Education

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

Journal rankings are a rigged game. The blacklist of history of economic thought journals isn’t a fluke nor a conspiracy—it exposes how citation rankings really work

The Koch brothers scandal at George Mason University

The economist had to learn moral philosophy before anything else—an underpinning that’s still helpful for today’s students

In the face of  laissez-faire capitalism at home and resurgent nationalism across the globe, INET offers an innovative look at the causes of—and solutions for—the problems that ail a fissuring world economy.

The renowned feminist economist discusses the importance of heterodoxy, radicalism, and social justice to the discipline

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

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

McCloskey discusses her career, critiques of economics, and offers advice for young economists.

Mason doesn’t think teaching contending economic theories is effective, and sees the objective of introductory economics courses as teaching students basic tools to understand economic terminology and standard relationship between cause and effect.

“The humility to accept that economic propositions cannot be universal would save us from self-defeating arrogance.” Economist Amit Bhaduri adds his perspective to our Experts on Trial discussion.

In a recent interview at the INET offices in New York, Anwar Shaikh provided a background to the work and his life in this quest.

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.

In the age of Adam Smith, an economics that masqueraded as natural science and excluded the human condition actually suited the interests of the landed and the wealthy