Laws
-
Explorations in New Economic Thinking
Apr 10, 2014 | 11:00—12:30
-
The Economics of Radical Uncertainty
Apr 10, 2014 | 11:00—12:30
-
Pressures on Pensions
Apr 10, 2014 | 07:00—08:30
-
Reflexivity and Knightean Uncertainty: Implications for Economics
Apr 10, 2014 | 02:45—04:00
-
Beyond Austerity: Default, Debt Restructuring or Recovery?
Apr 10, 2014 | 07:00—08:30
-
Speculation and Innovation
Apr 10, 2014 | 04:15—05:30
-
What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?
Apr 10, 2014
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?
-
What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?
Apr 10, 2014 | 03:15—05:00
-
Human After All
PlenaryApr 10–12, 2014
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.
-
Conference paper
The Persistence of a Reckless Banking System
Apr 2014
The fall of 2008 was scary. For most people, the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy resembled a major earthquake with strong aftershocks. Official narratives have promoted the image of the crisis as a rare, unpreventable and unforeseen natural disaster, the “100-year flood.” Policymakers emphasize the extraordinary measures they have taken to prevent the system from collapsing and to support recovery since.
-
Conference paper
Is Innovation a Good Thing? The Innovation Gap in Pink and Black
Apr 2014
Innovation, the commercialization of invention, is both desirable and necessary for growth and higher living standards in modern economies. Innovation’s contribution to the economy is being measured increasingly more precisely, and its contribution has been assessed aseconomically important and growing.
-
Have We Repaired Financial Regulations since Lehman?
Apr 9, 2014 | 11:45—01:15
-
Do Private Returns Produce the Social Returns We Need?
Apr 9, 2014 | 10:00—11:30
-
Innovation: To What Purpose?
Apr 9, 2014 | 02:15—04:00
-
Conference paper
Debt Restructuring versus Monetary Easing: The Eurozone Experiment
Mar 2014
Since the outbreak of the Greek debt crisis at the end of 2009, the Eurozone finds itself in an unprecedented debt crisis.