Humanities

Economist Morton Schapiro, president of Northwestern University, and his colleague, literary critic and Slavic studies scholar Saul Morson, argue that—contrary to popular belief—studying the humanities is the key to not getting outsourced.

Ed Pavlić discusses the role of music in communicating suffering and resistance in the African-American experience

Engaging in music, literature and the arts is essential for understanding context and human behavior—which economists so often miss

McCloskey discusses her career, critiques of economics, and offers advice for young economists.

In recent decades, market values have crowded out non- market norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?

Eurocentric modernism has unhinged us from our human nature, argues Rajani Kanth in his new book

A transition from the conventional policy of “redistributing income” to “redistributing membership”, could promote economic integration across communities and intergenerational mobility.

Notes from the Institute’s Director of Research on some significant papers and contributions produced in 2016 under the INET rubric 

Extract from the keynote speech by the Rev. Dr. William Barber III at the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference on race and economics in Detroit on November 11

Frank Dikötter explores previously classified Chinese leadership documents, and attempts to set the record straight.

Since Aristotle the question about the potential relationship between economic inequality and democratic changes has been studied and debated – but scientifically our ability as researchers to assess and understand how such complex social phenomena may be related is much more limited than recognised.

Literary productions offer illustrations of economic theory in action.

This research project explores the underlying limits—especially of the social and economic sciences—in identifying causalities including, among other aspects, the strong epistemological and statistical limitations of and assumptions behind the methods applied.

This paper will address the problem of how we might gain economic understanding from literature. It will look at the aesthetic form of literature as being an efficient vehicle for economic thinking.