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The Institute for New Economic Thinking joined the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in holding its fifth Annual Conference from April 10 to April 12, 2014 in Toronto.

The World Economic Roundtable seeks to help the business, investment, and policy communities understand ongoing changes in the world economy and to promote a discussion of ideas that can advance the goal of a widely shared global prosperity.

Organized by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi in collaboration with the Institute of New Economic Thinking, New York, the aim of the Law Economics Policy Conference series is to bring together legal, economic, and public policy thinkers to consider a variety of real world issues in India in a holistic manner.

Prof. Oliver Hart delivers the opening lecture of INET and ITT Bombay’s Samvaad lecture.

Prof. Oliver Hart and Justice A. K. Jayasankaran Nambiar in conversation

What will empower a worker to be able to make greater demands on a profitable economy or employer? The answer may be summed up in one word: leverage.

Stigmatizing and relegating an activity to the shadows doesn’t improve anyone’s welfare

Bill Janeway explains why “efficiency is the enemy of innovation,” and how venture capitalists and the state advance technological change

In recent decades, market values have crowded out non- market norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?

Along the entire “innovation chain” — from research and development, to production and commercialization — government and private sectors have very different roles to play.

In an Al Jazeera documentary “In Search of the Great American Job”, Institute scholar William Lazonick offers some arch insights into the relationship between financialization — particularly the “shareholder value” ideology in corporations, which drives the transfer of profits to shareholders through stock buybacks — and job creation and inequality.

John Kay shares findings from his new book, Other People’s Money, and his insights on changing the financial sector.

Here we are, some 7 years after the Great Financial Crisis, and not one senior banking executive has gone to jail.

This paper presents an historical analysis of the antitrust laws.

Price gouging in the US pharmaceutical drug industry goes back more than three decades.