Microeconomics

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

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

The social and medical sciences depend on randomised control trials – though they face more assumptions and biases than commonly thought.

In the face of  laissez-faire capitalism at home and resurgent nationalism across the globe, INET offers an innovative look at the causes of—and solutions for—the problems that ail a fissuring world economy.

The prevailing wisdom that aggregate demand shocks determine short-run cyclical fluctuations around a supply-determined equilibrium growth rate and an associated equilibrium unemployment rate (or NAIRU) has been called into question by various strands of literature over the last few decades. Specifically, a recently revived literature on hysteresis finds significant persistence in the effects of negative aggregate demand shocks (e.g. Blanchard et al. 2015; Fatás and Summers 2016; Martin et al. 2015).

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

As globalization proceeds rapidly, manufacturing industry in most of developed countries declined steadily.