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Academic economics focuses too much on narrow mathematical models that may work on paper but do not address today’s challenges. Through curriculum reform, online classes, videos, and other tools, we give students, teachers, and leading thinkers reality based insights necessary to navigate our world.

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  1. Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crises

    Taught by Anwar Shaikh

    The aim of the two-semester sequence is to explore a coherent alternative to neoclassical and post-Keynesian theory that does not rely in any way on concepts of utility maximization, rational choice, rational expectations, or perfect/imperfect competition.

  2. After the Crisis

    Taught by Anatole Kaletsky

    Many thought the financial crash was a final blow to capitalsim. Why does it still reign supreme? Anatole Kaletsky outlines the shape of things to come.

  3. Taking the Con Out of Economics? The Limits of Negative Darwinism

    Featuring George Akerlof, Marcella Corsi, Carlo D'Ippoliti, James Heckman, Jakob Kapeller, and Kevin Young

    Oct 22, 2017 | 12:00

    What Do Citations Actually Measure in Economics and How Should Economic Journals and Department Review Committees Use This Data? 

  4. INET President: Rebuilding A Moral Economics

    Featuring Rob Johnson

    Oct 21, 2017 | 11:15

    Rob Johnson kicks off INET’s “Reawakening” conference with his take on how economists can win back the trust of a world that has rejected experts

  5. Report of the Economics Curriculum Committee Task Force

    Featuring Richard Bronk, Ha-Joon Chang, Barbara Craig, Brad Delong, Kevin Hoover, Joyce Jacobsen, John Kay, Felix Martin, Daniel H. Neilson, Christian Westerlind Wigstrom, and Steve Ziliak

    Apr 8, 2011 | 01:15—02:00

  6. What Can Economists Know? Rethinking the Foundations of Economic Understanding

    Featuring Nancy Cartwright, Roman Frydman, Gerd Gigerenzer, and Roger Guesnerie

    Apr 11, 2012 | 11:00—02:00

    The economics profession stands on the fragile foundation of presuppositions adopted by professional agreement rather than as a result of empirical observation.

  7. Welcome Remarks

    Featuring Harald Braun, Rob Johnson, Thomas Bernes, and Bernhard Lorentz

    Apr 11, 2012 | 07:00—07:25

  8. What is the Role of Psychological Considerations in Economics?

    Featuring David Tuckett, Inske Pirschel, Gert Poenitzsch, and Cars Hommes

    Apr 4, 2013 | 09:50—11:30

  9. What Kind of Theory to Guide Reform and Restructuring of the Financial and Non-Financial Sectors?

    Featuring Franklin Allen, Sheila Dow, Axel Leijonhufvud, and Joe Stiglitz

    Apr 8, 2010 | 09:50—11:40

  10. New Economic Thinking

    Featuring Wendy Carlin, David Colander, Oscar Landerretche, Perry G. Mehrling, and John Smithin

    Apr 11, 2014 | 03:45—05:00

  11. How Did Bad Economics Crowd Out Good Economics? Evidence from Citation Analysis

    Featuring Carlo D'Ippoliti, Len Seabrooke, and Jakob Kapeller

    Apr 10, 2015 | 06:45—08:15

  12. Teaching Economics

    Featuring Wendy Carlin, Marc Lavoie, and Robert Skidelsky

    Apr 10, 2015 | 07:00—08:30

    This panel covers the teaching of economics at the university level.

  13. Economics Curriculum for Activists

    Featuring Louison Cahen-Fourot, Laurene Tran , Claire Jones, and Yuan Yang

    Apr 10, 2015 | 06:00—07:30

  14. Hungary Is Facing Dangerous Amendments to Its Education Law

    Apr 3, 2017

    The Institute for New Economic Thinking, a global network of distinguished economists, is deeply concerned by the news of proposed legislation in Hungary’s National Assembly that would prevent the free functioning of the Central European University.

  15. Liberté, Égalité, Fragilité

    Plenary

    Apr 8–11, 2015

    The Institute for New Economic Thinking held its sixth Annual Conference from April 8 to April 11, 2015, in collaboration with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris.