292 Results for “COVID 19”
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Article
Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but So Far We Don’t Have One
Apr 19, 2024
The American state has lost the capacity for concentrated and decisive effort at the forefront of technology and the associated science.
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Webinars and Events
Resolving Global Vaccine Inequity
ConferenceInnovation, Capabilities and Governance
Apr 11–12, 2024
The development of COVID-19 vaccines within a year of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 was an unprecedented triumph of scientific research that saved millions of lives. In contrast, the lack of global coordination to manage intellectual property, technology transfer, production, financing, and distribution of vaccines led to excess deaths and losses in economic output.
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Article
Europe's New Fiscal Rules Harm Working People and Women, Boost Right-Wing Radicals
Apr 5, 2024
Behind bogus promises of job creation and economic growth lies a dangerous agenda to shred social safety nets.
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Video
Hysteresis and the Economy
Mar 27, 2024
Do temporary economic shocks like the COVID-19 recession create lasting effects on the economy?
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Article
Can Baby Bonds Fight the Wealth Gap and Racial Inequality? Connecticut Aims to Find Out.
Feb 27, 2024
Connecticut is the first state to fund and enact a baby bonds program, inspiring more states to create their own plans. Can it make a difference?
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Article
Unhappy New Year: How Austerity is Making a Comeback in Berlin and Brussels
Jan 4, 2024
Germany’s debt brake and EU fiscal rules will make it well neigh impossible for EU countries to fund the investments needed to decarbonize their economies.
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Article
How GM’s $10-Billion Buyback May Ice Its EV Transition
Dec 18, 2023
Reindustrialization vs Financialization
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Article
What Does Mustard Gas Have in Common with Crypto and Blockchain?
Nov 20, 2023
In his new book, Let Them Eat Crypto, Peter Howson cautions that the technologies are not just fraudulent but causing indefensible harm to both humanity and the planet.
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Podcasts
One Earth, One Family, One Future
Nov 2, 2023
Rohinton Medhora (INET’s Board Chair, member of our Commission on Global Economic Transformation, and Distinguished Fellow at CIGI) discusses global social healing, India and the G20 with INET President Rob Johnson.
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Article
In the Footsteps of Ptolemy: The ‘Science of Monetary Policy’ and the Inflation of 2021-2023
Oct 9, 2023
The impenetrability of this continuously expanding Ptolemaic New Keynesian paradigm is maddening
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Article
What the UAW and Everyone Else Need to Know About CEO Pay
Oct 2, 2023
What is GM CEO Mary Barra’s take-home pay? (It’s more than you are being told)
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Article
What Has the World Learned from COVID-19? So Far, Not Nearly Enough
Sep 12, 2023
By all accounts infection rates have ebbed. But were we good or were we lucky?
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Article
The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility
Aug 21, 2023
Stock buybacks as a mode of predatory value extraction
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Article
Central Banks and Income Distribution: Does the Taylor Rule Push Up Rentier Incomes?
Jul 27, 2023
The effect of monetary policy on the functional distribution of income
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Article
We Need a Double Pronged Public-Private Approach to Food Security
Jul 19, 2023
Dr. Agnes Kalibata, President of AGRA, on how the Ukraine conflict has been a big wake-up call for many African governments, the huge importance of investing in soils, and her frustration at the slow pace of climate mitigation.
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Article
Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive
Jul 13, 2023
By reducing our reliance on chemical fertilizers, policymakers could turn today’s food crisis into a genuine opportunity towards shifting subsidies from agribusiness-led to agroecological-led farming systems
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Video
The Debt Puzzle
Jun 7, 2023
How do governments accumulate such high levels of debt without constant major crises? Who is paying the price?
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Article
A New Approach for Estimating Firm-Level Cyber-Risk Exposure
May 22, 2023
Using computational linguistics to estimate firm-level cyber risk exposure based on quarterly earnings conference calls.
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Article
¿Otra crisis de la deuda en el Sur Global? Economista revela la clave para entenderla.
Apr 17, 2023
Martín Guzmán, ex ministro de Economía de Argentina, explica cómo el rol del poder debe ser central en la investigación económica, especialmente cuando se trata de deuda soberana.
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Article
Another Debt Crisis in the Global South? Economist Reveals the Key to Understanding It
Apr 17, 2023
Martin Guzman, Argentina’s former Minister of Economy, explains how the role of power should be central to economic research – especially when it comes to sovereign debt.
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Video
Basic Income: Poverty v. Power
Apr 5, 2023
Daniel Zamora Vargas discusses his new book “Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income” co-authored with Anton Jäger.
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Video
Basic Income: A Global History
Apr 5, 2023
Anton Jäger discusses his new book “Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income” co-authored with Daniel Zamora Vargas.
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Article
People’s Deposits Are Safe From Bank Failures But Not From the Economic Fallout
Mar 27, 2023
Bank failures don’t threaten most deposits, but they do threaten jobs
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Article
Why is America So Anti-City? It Holds Back the Entire Country.
Mar 20, 2023
A new book by economist Richard McGahey examines the country’s anti-urban structure and ideology, offering insights on how American cities can thrive.
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Podcasts
The Big Myth of Market Fundamentalism
Mar 16, 2023
Historians Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University) and Erik Conway (Caltech) talk to Rob about their just released book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.
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Article
Now Is the Time for More Ambition From Multilateral Development Banks and Their Shareholders
Mar 14, 2023
Vera Songwe, Chair of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility, and former Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, on the multiple crises facing African countries.
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YSI Event
YSI Conference on Debt Sustainability
YSI
ConferenceApr 28–30, 2023
Discussions on the key conceptual and policy themes for sovereign debt sustainability with a view to proposing possible policy reforms.
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Article
The Two Global Consensuses That Defined the Development Paradigm in Ghana Are Under Threat
Feb 27, 2023
Honorary Vice President at IMANI Center for policy and education, Bright Simons, on the challenges Ghana is facing
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Podcasts
Survival of the Richest
Feb 16, 2023
Oxfam’s Economic Justice Director, Nabil Ahmed, and Oxfam International’s Inequality Policy & Advocacy Lead, Max Lawson, discuss their latest Global Inequality Report, which highlights the accelerating pace at which the world’s billionaires have increased their wealth exponentially in recent years. They also discuss the ways in which governments can reverse this trend through taxation.
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Article
The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022: A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
Feb 2, 2023
Why the conventional tools of the Phillips Curve, NAIRU, potential output, and money-supply growth are useless
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Working Paper
Working PaperWhat Next for the Post Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?
Jan 2023
The principal threat to economic stability currently is the overhang of debt, both private and public.
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Working Paper
Working PaperMyth and Reality in the Great Inflation Debate: Supply Shocks and Wealth Effects in a Multipolar World Economy
Jan 2023
A critical reappraisal of the case in favor of monetary tightening pressed by inflation hawks is overdue.
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Article
Il faut une analyse désagrégée des conséquences de la guerre en Ukraine sur les économies en Afrique de l’Ouest
Dec 13, 2022
Entretien avec Gilles Yabi, directeur exécutif du Think Tank ouest-africain WATHI, sur la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique
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Article
Sick with “Shareholder Value”: US Pharma’s Financialized Business Model During the Pandemic
Dec 6, 2022
Evidence sharply contradicts PhRMA’s contention that its member companies need unregulated drug prices to generate profits that they then reinvest in drug innovation.
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Podcasts
The Misguided Forces Driving Conflict Escalation Between the US and China
Dec 1, 2022
Yale Law School Fellow Stephen Roach, discusses his just-released book, Accidental Conflict. Roach explores how much of the adversarial nationalist rhetoric in both China and the USA is dangerously misguided and more a reflection of each nation’s fears and vulnerabilities than a credible assessment of the risks they face.
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Article
Dollar Dominance is Financial Dominance
Nov 23, 2022
What Strategies can Break This Dependency?
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Article
Trump and the Republican Base: A Machine Learning Approach (Revisited)
Nov 7, 2022
Economic issues are a primary part of Trump’s appeal to his base
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Article
Collateral Damage From Higher Interest Rates
Nov 5, 2022
Why to Be Wary of Another Volcker-Type Monetary Tightening
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Working Paper
Working PaperInflation in the Time of Corona and War: The Plight of the Developing Economies
Nov 2022
Fears of ‘stagflation’ have come back to haunt macroeconomic policy makers all over the globe
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Article
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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Article
America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
Aug 8, 2022
Researchers find that the nation had become an outlier among other rich countries in mortality rates long before the pandemic – and that Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.
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Article
The Fed Tackles Kalecki
Jun 30, 2022
Ratner and Sim’s “Who Killed the Phillips Curve – A Murder Mystery”
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Article
Why The Ukraine Crisis Will Make Little Difference to Dollar Supremacy
Jun 24, 2022
The depth of the U.S. securities market helps ensure dollar hegemony
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Article
The World Trade Organization After the 12th Ministerial Conference
Jun 22, 2022
New mandates must beget new organizing
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Podcasts
Quality of Life for Billions of People is at Stake
Jun 16, 2022
World-renowned economist and inequality researcher Thomas Piketty in conversation with Rob Johnson, about Piketty’s just-released book, A Brief History of Equality.
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Article
A Playlist That Conjures the Ferocity and Flair of Detroit
Jun 16, 2022
How can we develop a deeper, more human and multifaceted understanding of the past?
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Article
Why What’s Going on Right Now at the WTO Matters
Jun 10, 2022
Besides the crucial COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, far more is at stake at this ministerial than is generally known.
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Working Paper
Working PaperInflation in the Time of Corona and War
Jun 2022
Are there alternative, less socially costly, ways to bring inflation down?
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Article
Inflation in a Time of Corona and War
Jun 6, 2022
Evidence-based answers to the main (policy) questions concerning the return of high inflation
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Article
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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Article
How Economics Found Science …and Lost its Subject Matter
Apr 27, 2022
Re-evaluating the “equality-efficiency” trade-off
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Podcasts
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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Article
Data Competition Won’t Protect Your Privacy
Apr 13, 2022
Regulators propose democratizing data and encouraging competition to reign in Big Tech. But such moves won’t go far enough in protecting user privacy. New: A reply to critics
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Article
Letter to SEC: How Stock Buybacks Undermine Investment in Innovation for the Sake of Stock-Price Manipulation
Apr 1, 2022
A comment on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rule “Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization”
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Podcasts
Investing in Compassion
Mar 24, 2022
The tradition of abandoning our elderly populations needs to end. Sarita Mohanty talks with Rob Johnson about her work at the SCAN Foundation, and the critical importance of combating “ageism” to strengthening our society. Learn more: https://www.thescanfoundation.org/
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Research
Addressing COVID-19 in Africa: Challenges and Leadership in a Context of Global Economic Transformation
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Article
Our Economic System is Making Us Mentally Ill
Mar 18, 2022
The neoliberal economy was supposed to bring about a utopian world order. Instead, it gave us crippling psychological stress and social breakdown. How can we ever recover?
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Article
Paper: Fragility and Resilience in Green Development in Africa: Intersections and Trade-offs
Mar 17, 2022
Fragility and Resilience in Green Development in Africa: Intersections and Trade-offs
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Article
We Need to Learn From the Fight Against HIV/AIDS—and Its Mistakes—to Tackle COVID-19
Mar 16, 2022
An interview with INET Global Commissioner Winnie Byanyima
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Article
Special Drawing Rights and Elasticity in the International Monetary System
Mar 15, 2022
How could the new SDR allocation help developing countries?
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Article
Top Economist: America’s Racist Economy Getting Worse, Not Better
Mar 8, 2022
Lynn Parramore explores Peter Temin’s new book on the country’s two economic histories: progress for whites, slavery and segregation for Black people. He warns of a second-tier global future unless they come together.
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Article
Where Did You Go, Vice President Joe?
Mar 4, 2022
President Biden’s first SOTU Address was a missed opportunity to say what he knows to be true: Stock buybacks manipulate the market and leave most Americans worse off
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Podcasts
The Pandemic's Billionaire Variant
Mar 3, 2022
Max Lawson, head of Oxfam International’s Inequality Policy program, discusses Oxfam’s latest inequality report, “Inequality Kills,” which highlights the extreme growth in wealth of the billionaire class during the pandemic and how this has had a direct effect on the health and survival of the world’s bottom 50%.
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Article
Paper: Demography, Inclusive Growth and Youth Employment in Africa
Jan 26, 2022
The youth paradox is accentuated by the effects of Covid-19, while the concrete short- and medium-term prospects for young people remain unclear.
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Paper: Regional and Continental Integration in Africa in the Covid-19 Era: New Drivers and Perspectives
Jan 20, 2022
A review of regional integration in Africa
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Podcasts
COP26: The Paralysis from Above
Jan 13, 2022
In a replay of INET Live’s webinar, following the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow last December, Richard Kozul-Wright of UNCTAD, Patrick Bond of the University of Johannesburg, and author Maude Barlow discuss the disproportionate impact climate change has on the developing world and the ways to best address it.
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Article
Automotive Value Chains in a Brave New World
Jan 11, 2022
The pandemic and electrification are shaking the foundations of the auto industry
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Podcasts
The Pandemic's Opportunities and Challenges for Racial Justice
Dec 16, 2021
Prosperity Now CEO Gary Cunningham talks to Rob, in a wide-ranging discussion, about the many ways in which the pandemic has affected racial justice and injustice and how we might overcome the divisions and polarizations that we currently confront.
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Article
Warning: COVID-Fueled Mental Health Crisis Will Be a Costly Second Pandemic
Nov 30, 2021
It’s time to prioritize mental well-being to avoid far-reaching economic and social consequences.
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Article
The Pandemic Triggered the Questioning of Current Governance Systems in Africa
Nov 30, 2021
An interview with Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)
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Webinars and Events
The Paralysis From Above: COP26 and Beyond for the Developing World
WebinarDec 1, 2021
For several weeks, representatives of governments across the globe gathered in Glasgow to discuss plans for climate mitigation and adaptation. But the meetings were dominated by representatives of the world’s most advanced economies, often to the detriment of the places where the majority of the world’s population lives: the developing world.
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Article
Experts on Inflation: Prognosis, Political Fallout and Who’s Really to Blame
Nov 18, 2021
Economists Claudia Sahm, Servaas Storm, and Pia Malaney share their views on the problem that has everyone freaking out. Here’s what it all means for your pocketbook – and your democracy.
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Article
2020’s Knife Edge Election: An Analysis
Nov 16, 2021
Covid and BLM protests were key to Biden’s victory
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Article
Trade and Development Backstory: The Struggle Over the UNCTAD 15 Mandate
Nov 10, 2021
Governments and civil society organizations must work together with UNCTAD to provide developing countries the tools — and the transformed governance regimes — they need to “build back better” through these challenging and difficult times.
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Podcasts
Naïve Market Solutions for Climate Change Will Intensify the Looting of Africa
Nov 4, 2021
Patrick Bond, sociology professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, discusses the urgent need for climate reparations for Africa, in light of the COP26 climate summit, and why market solutions will not work to address the problems Africa is currently facing. Part 1 of 2.
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Article
Dr John Nkengasong: A Collective Regional Approach Has Shown Its Power
Nov 2, 2021
An interview with John Nkengasong, Director of Africa CDC, about how a coordinated response to COVID-19 in Africa has proven to be effective
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Article
Nimrod Zalk: “Let’s Be Strategic in Our Thinking About Trade”
Oct 19, 2021
An interview with the Industrial Development Advisor in the Office of the Director-General of the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC).
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Article
Welcome to the Emergency Room. A Wall Street Honcho Will Decide Your Treatment.
Oct 12, 2021
Doctors and medical experts say private equity firms and profiteering corporations are putting American lives at risk and compromising the practice of medicine.
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Article
Mzukisi Qobo: The Old Mantra About Growth Has Reached Exhaustion
Oct 7, 2021
In this interview, Dr. Folashadé Soulé and Dr. Camilla Toulmin speak with Pr. Mzukisi Qobo. Pr Qobo is the Head of the Wits School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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Article
When Knightian Uncertainty Becomes Obvious
Oct 7, 2021
Stock-Price Volatility During the Pandemic
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Article
ER Doctor: Private Equity is Killing American Healthcare
Sep 23, 2021
Dr. Ming Lin complained about Covid-19 safety measures at his hospital. He got fired because a giant Wall Street firm called the shots.
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Article
Nanjala Nyabola: COVID-19 and Africa: Techno-solutions won’t save us from the problems we face
Sep 21, 2021
In this interview, Dr. Folashadé Soulé and Dr. Camilla Toulmin discuss with Nanjala Nyabola, a writer and researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya. Nanjala’s work focuses on the intersection between technology, media, and society. She is currently the Director of Advox, the digital rights programme at Global Voices. Nanjala has held numerous research associate positions including with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), and other institutions, while also working as a research lead for several projects on human rights broadly and digital rights specifically around the world.
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Webinars and Events
Additional Resources
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Article
Why Aren’t Libertarians Protesting the Freedom-Busting Texas Abortion Law?
Sep 8, 2021
On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.
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Podcasts
Water: The New Gold
Sep 7, 2021
The COVID pandemic highlighted the deepening water crisis. “Do we understand that over half the population of the world doesn’t have a place to wash their hands with soap and warm water?” says water warrior Maude Barlow.
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Video
Back to the Future of Learning
Aug 25, 2021
If we save education, can we save humanity?
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Article
“We Are Running a Giant Experiment on Children”: Covid Deniers Put Kids at Risk
Aug 19, 2021
“Just learn to live with it” policies subject children to an experiment with a systemic disease that does serious and lasting damage, warns former NASA and DARPA technologist
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Article
Libertarians and the Vaccine: Give Me Liberty and Give Them Death
Aug 9, 2021
If libertarians wish to maintain their self-centered fixation on their own freedoms without considering others, let them do so — in indefinite quarantine from the rest of us.
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Podcasts
The Obscene Obstacles to Global Vaccine Distribution
Aug 2, 2021
Lori Wallach, of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and Jayati Ghosh, economics professor at UMass Amherst, discuss how first world countries are protecting pharma companies’ exorbitant profits, at the expense of vaccinating people living in the Global South and thereby also endangering everyone in the world.
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Article
CIGI Celebrates 20 Years of Research and Expert Analysis
Jul 30, 2021
In 2021, the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) celebrates 20 years of contributing research and expert analysis to global policy making.
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Article
Productive Bubbles
Jul 28, 2021
Occasionally, financial speculation fastens onto transformational technologies that have the potential to create a genuinely new economy.
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Article
New Ecuadorian Government Teams Up with Powerful International Lobbies to Rejoin Investment Treaties Prohibited by the Constitution
Jul 14, 2021
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) allow foreign capitalists to run roughshod over the rights of Ecuadorians
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Article
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Counted Only Eight Strikes in 2020, Payday Report Counted 1,200
Jul 13, 2021
In the era of COVID and digital movements, strikes look radically different from traditional labor strikes
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Article
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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Article
Kandeh Yumkella: COVID-19 Has Helped People Understand the Vital Connection Between Energy and Health.
Jun 22, 2021
Dr Kandeh Yumkella is a development economist, founder and CEO of The Energy Nexus Network (TENN), a regional hub for sustainable energy solutions and serves as a Member of Parliament in Sierra Leone. Previously Dr Yumkella served as Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and founding chief executive officer for the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Initiative (2013–2015). He also served as Director-General of the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO, 2005–2013), mobilising global consensus for SDG7 and 9. He is a member of the High-Level Group of the Africa-Europe Foundation, co-chair of the Africa Europe Foundation Strategy Group on Energy, and member of various international advisory bodies, boards, and commissions.
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Podcasts
Nobody is Safe if Someone is Unsafe
Jun 18, 2021
INET at the Trento Economics Festival 2: A dialogue between Jayati Ghosh, Rohinton Medhora, Joseph E. Stiglitz, coordinated by Robert Johnson The world won’t emerge from the pandemic until the pandemic is controlled everywhere, and this is a special concern because of the new mutations that are likely to arise where the disease is running its course. So too, the world won’t have a robust economic recovery until at least most of the world is on the course to prosperity. Global growth is far more muted now than then, and inward-looking policies in some of the nations where growth has been restored have resulted in an increase in their trade surplus, attenuating the global impact of their recovery.
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News
Rob Johnson and other commissioners sign a public letter on the importance of coming together to fight climate change
Jun 8, 2021
“Overcoming the COVID-19 crisis and ensuring a rapid and equitable economic recovery are only two of the challenges we must meet in 2021. This year will also be a crucial one for achieving the goal of net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by mid-century.” — Project Syndicate
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Article
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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Podcasts
Are Intellectual Property Rights Exacerbating the Pandemic in India?
Jun 1, 2021
Arjun Jayadev, economics professor at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India, and Achal Prabhala, coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, discusses the urgency of waiving intellectual property protections for vaccines, particularly in light of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic in India and other developing countries.
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News
David Michaels Michael’s INET funded research is featured in SciTech Daily, Focus Technica, Medical Xpress, & Scienmag
May 24, 2021
“This survey gives a voice to US health care workers who have been on the frontlines of COVID-19,” David Michaels, a professor of environmental and occupational health at the George Washington University and former administrator of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, said. “Health care workers have valuable first-hand knowledge about this pandemic and this report offers recommendations that could help keep the U.S. on a steady course now and in the future.” …. Michaels and Melissa Perry, a professor and chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, provided guidance in producing the report. The McElhattan Foundation and the Institute for New Economic Thinking provided financial support for the survey and the report.” — George Washington University