Economics Profession

The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum explains the role Democratic presidents, from Kennedy to Obama, in moving economic policy to the right

Economics needs to better incorporate other social sciences

Progressive movements can and should push for pluralism in economics

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

The economist had to learn moral philosophy before anything else—an underpinning that’s still helpful for today’s students

Mason doesn’t think teaching contending economic theories is effective, and sees the objective of introductory economics courses as teaching students basic tools to understand economic terminology and standard relationship between cause and effect.

In a recent interview at the INET offices in New York, Anwar Shaikh provided a background to the work and his life in this quest.

Explore your curiosity in economics in an open and critical community.

Joe Earle, co-founder of The Post-Crash Economics Society, member of Rethinking Economics and co-author of the Econocracy, explains why his group is trying to democratize economics as a conversation and a policy–making process.

Is Market Capitalism simply an accident of certain factors that came together in the 19th and 20th centuries? Does the innovation of economics require a new economics of innovation? Is the study of economics deeply affected by the incentive structures faced by economists themselves, necessitating a study of the “economics of economics”?

Marc Lavoie discusses the methodological foundations of heterodox economics, and offers a very different model of money and credit, firms and pricing, consumer theory, effective demand and employment and growth theories.

Tania Singer on the key importance of understanding preferences and behavioral change.

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?

Joseph Stiglitz at the Institute’s debut conference in Cambridge, UK (2010).

Bill Mitchell presents a coherent analysis of how money is created, how it functions in global exchange rate regimes, and how the mystification of the nature of money has constrained governments, and prevented states from acting in the public interest.