122 Results for “ADAM SMITH”
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YSI Event
YSI Europe Convening
YSI
Regional ConveningMay 31–Jun 3, 2018
As in previous years, young scholars will come together in Trento during the annual Festival dell’Economia. This gathering will serve as the YSI Europe Convening for 2018. Attendees will have the opportunity to share their work with YSI members from across Europe, while also partaking in the Festival dell’Economia.
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Article
Kanth: A 400-Year Program of Modernist Thinking is Exploding
Mar 9, 2017
Eurocentric modernism has unhinged us from our human nature, argues Rajani Kanth in his new book
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The Clash of Economic Ideas: A Review
Apr 25, 2012
When Paul Krugman paints John Maynard Keynes as a pioneering critic of dominant free-market economics, he exaggerates wildly, both about the rigidity of orthodoxy and about the pioneering character of Keynes’ critique.
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Markets and Artificial Intelligence
Apr 24, 2023
What happens when we fuse, for the first time, artificially intelligent agents into either our market or political structures?
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Podcast
Lynn Parramore & Jeffrey Spear
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America’s Chilling Experiment in Human Sacrifice
May 14, 2020
John Ruskin helps shed light on what it means to have an economy that demands we die for it
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The Theory of the Firm: Language, Model and Reality
Nov 18, 2012
In a previous post we queried whether the theory of the consumer as developed in the first three chapters of Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green (and indeed other comparable texts) provides anything by way of content beyond what is implied by the abstract description of consumers as agents who are maximizing something. [We did not discuss chapter four, on aggregation of demand, to which we may return later]. As we noted then, a comparable point can be made about the theory of the firm.
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YSI Event
INET/YSI Pre-conference @ STOREP 2019
YSI
WorkshopJun 25–27, 2019
The Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP) announce a day and a half of lectures, workshops, and debates held on the 26th and 27th of June, just before the annual STOREP conference, in Siena, Italy.
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INET Research in a Stressful Year
Feb 23, 2018
In the face of laissez-faire capitalism at home and resurgent nationalism across the globe, INET offers an innovative look at the causes of—and solutions for—the problems that ail a fissuring world economy.
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Is the Doom of Humanity Really Inevitable? Maybe Not.
Jan 4, 2022
Evidence reveals our remote ancestors were neither brutes nor innocents, but complex beings whose experiments in living have much to teach us. Welcome news as disaster looms in every direction.
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Psychologist Explains Why Economists—and Liberals—Get Human Nature Wrong
Feb 11, 2020
Jonathan Haidt deploys insights from moral psychology to help us see ourselves and each other more clearly
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In which MIT decided to teach micro first so as to make economics more relevant
Dec 4, 2013
I’ve already blogged on how undergraduate education evolved at MIT in the postwar era here and here, but since Mike Konczal and Paul Krugman make the case that, to bring introductory economics closer to the real world, macro should be taught before micro as Samuelson did in the first 13 editions of his Economics textbook, it may be worth returning to it.
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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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INET and reforming economic education: can history help?
Apr 13, 2011
One INET project is to “reconnect the teaching of economics with the working of the actual economy,” which is to begin with a reform of the undergraduate curriculum.
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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.