Technology & Innovation

“Dual Economy” models were developed to explain growth in the developing world. Now they appear necessary to comprehend the high income trap that afflicts the world’s most developed economies.

INET gathered hundreds of new economic thinkers in Edinburgh to discuss the past, present, and future of the economics profession.

The Festival for New Economic Thinking is a collaborative initiative of several organizations, and aims to bring together those who seek to improve how economics is taught, studied and practiced. 

The Idea That Businesses Exist Solely to Enrich Shareholders Is Harmful Nonsense

The Theory of the Firm, Financial Flows, and Economic Performance

The YSI Economics of Innovation Working Group in partnership with the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology is hosting a YSI Conference on “Innovation, Institutions and Governance”.

Why we should worry about job quality, not quantity—or robot overlords

The prevailing stock market ideology enriches value extractors, not value creators

The YSI Latin America Working Group is hosting a workshop at the United Nations ECLAC Summer School on Latin American economies.

Price gouging in the US pharmaceutical drug industry goes back more than three decades.

The Young Scholars Initiative is hosting its regional convening for Latin America in Mexico City from 17-21 June. 

Conventional wisdom has it that the primary function of the stock market is to raise cash for companies for the purpose of investing in productive capabilities. The conventional wisdom is wrong.

The Young Scholars Initiative and its working groups will be hosting meetings and discussions in and around the 2017 Trento Festival of Economics. 

A look at America’s strange and dangerous approach to medicine, and how to fix it