Big data reveals where opportunity thrives—and where it vanishes—offering powerful tools to reverse the decline in economic mobility.
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?
Video
Who Controls the Future of Work?
AI has the potential to fuel historic levels of wealth concentration, leaving workers behind while a handful of companies profit. Or we can choose policies that steer us toward shared prosperity. The future is still up to us.
Featuring Simon Johnson
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
Consumer demand by America’s most affluent citizens is driving consumer spending, and consumer spending, in turn, is the main force keeping inflation so high
By Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm
Article | Business & Industry, Technology & Innovation
Breaking the Moat: DeepSeek and the Democratization of AI
By Pia Malaney
Article | Economics Profession
How Diversity and Pluralism Build Knowledge: The Case of Economics
By Sheila Dow
Podcasts | Government & Politics, Inequality & Distribution, Technology & Innovation
Beyond Industrialism: Building Communities That Work for People
Article | Macroeconomics
A review of Perry Mehrling’s book, Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System, and an exploration Mehrling’s discussion of the 1982 correspondence between Charles Kindleberger and Ben Bernanke examining their theories concerning financial crises.
Article | Business & Industry, Technology & Innovation
By Pia Malaney
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
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
Mar 05, 2025
Webinars and Events
The conference aims to examine the complex interplay of housing, law, economics, and spatial justice in an unequal world, and we welcome scholars and practitioners to participate.
Feb 17, 2025
Webinars and Events
Following a successful inaugural Meeting of Young Minds in 2024, the Second annual Meeting of Young Minds on 17 – 19 February 2025 is geared to be an exciting and engaging gathering of future leaders in the field of economics.
Mar 07, 2025
Feb 21, 2025
Feb 14, 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
