History
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A New Economic Paradigm to Fight Populism
Jun 15, 2016
Globalisation was once considered a doctrine of salvation - but it has produced too many losers and created a breeding ground for heralds of simplistic truths. It is high time for a new doctrine.
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Global Money: A Work in Progress
Jun 12, 2016
A dollar-denominated global economy means the Fed is at once the bankers bank and government bank, as well as both U.S. central bank and global central bank — managing that hybrid is the challenge of our time
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Who's talking about getting fiscal?
Jun 10, 2016
What we’re reading: Recent statements from the IMF and the OECD highlight a growing call for new economic policy thinking in response to the specter of long-term stagnation
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Britain’s EU scorecard, a dissent on China stimulus, and the productivity puzzle
Jun 7, 2016
What we’re reading: A weekly scan of published items relevant to the Institute’s work
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Rebirth of the School: Why We Invested in the History of Economic Thought Website
Jun 2, 2016
The Institute is proud to welcome the revival of an indispensable resource for those seeking to understand the evolution of economics in context
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Learning to think about shadow banking
May 30, 2016
Why most economists did not see the 2008 crash coming
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A Teachable Moment for the Economics Profession?
May 27, 2016
What we’re reading: A weekly scan of published items relevant to the Institute’s work
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Introducing the Symposium on Neoliberalism
May 26, 2016
Is Neoliberalism a fixed set of ideas, or even an identifiable political movement?
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Working Paper Series
Ethics vs. Ethos in US and UK Megabanking
May 2016
Company law in the US and UK fails to acknowledge that authorities’ propensity to rescue giant banks from the consequences of insolvency assigns taxpayers a coerced and badly structured equity stake in too-big-to-fail institutions.
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This is Water (or is it Neoliberalism?)
May 25, 2016
A meditation on Vercelli, Vernengo and Levitt & Seccareccia
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How Neoliberalism Threatens Democracy
May 25, 2016
Professor Wendy Brown engages in an in-depth exploration of the corrosive effect of approaching education, law, politics and governance through the lens of neoliberal economic rationality.
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Commentary
Who is afraid of Neoliberalism? A comment on Mirowski
May 2016
While the Neoliberal movement’s concerns extend into a broad political reorganization of society, it remains intimately connected with neoclassical economic thought.
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Tunisia in Turmoil: When Supply-Side Orthodoxy Meets an Angry Citizenry
May 23, 2016
Mass protests challenging the government to focus on job-creation rather than on market liberalization and trade deals may carry a cautionary message to Western policy makers, too.
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How the term “mainstream economics” became mainstream: a speculation
May 23, 2016
From 1958 onward, the back cover of Paul Samuelson’s bestselling textbook, Economics, showed a family-tree of economists. The diagram’s evolution, in particular its use of the term “mainstream economics,” reflected, and, I speculate, influenced how economists came to perceive the structure of their discipline.
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The History of Economic Thought website is reborn
May 21, 2016
I am pleased to announce that the History of Economic Thought Website is back. I am thankful for the assistance of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which has supported its revival and made it possible.