249 Results for “stiglitz”
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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
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
India’s Leadership and Global Challenges of Climate and Finance
Oct 26, 2023
If we’re going to address environmental catastrophe, we need to support each other on a global scale. Rob Johnson checks in with Adair Turner about his work, and practical solutions to address the climate crisis.
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Podcasts
The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today
Sep 13, 2023
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank with a storied history, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.
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Article
The Mythology of Horizontal Merger Efficiencies
Aug 31, 2023
Economists had to distort economic theory to fashion their merger “efficiency” arguments
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Article
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Antitrust Arguments “Chicago Style”
Aug 17, 2023
ProMarket and the Consumer Welfare Standard An output increase is not sufficient to increase welfare. Allocation—how goods are distributed—matters.
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Article
Central Banks, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis
Jun 29, 2023
The tough policy choices ahead for confronting the climate crisis
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Article
Profit Inflation Is Real
Jun 15, 2023
Inflation and corporate profits, a further discussion
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Podcasts
Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity
May 16, 2023
Simon Johnson, the co-author of the just-released book Power and Progress (co-authored with Daron Acemoglu), discusses the book, what new technologies hold in store for us, and how societies might better manage and govern them.
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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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Podcasts
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Feb 7, 2023
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Podcasts
A Time Bomb in Global Finance
Jan 12, 2023
A Bank for International Settlements study says 60+ trillion dollars of off-the-books currency swaps could be a profound, systematic risk. Rob Johnson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.
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Article
Time Bomb in Global Finance
Jan 4, 2023
A Bank for International Settlements study says 60+ trillion dollars of off-the-books currency swaps could be a profound, systematic risk. Robert Johnson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.
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Podcasts
The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility
Nov 17, 2022
University of Bonn and Sciences Po economics professor Moritz Schularick talks to Rob about the soon-to-be-released book, Leveraged, which he edited based on papers from an INET-sponsored conference. The book takes a close look at what we have learned about the costs and causes of financial fragility since 2008.
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Podcasts
The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
Oct 20, 2022
Financial Times columnist and author Rana Foroohar talks about her new book Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
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News
Rohinton Medhora Appointed INET Board Chair
Oct 4, 2022
Medhora has served on INET’s Board since 2012 and is a distinguished fellow and former president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
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Article
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA): A Brief Assessment
Sep 15, 2022
Servaas Storm’s commentary for an INET symposium on the Inflation Reduction Act
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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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Podcasts
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
Jun 9, 2022
Cambridge University’s professor of American History Gary Gerstle discusses his most recent book, about how the neoliberal order came about, why it is faltering, and the indeterminacy of what comes next.
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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
On the Origins of Economic Cycles (and the Appeal of Keeping Models Simple)
Mar 22, 2022
An alternative to Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models
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Research
Addressing COVID-19 in Africa: Challenges and Leadership in a Context of Global Economic Transformation
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Podcasts
How We Are Going to Live Together Is Up for Grabs
Mar 17, 2022
Anand Giridharadas, writer and author of the book, Winners Take All, discusses the multiple crises we are currently facing, how they could provide an impetus for real change, and how US and global elites are failing to live up to the challenge.
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Podcasts
How Davos Man Devours the World
Jan 18, 2022
Peter Goodman, New York Times correspondent and author of the just-published book, Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World, talks to Rob about how inequality is not inevitable, but has been engineered through the political process by selling us a false idea of what is possible.
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Podcasts
The Antidote to the Wall is the Bridge
Jan 6, 2022
Professor Glenn Hubbard, professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, talks about his just-released book, The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake, and how society and policymakers can help those who are left behind in the wake of today’s competitive world.
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News
OSF and INET Complete 12 Year Collaboration on New Economic Thinking
Jan 5, 2022
The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and the Open Society Foundations (OSF) announced that OSF has made a gift of $23.5 million to INET. The grant marks the completion of the organizations’ 12-year collaboration.
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Podcasts
What Is the Janeway Institute?
Nov 10, 2021
“I was considering what I was going to do, [and] what I decided I could not do, was stay within the confines of mainstream academic economics.” Rob Johnson talks with INET Co-Founder Bill Janeway about his exciting new project at Cambridge University.
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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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Podcasts
The US Federal Government's Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis
Oct 21, 2021
From LBJ to the present, the federal government has knowingly continued to expand the US fossil economy, not passively but as a major active player, endangering the future of young people.
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Podcasts
A New Vision for Economics Education
Sep 21, 2021
The education of the next generation of economists too often ignores the real crisis we face today: climate change, inequality, and financial instability. Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman seek to address this problem in their book, Economy Studies, which outlines a practical road map for effectively connecting pluralism of core academic material to real world events, values, and the great questions of our time.
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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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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
The One-Earth Balance Sheet
Jul 23, 2021
Getting the whole spectrum of governments, academia and civil society to track “natural capital” would help create shared efforts toward solving shared problems like the climate crisis.
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Podcasts
Myths and Landmarks in US Economic History
Jul 19, 2021
Economic historian and INET board member Richard Vague, talks about his latest book, The Illustrated Business History of the United States, which reveals a number of misconceptions and myths about the development of the US economy
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Podcasts
The Vicious Cycle of Mass Incarceration and Racial Injustice
Jul 6, 2021
MIT economic historian Peter Temin discusses parts of his forthcoming book, focusing on the history of mass incarceration of uneducated Blacks and how it has created a permanent class of poor Black Americans
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Podcasts
The Rise and Fall of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class, part 2
Jul 2, 2021
Umass Lowell Economics professor William Lazonick, outlines the history of how government policy and economic conditions contributed to the rise and fall of a Black blue-collar middle class. Part 2 takes a closer look at the role of finance and stock buybacks and what can be done to reverse the trend towards growing inequality.
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Article
Carbon Taxes: A Good Idea But Can They Be Effective?
Jun 28, 2021
A global carbon tax alone will not be enough to significantly reduce CO2 emissions
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Podcasts
Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
Jun 24, 2021
Kenneth Cukier, senior editor at The Economist and co-author of the book Framers, talks about how mental models, or frames, enable humanity to find the best way through a forest of looming problems.
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Podcasts
Digital Transformation, Opportunity and Social Sustainability
Jun 21, 2021
INET at the Trento Economics Festival 3: A dialogue between Michael Spence and Robert Johnson The governance of technology is a new challenge. The Recovery Plans is encouraging the digital transformation of our economies. An acceleration of technological change is bound to deeply affect labor markets and income distribution. While labor-market adaptation is likely to stave off permanent high unemployment, it cannot be counted on to prevent a sharp rise in inequality.
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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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Podcasts
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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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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Podcasts
The Return of the State
May 27, 2021
Tito Boeri, professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan, and Scientific Director of the Trento Economics Festival (June 3-6), talks about the meaning behind this year’s festival topic, The Return of the State. INET is organizing several panels at the festival this year featuring Mark Carney, Joe Stiglitz, Mike Spence, and Jayati Ghosh.
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Podcasts
Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
May 20, 2021
Financial Times columnist and US editorial board chair Gillian Tett talks about her new book, Anthro-Vision, which makes the case for how anthropological intelligence can help us make better sense of the contemporary world.
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Conference Session
Nobody is Safe if Someone is Unsafe
Jun 5, 2021 | 02:00
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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Webinars and Events
INET at the Trento Economics Festival
ConferenceThe Return of the State: Businesses, Communities, Institutions
Jun 3–6, 2021
Watch INET at the Trento Economics Festival online
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Article
Carbon Pricing Isn’t Effective at Reducing CO2 Emissions
May 10, 2021
And electric vehicles don’t do a lot better
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News
Joseph Stiglitz and Anton Korinek’s INET-funded research is cited in the NY Times
May 5, 2021
“In their December 2017 paper, “Artificial intelligence, worker-replacing technological progress and income distribution,” the economists Anton Korinek, of the University of Virginia, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, of Columbia — describe the potential of artificial intelligence to create a high-tech dystopian future. Korinek and Stiglitz argue that without radical reform of tax and redistribution politics, a “Malthusian destiny” of widespread technological unemployment and poverty may ensue.” — Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times
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News
The NY Times cites INET’s report from the Commission on Global Economic Transformation
May 3, 2021
“Yet notable critics like Joseph Stiglitz and Jayati Ghosh, an economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, see woefully insufficient production by Western drug companies as a major roadblock to universal vaccination.” — Walden Bello, New York Times
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Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One
Apr 13, 2021
Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a “Green Industrial Policy” or, indeed, a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”
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Podcasts
The Future of Economics
Mar 25, 2021
Tiger Gao, brilliant young host of the Princeton University podcast, Policy Punchline, interviews Rob Johnson about INET’s aims, the function of economics in academia, and the relationship between Silicon Valley culture and the latest technologies, among other things.
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Article
The Standard Economic Paradigm is Based on Bad Modeling
Mar 8, 2021
The New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) is a straightjacket for macroeconomics
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Podcasts
How Digital Technology and the Pandemic will Accelerate Transformations
Mar 8, 2021
Economics Nobel laureate Michael Spence discusses the many changes that await us in the wake of digital technology developments and the pandemic, which are combining in unexpected ways
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The Long-Overdue Revolution in Economic Thinking
Mar 1, 2021
University of Texas economist James K. Galbraith engages in a wide-ranging discussion of the many ways in which conventional economics has failed us, ranging from how to manage the post-pandemic economy, the role of finance, to the problems of inequality and climate change.
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Podcasts
The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal
Feb 25, 2021
UMass Amherst professor and PERI Co-Director Robert Pollin discusses his latest book that he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, about the Global Green New Deal and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in addressing the climate crisis
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Article
Housing and the American Dream: Is A House Still a Home?
Feb 23, 2021
Single-family home-ownership—elusive for many today—is an aspiration we ought to abandon
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Podcasts
Changing the Conversation on the Climate Emergency
Feb 22, 2021
David Fenton, the founder of the progressive PR firm Fenton Communications, takes a close look at what needs to be done to improve how we talk about the climate emergency so that everyone listens and acts accordingly
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Podcasts
Can Biden Successfully Govern?
Feb 18, 2021
American Prospect editor Robert Kuttner talks about how the faith in Democracy and in the state have suffered tremendously over the past two decades, how it can be restored, and what impact this loss of faith will have on the Biden presidency
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Article
Artificial Intelligence Could Mean Large Increases in Prosperity—But Only for a Privileged Few
Feb 18, 2021
Labor-saving advances in AI may undo the gains from globalization and pose new challenges for economic development
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesArtificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development
Feb 2021
Labor-saving advances in AI may undo the gains from globalization and pose new challenges for economic development
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Podcasts
Linear Relationship Between Money and Election Outcomes Continued in 2020
Feb 16, 2021
INET’s Research Director Thomas Ferguson discusses the latest analysis he and his colleagues have conducted of campaign spending in the 2020 election cycle. The result dispels the myth that money has lost significance and that Republicans were at a significant disadvantage.
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News
Project Syndicate features Joseph Stiglitz INET funded research
Feb 15, 2021
“The Biden administration must put a high enough price on carbon pollution to encourage the scale and urgency of action needed to meet the commitments it has made to Americans and the rest of the world. The future of our planet depends on it” — Nicholas Stern & Joseph Stiglitz, Project Syndicate
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Podcasts
Robert Borosage: There Is No Going Back to Normalcy
Feb 1, 2021
The co-founder of the Campaign for America’s Future, Robert Borosage, discusses the many potential pitfalls the Biden administration must deal with, from a new cold war with China, to the persistence of market fundamentalism.
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Podcasts
What Can Sanders Do as Budget Chair?
Jan 20, 2021
As Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Bernie Sanders can force votes on Medicare for All and cuts to the military budget. He will face opposition from the GOP and within the Democratic Party. Rob Johnson was a Senior Economist for the Budget Committee and Chief Economist for the Senate Banking Committee. He joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
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Article
The Promise and Limits of Carbon Pricing
Nov 24, 2020
Carbon pricing still has the potential to be a powerful tool contributing to emissions reductions, but it is clearly no panacea.
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YSI Event
YSI 2020 Plenary: New Economic Questions
Young Scholars Initiative Virtual Plenary
YSI
PlenaryNov 6–15, 2020
What are the 100 most pertinent economic questions facing our global societ?
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Podcasts
Dean Baker
Sep 28, 2020
Dean Baker, senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks about how geopolitical and economic tensions between the US and China benefit powerful elite sectors in the US, but are bad for working people.
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Podcasts
Eisuke Sakakibara
Sep 17, 2020
Former Deputy Finance Minister of Japan, Eisuke Sakakibara, contrasts Japan’s and the US’s response to the pandemic and talks about the different roles and economic strategies of some of the world’s largest countries.
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Article
It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”
Sep 11, 2020
Why freeing American households and businesses from crippling private debt would be a boon to the economy. Article reposted from DemocracyJournal.org.
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Video
Globalization's Discontents
Sep 9, 2020
The promise of globalization is built on a lie, designed to spread risk while concentrating reward.
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News
INET & Luohan Academy Announce Partnership to Bring INET Video to China
Jul 8, 2020
Luohan Academy will share content while working with INET to plan future co-sponsored events, seminars & more
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Article
Big Pharma Wants to Pocket the Profits From a COVID Treatment You Already Paid For
Jul 7, 2020
Gilead’s shareholders want exorbitant profits from Remdesivir, even though it was the public that enabled its development.
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Podcast
Brian Barnier
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Podcasts
Michael Pettis
Jun 19, 2020
Michael Pettis, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, talks to Rob Johnson about how trade wars really are class wars and how nationalist conflict is shaping US-China relations and fracturing Europe.
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Podcast
Zach Carter
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Podcast
Michael Sandel
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Podcast
Evan Osnos
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Article
Benno Ndulu: The pandemic has laid bare the pivotal roles of both the informal sector and SMEs
Jun 3, 2020
An interview with Pr Benno Ndulu, the former Governor of the Bank of Tanzania, for INET’s series on COVID-19 and Africa
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Podcast
Yanis Varoufakis & Danae Stratou
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Arjun Jayadev & Achal Prabhala
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Anna Deavere Smith
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Rana Foroohar
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Camilla Toulmin
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Nelson Barbosa
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Dani Rodrik
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George Akerlof: Economics’ Sins of Omission
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Webinars and Events
Pandemic Relief Efforts
Webinarwith Joseph Stiglitz - 12pm EDT / 9am PDT
May 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust us into a new reality, and any course we set now will have huge and lasting repercussions on public health and the economy.
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Podcast
Peter Bofinger
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Andrew Sheng
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Danny Quah
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Jeremy Lent
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Article
Patents vs. the Pandemic
Apr 24, 2020
With the COVID-19 death toll rising, we should question the wisdom and morality of an IP system that silently condemns millions of human beings to suffering and death every year.
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Podcasts
Joseph Stiglitz
Apr 22, 2020
Nobel laureate economist and Professor at Columbia University Joseph Stiglitz talks to Rob (his former graduate student in the Princeton Econ Department and member of the 2009 UN Stiglitz Commission) about what the pandemic has revealed about the U.S. economy’s shortcomings, and how a proper response to other crises—like climate change—could actually stimulate economic growth and innovation.
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Podcast
John Ralston Saul
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Jayati Ghosh
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Roman Frydman
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Joseph Stiglitz
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Michael Spence
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Article
Private Equity Buyouts in Healthcare: Who Wins, Who Loses?
Mar 25, 2020
As we face a coronavirus-induced health and economic crisis of uncertain duration, policy makers should be particularly concerned about private equity’s heightened use of debt to buy out healthcare providers and take them private, with no regulatory oversight.
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Article
Sunshine and Gloom in San Diego
Jan 16, 2020
The AEA and the Crisis of Expertise