Education

Racial inequalities of wealth and income are pervasive. This episode of Debt Talks will feature a conversation with four prominent experts on the persistence of racial inequalities of wealth and income and the role of financial markets in shaping them.

Colleges and universities need to be saved, not only from financial ruin, but also, all too often, from themselves.

Economist Gordon Lafer describes a race against the education technology industry to do what’s right for America’s kids

The younger generation, already saddled with student debt and uncertain jobs, will pay a high price as the crisis unfolds.

Inequality, in many ways, may be the biggest question of our times. And yet it is a topic that is still underexplored in conventional economics curricula.

Stock buybacks are giveaways for greedy investors at the expense of everyone else.

Economists make what we do seem complicated, says Ha-Joon Chang. It’s not.

Hundreds of young scholars from all over Asia are coming together in Hanoi to discuss new economic thinking, present their research, and work with over 30 senior scholars. Join us there and become a part of YSI’s global community!

Economist Marie Mora discusses the deep economic crisis that has afflicted Puerto Rico for years

Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?

This year the YSI participation at the Trento Festival of Economics will be different. There will be no panels with talks that are too long, actually, there will be no talks at all… Welcome to The Trento Experiment!

Treating education like a market is all the rage. But it hurts students, and our society.

What is the relationship between pluralist economics and interdisciplinary socio-economics? How does pluralist academic teaching need to be structured in economics or business administration in order to be successful? What should interdisciplinary socio-economic study programs look like, and how should teacher training in the field be designed? What kinds of new study materials, textbooks, and teaching methods are required?

This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments.

Steve Keen: “What an education in economics does is make you into a zealot