Finance

Modern monetary theorists ignore how their policies could hurt developing countries

Learn to read, understand, and evaluate professional discourse about the current operation of money markets at the level of the Financial Times.

Asset markets are indispensable in harnessing society’s diverse views and insights about future business performance. But those views are shaped as much by emotion and crowd mentality as by rational expectations.

We can land planes safely at crowded airports, yet we can’t manage to make our financial system safe. Why?

Central bankers pursue a “neutral” rate that doesn’t exist

Chaired by Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence, INET has assembled a global team of leaders and scholars calling for new thinking & new rules for the world economy

U.S. GDP accounting underestimates intangible capital, overstates financial capital, and is all but oblivious to the the erosion of human and social capital. A serious growth slowdown is coming.

Neoclassical economics dismisses the role of money and the state in the economy. Keynes scholar Robert Skidlesky says it’s time for a re-evaluation.

The current international monetary system is costly, unfair, and risky. “Economic nationalism” and deregulation in the U.S. will make it worse. A multilateral alternative is needed.

Reactions to the size of the proposed plan rely on discredited assumptions and betray a fundamental misunderstanding of economic growth—and austerity 

“We don’t look after each other at all,” says Jeffrey Sachs on America today