming Debt Crisis?
Mar 22, 2016
The condition of the Chinese economy is increasingly becoming a significant factor exorcising the minds of global policy makers.
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Wealth Inequality in the US and Beyond
Mar 15, 2016
It’s no secret that wealth inequality has grown, both in the US and abroad over the past several decades. What has been particularly notable about the work of Emmanuel Saez is the quantification of that inequality.
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The Economics of Care
Feb 23, 2016
Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family, non-market work and the economics of care. She is Professor Emirita of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who has written extensively about the economics of care and reciprocity.
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Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis
Feb 16, 2016
Exploring the genesis of an important work, one that critiques mainstream neoclassical economics and offers an alternative framework for understanding modern economies.
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The Fundamental Design Flaw of the Eurozone
Feb 9, 2016
From the very start, the European Monetary Union (EMU) was set up to fail.
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Globalized Finance and the Crisis of 2008
Feb 2, 2016
The world economy is just starting to recover from the most disastrous episode in the history of financial globalisation. Understanding what happened is essential.
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Innovation and the State
Jan 26, 2016
Economic growth and rising prosperity does not happen at the moment of invention. Only an innovation policy aiming to maximise activities throughout the innovation cycle will succeed in capturing economic growth that enhance the welfare of all citizens.
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Relearning History
Jan 19, 2016
Lessons Ignored From the 1930s
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What Tax Records Can Tell Us About Gender Inequality
Jan 12, 2016
Professor Casarico explains why her focus on gender and the “glass ceiling” can help us push forward economic thinking.
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Who Stole Ireland's Pot of Gold
Dec 15, 2015
Patrick Honohan, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, discusses the Irish banking crisis.
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Invention vs Innovation
Dec 8, 2015
Innovation is not a magic pill to solve the current afflictions that ail our 21st century economy.
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Connecting American Foreign Policy to Economic Policy
Dec 7, 2015
How might a reimagined American foreign policy both bolster the domestic economy and help build a 21st-century global economy that works for everyone?
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Do Economists Understand the Economy?
Dec 1, 2015
Lance Taylor explains how missing the big picture is too common in the field.
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Inclusive Growth: Making It Happen
Nov 20, 2015
Exploring inequality, gender, and the North-South divide.
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The Global Haves And Have-Nots In The 21st Century
Nov 15, 2015
This is almost certainly the highest level of relative, and certainly absolute, global inequality at any point in human history. Is there anything we can do to reverse or mitigate this trend?
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Economic Growth, Climate Change and Environmental Limits
Nov 6, 2015
Will environmental limits, including limits on the climate system, slow or even halt economic growth? If not, how will the nature of economic growth have to shift?
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Governance in Africa
Oct 29, 2015
A combination of leeway within the government and constitutional immunity during incumbency enables office holders to abuse their budget at will, which in turn creates a crisis of growth in Africa, relative to other parts of the world.
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What Really Caused the Crisis & What to Do About It
Oct 14, 2015
Adair Turner discusses his new book, Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance.
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Big Finance, Demystified
Oct 8, 2015
John Kay shares findings from his new book, Other People’s Money, and his insights on changing the financial sector.
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Fiscal Austerity & Greece
Sep 24, 2015
Professor Richard Portes discusses the problems of Europe and then specifically drills down into Greece itself.
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Curriculum Reform & Rethinking Economics
Sep 17, 2015
Marc Lavoie discusses the methodological foundations of heterodox economics, and offers a very different model of money and credit, firms and pricing, consumer theory, effective demand and employment and growth theories.
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Intersections of Psychology and Economics
Sep 11, 2015
Tania Singer on the key importance of understanding preferences and behavioral change.
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China and the Challenge of Economic Reform
Aug 27, 2015
Bursting Bubbles leave a mess – in the markets, throughout the real economy, in societies, in politics and with policymaking.
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The Death of Neo-Liberalism
Aug 20, 2015
The financial crisis of 2008 was not a run of the mill recession.
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How do we move beyond the “austerity” debates?
Aug 15, 2015
And how do they relate to our democratic institutions and institutional social relations?
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What Can Economists Learn From Literature?
Aug 6, 2015
Literary productions offer illustrations of economic theory in action.
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Tackling the Energy & Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century
Jul 19, 2015
How well do our assumptions about the global challenges of energy, environment and economic development fit the facts?
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Credit Booms & Credit Busts
Jul 9, 2015
There is now a growing consensus among policymakers and academics that a key element to improve safeguards against financial instability is to strengthen the “macroprudential” orientation of regulatory and supervisory frameworks.
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Fixing the Eurozone
Jul 1, 2015
Greece: reculer pour mieux sauter
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It's Time to Get Radical on Inequality
Jun 25, 2015
America’s economic system has failed by not raising living standards for most.
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The Death of ‘Homo Economicus’
Jun 18, 2015
Good incentives are no substitute for good citizens.
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How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt our Finances, Freedom, and Security
Jun 14, 2015
Janine Wedel charts the fast–evolving system of power and influence. Who is accountable? What are the remedies available to the average citizen?
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The Long Road Back Toward Ethical Banking Practices
May 20, 2015
How do we rebuild trust in financial services?
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Adair Turner on Debt
May 13, 2015
The former chairman of Britain’s Financial Services Authority and author of the forthcoming book “Between Debt and the Devil” explains why private debt, not banks, deepened the financial crisis and continues to cause trouble today.
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling
May 3, 2015
Whilst progress has been made, the “glass ceiling” dividing men and women has yet to be broken definitively. Monika Queisser discusses the challenges still facing women in the workplace and beyond.
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Women, Finance & Society
Apr 27, 2015
Gudrun Johnsen on Iceland, “womenomics”, and Finance & Society
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Income Inequality in Europe
Apr 19, 2015
A member of the Austrian Central Bank tells us his research on wealth and income inequality in Europe.
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Greece and the Eurozone
Apr 14, 2015
Yanis Varoufakis and Joseph Stiglitz discuss Greece’s financial challenges and the associated Eurozone politics in this exclusive conversation.
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Upholding the Rule of Law
Apr 13, 2015
Here we are, some 7 years after the Great Financial Crisis, and not one senior banking executive has gone to jail.
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Caught in a Debt Trap
Apr 7, 2015
In his latest annual address at Cass Business School, Visiting Professor Lord Adair Turner warned that the world is caught in a ‘debt overhang’.
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Europe and the Challenge of Re-Starting Growth
Mar 13, 2015
How can we reconnect economic success to socioeconomic outcomes?
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Setting the Stage for the Next Financial Crisis
Mar 6, 2015
Michael Greenberger discusses the current state of play of regulatory reform and gives a barely passing grade.
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Argentina vs the Vultures
Mar 3, 2015
Cecilia Nahon, Argentina’s Ambassador to Washington, DC., discusses the issues plaguing the Argentine government in it’s attempts to conclude debt restructuring.
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Energy and the Economics of Renewables
Mar 1, 2015
Is moving away from coal and into shale - rather than directly into renewables - a worthy move from an economic as well as environmental point of view?
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Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance
Feb 13, 2015
Fresh from discussions at the UN regarding the Argentinian debt crisis, Institute grantee Kevin Gallagher tells us about his new book and how developing countries can look for opportunity amidst modern financial obstacles.
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Forging Fresh Tools from the Past
Feb 1, 2015
John Smithin argues that we need to rethink the “consensus” with tools old and new.
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Much Ado About Cyber Security
Jan 5, 2015
Private data is leaked more and more in our society. Wikileaks, Facebook, and identity theft are just three examples. Network defenses are constantly under attack from cyber criminals, organized hacktivists, and even disgruntled ex-employees.
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China's Regulation Problem
Jan 4, 2015
Repression in China today is at its most severe point since the aftermath of 1989. David Wu discusses the tensions inherent in a one-party state which is struggling to aspire toward a more predictable rule of law.
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Demystifying Modern Monetary Theory
Dec 27, 2014
Bill Mitchell presents a coherent analysis of how money is created, how it functions in global exchange rate regimes, and how the mystification of the nature of money has constrained governments, and prevented states from acting in the public interest.
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Identifying Weaknesses in the Eurozone
Dec 19, 2014
How should the Eurozone handle unemployment and other immediate hurdles?
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New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals
Dec 17, 2014
The recently observed surge in wealth doesn’t equate to growth of productive capital. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Branko Milanovic, Paul Krugman and Duncan Foley discuss these issues and more.
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Lessons from the Great Depression
Dec 5, 2014
How can we better integrate history into economic analysis?
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Financial Regulations In Paralysis
Nov 14, 2014
Bill Black knows banks.
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Governing With A Higher Purpose To Spur Innovation
Nov 7, 2014
How can the state manage its central role in the innovation economy if the state itself has become an instrument for facilitating corporate predation?
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Government Risk and Private Sector Reward
Oct 29, 2014
How should the government recoup the benefits from the fruits of its research? And what role should the government play going forward in important areas such as clean tech?
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The Consequences of Money-Manager Capitalism
Oct 20, 2014
In the wake of World War II, much of the western world, particularly the United States, adopted a new form of capitalism called “managerial welfare-state capitalism.”
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Two Hundred Years of Politics and High Finance
Oct 16, 2014
These videos cover not only Dr. de Cecco’s seminal research on the international gold standard, but his views on the international monetary system between the wars, the formation of the Bretton Woods system, and its breakdown – all topics on which Dr. de Cecco has written copiously.
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Fixing The Eurozone Architecture
Oct 8, 2014
Has the euro experiment largely failed to meet the needs of the people who use it? If so, what can be done? Andrea Terzi suggests innovative ways to repair the Eurozone’s flawed fiscal architecture.
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What’s the Difference Between Growth and Prosperity?
Sep 30, 2014
Peter Victor challenges the basis of our obsession with economic growth
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The Tenacity of the Free Market Ideology
Sep 23, 2014
Fred Block discusses his book, “The Power of Market Fundamentalism”.
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Austerity Defangs the Celtic Tiger
Sep 11, 2014
Will the “Celtic Tiger” re-emerge or is Ireland’s recovery stunted by austerity programs?
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Creating A Legal Foundation For Finance
Sep 4, 2014
How does the law interact with finance? Katharina Pistor on the paradoxical relationship between law and finance.
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Early Interventions Lead To Higher IQs
Sep 2, 2014
We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities to grow intellectually.
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Cyber Security & Centralized Data, What Could Go Wrong?
Aug 26, 2014
What is the scale of effort that is actually required to initiate global cyber warfare? Amir Herzberg elaborates on cyber security, cyber warfare and basic privacy in the global digital age.
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Healthcare In The 21st Century
Aug 9, 2014
Many believe that we already have a healthcare problem. But let’s get this straight: healthcare is a solution. Joon Yun posits a new way of thinking about health, illness and aging.
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Beyond Dodd-Frank
Aug 3, 2014
Has the Dodd-Frank Act had its intended effect?
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Creating a Culture of Entrepreneurship in India
Jul 23, 2014
Ajay Kela on creating a culture of entrepreneurship in India.
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Who Wins and Loses From Innovation?
Jul 1, 2014
Improved access to education is often touted as the key to addressing racial inequality in the economy, but Lisa Cook’s research into the innovation economy shows that women and African-Americans are underrepresented despite their educational qualifications.
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Economic Thinking in A Fallible World
Jun 21, 2014
Eric Weinstein of Thiel Capital, a mathematician, physicist, and economist, explains the issues around economic thought and their potential consequences.
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Preparing For The Next Financial Crisis
Jun 14, 2014
So how far have we come since Lehman? How much more do we have to do?
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Innovation And Its Potential To Damage Society
Jun 6, 2014
What if innovation is not an unalloyed good for society? What if it simply adds to our current dystopian dysfunction?
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The Perils Of Our Growing Inequality
May 31, 2014
Institute President Rob Johnson interviews David Cay Johnston about his new book, Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality.
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What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?
Apr 10, 2014
In recent decades, market values have crowded out non- market norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?
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Innovation & Financial Reform
Apr 9, 2014
Adair Turner at the Institute’s #HumanAfterAll conference in Toronto, CA (2014).
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The Challenges of Europe's Monetary Union
Mar 9, 2014
Pisani-Ferry discusses the challenges facing the creation of a common monetary union in the form that was eventually agreed in the 1990s absent a political union.
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Building a Bridge Between Political And Economic Reform
Feb 23, 2014
In this “New Economic Thinking” interview, EBRD Chief Economist and Special Adviser to the President Erik Berglof, who also is a member of the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Governing Board, discusses the report’s findings with Institute President Rob Johnson.
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Inequality and the Current Account
Feb 17, 2014
Institute for New Economic Thinking grantees Christian Belabed and Thomas Theobald and their co-authors have revived this old theory as a hypothesis to explain the apparent statistical link between rising income inequality and current account deficits.
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A Computer Simulation of Monetary Dynamics
Feb 1, 2014
Sometimes new tools are what we need to create new thinking.
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The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value
Jan 22, 2014
Lazonick discusses how we evolved from a society in which corporate interests were largely aligned with those of broader public purpose into a state where crony capitalism, accounting fraud, and corporate predation are predominant characteristics.
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Financial Reform in a Crisis: The Swedish Solution
Jan 3, 2014
Did the so-called “Scandinavian approach” offer a better alternative than the Geithner plan?
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Beyond Representative-Agent Macroeconomics
Jan 3, 2014
Corrado DiGuilmi and Laura Carvalho, grantees of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, have individually been exploring two possible alternative analytical entry points: mean field methods from physics and stock flow consistent modeling from accounting. The idea behind their grant is to work together to combine these two approaches, the first bottom-up and the second top-down.
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Finance to Support Growth
Dec 12, 2013
What is most demoralizing to participants in the financial markets? Falling prices? Constant volatility? How about a vacuum of trust?
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Time for a New Approach for Unemployment?
Dec 8, 2013
More than five years after the fall of Lehman Brothers we are still dealing with the problem of high unemployment, the worst kind of “waste” in economic theory. Is there a better approach?
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The Moral Limits of Markets
Dec 3, 2013
What happens when a market-based economy becomes a market-based society?
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Mazzucato and Kaletsky Debate U.K. Mortgage Plan on BBC
Nov 27, 2013
The Bank of England took the first step in putting the brakes on the surging property market as it scrapped the United Kingdom’s flagship initiative that encourages mortgage lending, introduced earlier this year by Treasury minster George Osborne.
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The Continuing Risk of Derivatives
Nov 19, 2013
Jan Kregel on the Continuing Risk of Derivatives
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What Do Management Consultants Do?
Nov 18, 2013
Most of us probably think of management consultancy as a technocratic function, helping companies fix internal problems in order to become more productive. But Institute for New Economic Thinking grantee Kimberley Chong thinks about it in a different way, by viewing management consultancy through the lens of cultural anthropology.
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The Economics of Uncertainty
Nov 6, 2013
Studies in psychology, neuroscience, biology, and many of the social sciences have long illustrated that human beings react very different from what economics textbooks tell you to expect when they are operating under conditions of radical uncertainty.
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What Math and Physics Can Do for New Economic Thinking
Oct 29, 2013
In this interview, Eric Weinstein explores many creative ways that physics and more sophisticated forms of math can be used to rescue economics from itself and restore its now tarnished reputation.
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What Causes Inequality? An Econophysics Approach
Oct 23, 2013
In standard economics, inequality in outcomes is typically attributed to inequality of inputs, for example, from differences in education. Yakovenko thinks about inequality in a different way by extending some ideas from statistical physics.