Macroeconomics
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What is Economic Success?
Oct 11, 2013
“You are now leaving the world as you know it.”
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Trade Deals Must Allow for Regulating Finance
Oct 2, 2013
World leaders who are gathering for the APEC summit next week had hoped to be signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The pact would bring together key Pacific-rim countries into a trading bloc that the United States hopes could counter China’s growing influence in the region.
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The End of 'Financialization'
Sep 18, 2013
The failure of Lehman Brothers on 15 September 2008 marked the beginning of the end of the world’s love affair with financialization.
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Simon Johnson: The Problem of Too Big to Fail Is Even Bigger Than Before 2008
Sep 17, 2013
Simon Johnson, Professor at MIT and former chief economist of the IMF, calls for much higher capital requirements for big banks.
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Europe: Is the Union over?
Sep 10, 2013
Let Them Eat Credit: Has Financial Capitalism Failed the World?
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Did Capitalism Fail? The Financial Crisis Five Years On
Jul 24, 2013
Did the global economic collapse in 2008 stem from structural failures in the capitalist system?
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Should China Deregulate Finance?
Jul 11, 2013
Is China is “too big to fail.”?
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Dirk Bezemer - Debt: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Jun 26, 2013
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Why We Need To Rethink Economics
Jun 25, 2013
In this short interview, Institute co-founder George Soros tackles the question at the heart of the Institute’s mission: What’s wrong with economics and what can we do to change it?
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On the Link between Inequality, Credit, and Macroeconomic Crises
Jun 12, 2013
To what extant do existing mainstream models properly address issues such as heterogeneity and interactions, which are considered central ingredients to understand economic crises as emergent, endogenous phenomena.
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Growth, Debt, and Past versus Future: A Visual Elaboration
Jun 5, 2013
How does debt influence growth?
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Economics Needs Replication
Apr 23, 2013
The recent debate about the reproducibility of the results published by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff offers a showcase for the importance of replication in empirical economics.
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Reinhart and Rogoff Respond to Criticism
Apr 16, 2013
INET Advisory Board members Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff today issued a response to recentcriticism of their paper “Growth in a Time of Debt.” Their response in full is below.
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Conference paper
Central Banks in Balance Sheet Recessions: A Search for Correct Response
Apr 2013
These are extraordinary times for central banks. Near zero interest rates and massive liquidity injections are still failing to bring life back to so many economies in the developed world.
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Conference paper
Economics and the Powerful: Faulty Analysis, Economic Advice, and the Imperatives of Power
Apr 2013
“Look! Up there in the sky! What is it? Is it a plane? Is it a bird?” No, it’s a distraction from the robbery that is taking place in broad daylight on the ground.