Economics Profession
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Ideology is Dead! Long Live Ideology!
Aug 12, 2019
Economists like to say they’re immune from ideological influence. Our research shows the opposite.
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Change in the Economics Profession Can Come From the Outside
Aug 7, 2019
Progressive movements can and should push for pluralism in economics
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Antitrust and the Consumer Welfare Standard
Jul 16, 2019
The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy
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Working Paper Series
American Gothic: How Chicago Economics Distorts “Consumer Welfare” in Antitrust
Jul 2019
The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy.
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After Over Three Decades, Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington. Here’s How He Did It.
Jul 1, 2019
The idea that businesses are run to maximize profits for shareholders is just plain wrong, says William Lazonick
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Are Economists Blocking Progress on Climate Change?
Jun 24, 2019
By promoting unrealisitc models, economists have become part of problem rather than the solution
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Why We Must Resist Conventional Economic Wisdom
Apr 17, 2019
Dani Rodrik says that when ideas become conventional wisdom, we are blind to their limitations
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INET Panel @ Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2019
ConferenceApr 15, 2019
Excellence and Conformity in Economics: how to set the incentives straight
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Why We Need Diversity and Pluralism in Economics, Part II
Mar 22, 2019
INET talks to Jayati Ghosh and Marina Della Giusta
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Why Economists Failed as “Experts”—and How to Make Them Matter Again
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
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Diversity and Excellence: Not A Zero Sum Game
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.
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Why We Need Diversity and Pluralism in Economics, Part I
Mar 8, 2019
INET talks to Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Claudia Goldin, and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
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Fighting for Gender Equality in Economics Is Not Nearly Enough
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?