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Article
Charles Kindleberger, the Dollar System, and Financial Crises
Feb 17, 2025
A review of Perry Mehrling’s book, Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System, and an exploration Mehrling’s discussion of the 1982 correspondence between Charles Kindleberger and Ben Bernanke examining their theories concerning financial crises.
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Podcasts
Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan
Sep 11, 2020
Charles Goodhart, professor emeritus of the financial markets group at the London School of Economics, and Manoj Pradhan, founder of the research firm Talking Heads Macro, talk to Rob about their just released book, The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
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Webinars and Events
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Al), Privacy, and Governance
ConferenceNov 30–Dec 2, 2024
This conference aims to explore important issues of economics of AI, good governance, humanization of AI technologies, privacy, considerations of creative thinking and imagination, and take a comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities of AI technologies.
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Article
Inequality Represents a Wasted Opportunity for Poverty Reduction
Oct 4, 2018
Economists who dismiss inequality as a problem secondary to poverty miss the point: Inequality is part of what drives poverty
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Article
Contemplating the Age of Hyper-Uncertainty
Dec 19, 2016
In the 40th anniversary year of John Kenneth Galbraith’s Age of Uncertainty, the 1970s look remarkably stable in comparison with today’s turbulent world
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News
Rob Johnson, Pia Malaney, and other INET scholars have signed a letter in the FT in response to a call for a return to austerity
Jun 15, 2021
“Moreover, too little government spending can increase company bankruptcies and lead to less investment in research and development, hurting the supply side of our economies — potentially exacerbating inflationary pressures. The EU has gone through a decade of demand stagnation, performing well below its productive potential. Inflationary forces of the 1970s are no longer intact, not least because of declining labour bargaining power, changing demographics, high inequality and private debt overhang. Without concerted fiscal expansion to scale-up investment and protect the vulnerable, aggregate demand will remain low and standards of living will stagnate. Instead of fetishising fiscal discipline, we should prioritise more important social, economic and environmental outcomes — like creating well-paid green jobs, lifting millions out of poverty and implementing green infrastructure projects.” — From Frank van Lerven and others, Financial Times
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Podcasts
Eileen Appelbaum & Rosemary Batt
Sep 1, 2020
Eileen Appelbaum, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Rosemary Batt of Cornell University, talk about an INET-supported study on the dramatic impact that private equity funds are having on everyone’s medical bills and on the healthcare industry as a whole
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Podcasts
Elaine Brown, Pt. 2
Jun 26, 2020
In the second of a two-part interview, Rob Johnson talks to author, activist, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman Elaine Brown about her music, her housing work and entrepreneurship in Oakland, CA, and the political moment.
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Video
Economics Isn't Settled
Aug 30, 2023
Why is the History of Economic Thought important?
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Article
The Second Coming? Trump vs. Biden
May 17, 2024
How have the macroeconomic problems in the US blinded many participants and observers to the actual state of the American economy as the election approaches?
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Video
Has China Won?
May 20, 2020
The geopolitical showdown between the United States and China is both inevitable, and avoidable.
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Podcasts
Saikat Chakrabarti: Biden's Many Options for Creating Real Change
Jan 14, 2021
New Consensus president Saikat Chakrabarti talks about what Biden can do, even without Congress, to make a real difference in the lives of ordinary Americans
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Book
Edward A. Tenenbaum and the Deutschmark
How an American Jew Became the Father of Germany’s Postwar Economic Revival
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Podcasts
Music, its Commercialization, and Politics
May 6, 2021
Activist and poet John Sinclair and Rob Johnson discuss the early days of the counterculture, Sinclair’s role in MC5, and the transformation of music from art to commodity when the music industry’s commercial power blossomed in the early 1970s.
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Podcasts
Unshackling India for Economic Revival
Feb 24, 2022
Ajay Chhibber, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute of International Economic Policy, George Washington University, and India’s first Director General of Independent Evaluation with the status of Minister of State in 2013-14, discusses his co-authored book, Unshackling India, about what needs to happen for India’s economy to take off.