122 Results for “ADAM SMITH”
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The Dollar System in a Multi-Polar World
May 5, 2022
The multipolar financial world is here. The United States can survive it – but only with major political and economic changes at home. It’s time to start thinking about what those need to be.
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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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The Problem of Ownership in Capitalism
Apr 7, 2022
Peter Barnes, the entrepreneur and author of the recently published book, Ours: The Case for Universal Property, talks about how new conceptions of property - a universal commons - could fundamentally transform capitalism to make it more ecologically and socially sustainable.
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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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Finally, an Economist Takes on the Topic of Power
Jan 16, 2024
Alessandro Roncaglia has mulled the topic of power over his long and distinguished career – a topic most economists avoid. His new book explores the historical dynamics of power and asks how we can change its distribution today.
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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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The Economics and Politics of Social Democracy: A Reconsideration
May 14, 2020
To able to deal with these consequences, our crisis response now should not lock us in into a permanent state of austerity, greater inequality and heightened vulnerability to future health calamities. New-old social democratic solutions are needed more than ever before.
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Want to Grow the Economy? Might Be Time to Unleash the Devil.
Oct 27, 2015
Is an ancient financial taboo keeping us from prosperity? Adair Turner, author of a new book on global finance, explains.
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The Ukraine War and the Madness of Militarism
Apr 28, 2022
Author and peace activist Norman Solomon talks about the double standards in US foreign policy that have smoothed the path for Russia’s inexcusable invasion of Ukraine. The role of the military-industrial-complex in the US is one of the main reasons we lack a single standard for the use of military force and human rights, says Solomon.
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A Response to John Kay: Elements of an Evolutionary Paradigm
Nov 17, 2011
INET published a paper, written by John Kay, that deals with the relationship between economics and the world we live in. The Map Is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics spells out methodological critiques of economic theory in general, and of DSGE models and rational expectations in particular.
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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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Profound Changes in Economics Have Made Left vs. Right Debates Irrelevant
May 31, 2016
New economic thinking has the potential to make political debates far more productive
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The Return of Asia in the 21st Century
Apr 14, 2022
Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Kishore Mahbubani, discusses his latest book, The Asian 21st Century, in which he relates US decline to the rise of plutocracy and Asia’s renewed rise - after having fallen behind in the last 200 years - to its growing sense of dynamism, optimism, and diversity. This is the 200th episode of the podcast Economics and Beyond with Rob Johnson.
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Does Nature Have Rights?
Aug 16, 2022
Ruskin scholar Jeffrey Spear, author of “Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and his Tradition in Social Criticism,” discusses how the insights of a key 19th-century thinker can help us build a new paradigm for protecting the planet – and save us from ourselves.
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Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics
May 30, 2018
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean