How global scientific mobility drives innovation—and what’s at stake when migration is restricted by war, politics, or policy.
Article | Government & Politics, Trade
Trump ran in both 2016 and 2024 on a promise to reverse the deindustrialization caused by globalization and free trade, using tariffs as his main tool. But the critical question now is: Can it work?
By Pia Malaney
Video
Drug development can better serve public needs—especially in neglected diseases—by reimagining the balance between government, private industry, and nonprofit models.
Featuring Fred Ledley
Article | Business & Industry
Explosive New Book Argues Facebook Is a Global Engine of Harm and Corruption. Is Reform Possible?
Sara Wynn-Williams, defying Facebook’s attempts to silence her, reveals the company’s toxic culture and global damage, exposing unethical practices and a profit-at-any-cost approach. The key question she leaves us with: How can this be changed?
Article | Government & Politics
Leadership in the Senate: New Boss Same as the Old Boss?
To understand politics in America, follow the money. When we do, we find good cause to expect McConnell’s shadow to live long beyond his tenure.
Article | Macroeconomics
Trump and Wealth-Price Inflation: Still Running in the Background All the Time
By Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm
Article | Government & Politics, Health
Article | Business & Industry, Technology & Innovation
Breaking the Moat: DeepSeek and the Democratization of AI
By Pia Malaney
Article | Government & Politics, Health
Phillip Alvelda, a scientist and entrepreneur with past roles at NASA and DARPA, sounds the alarm on cuts that threaten the innovative capacities that have made America a global powerhouse.
Article | Macroeconomics
By Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm
Video
Economics can either fuel conflict or pave the way to lasting peace, the choice is ours.
Featuring James K. Boyce
Working Paper | Business & Industry, Government & Politics, Laws
Welfare economists and moral philosophers have shown that the Consumer Welfare Standard is biased in favor of wealthy individuals and corporations—the very powers the antitrust law is supposed to regulate.
By Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush
The history of the political relations between Hitler and the NSDAP leadership and the German “coal industrialists” from 1926 to 1933
Working Paper | Environment, Macroeconomics
Why the E-DSGE Framework Is Not Fit for Purpose and What to Do About It
By Yannis Dafermos, Andrew McConnell, Maria Nikolaidi, Servaas Storm, and Boyan Yanovski
Working Paper | Business & Industry, Technology & Innovation
The decisions we make now about the governance of AI will have profound implications for the future of our economy and society.
By Anton Korinek and Jai Vipra
A major factor in the decline of inflation is the simple fact that America’s workers were, in general, unable to raise their nominal wages in line with the rise in the cost of living
By Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm
Working Paper | Finance, Government & Politics, Health
Medicare negotiators need to have a deep understanding - both theoretical and empirical - of the learning processes involved in developing a drug to negotiate a price that is fair.
By Öner Tulum and William Lazonick
Apr 10, 2025
Webinars and Events
with THOMAS FERGUSON, RESEARCH DIRECTOR, INET
Mar 31, 2025
Webinars and Events
The conference, which is part of our Academy’s ‘Future of Humankind’ initiative, will provide a global forum of discussion to scholars engaged in analytically understanding the evolution of world dynamics as a process involving a plurality of mechanisms, viewpoints and intersecting trajectories.
Mar 21, 2025
Webinars and Events
We invite doctoral students and early career researchers/assistant professors (within 7 years of their Ph.D.) to a two-day conference that aims to foster cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogues with attention to SDG goals for India.
Mar 17, 2025
Webinars and Events
The IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University, in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and its Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is organising a conference on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience in Agriculture: Strategies for Sustainable Development in South Asia
Feb 24, 2025
Webinars and Events
As the world grapples with rapid technological advancements, demographic shifts, environmental challenges, and governance transformations, new forms of inequality are emerging.
Mar 11, 2025
Webinars and Events
Understanding India’s Northeast from Emerging Perspectives
Apr 08, 2025
Apr 07, 2025
YSI projects are collaboratively organized by members of the community to explore topics in new economic thinking. Projects may be held virtually (discussions, webinars, reading groups) or in person (workshops, pre-conferences). Learn more about YSI here
