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  1. Ideology is Dead! Long Live Ideology!

    By Mohsen Javdani and Ha-Joon Chang

    Aug 12, 2019

    Economists like to say they’re immune from ideological influence. Our research shows the opposite.

  2. Change in the Economics Profession Can Come From the Outside

    Featuring Carlo D'Ippoliti

    Aug 7, 2019

    Progressive movements can and should push for pluralism in economics

  3. Antitrust and the Consumer Welfare Standard

    By Mark Glick

    Jul 16, 2019

    The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy

  4. Working Paper Series

    American Gothic: How Chicago Economics Distorts “Consumer Welfare” in Antitrust

    By Mark Glick

    Jul 2019

    The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy.

  5. After Over Three Decades, Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington. Here’s How He Did It.

    By Lynn Parramore

    Jul 1, 2019

    The idea that businesses are run to maximize profits for shareholders is just plain wrong, says William Lazonick

  6. Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?

    By Lynn Parramore

    Jun 24, 2019

    By promoting unrealisitc models, economists have become part of problem rather than the solution

  7. Why We Must Resist Conventional Economic Wisdom

    Featuring Dani Rodrik and Rob Johnson

    Apr 17, 2019

    Dani Rodrik says that when ideas become conventional wisdom, we are blind to their limitations

  8. INET Panel @ Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2019

    Conference

    Apr 15, 2019

    Excellence and Conformity in Economics: how to set the incentives straight

  9. Why We Need Diversity and Pluralism in Economics, Part II

    By ​Orsola Costantini and Giulia Zacchia

    Mar 22, 2019

    INET talks to Jayati Ghosh and Marina Della Giusta

  10. Why Economists Failed as “Experts”—and How to Make Them Matter Again

    By Martin Wolf

    Mar 12, 2019

    Economists should stop pretending to be scientists and go back to the core of the discipline—as a field of inquiry and way of thinking

  11. Diversity and Excellence: Not A Zero Sum Game

    By Besiana Balla, Devika Dutt, Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Jenny Tue Anh Nguyen, Lilian Rolim, and Reinhard Schumacher

    Mar 11, 2019

    As young scholars, we have formulated a new plan for fostering diversity in both identity and scholarly thinking in economics—preconditions for academic rigor.

  12. Why We Need Diversity and Pluralism in Economics, Part I

    By ​Orsola Costantini and Giulia Zacchia

    Mar 8, 2019

    INET talks to Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Claudia Goldin, and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

  13. Fighting for Gender Equality in Economics Is Not Nearly Enough

    By ​Orsola Costantini and Giulia Zacchia

    Mar 1, 2019

    The field of economics is aggressively sexist and biased against new and unconventional ideas. Revelations about gender and ethnic discrimination show the need to reorient the whole system toward more freedom, respect, openness, and pluralism. But how?