November 2012

Big business has corrupted economics

Big business has corrupted economics - Guardian UK

You know the country is in a financial mess when even establishment figures such as Rachel Lomax are calling for revolutionary thinking

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INET Hiring Postdoctoral Fellows

The Institute for New Economic Thinking has openings for 2-4 Postdoctoral Fellows. The Institute is particularly interested in candidates whose work lies within our core research areas: financial instability, economic inequality, and innovation. Fellows pursue their own research while contributing actively to one or more of INET’s many research and education initiatives. Appointment is for one year but may be renewable. PhD must have been received within the past three years. Start date is flexible, salary competitive. The positions will be based in INET's offices in New York. Read more

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A Post-Keynesian Pioneer Meets the University of Chicago

Vital economic debate is alive and well in Chicago.

Post-Kenyesian economist Paul Davidson recently was invited to the University of Chicago to give a lecture on Keynes’s solutions to current economics crises – solutions that are very much at odds with the traditional approaches associated with Chicago School economics. Read more

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Krugman and Stiglitz: What's the Future of Economic Thinking?

At INET’s Conversation on the State of the Economy with Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, we asked two Nobel laureates and got two different answers.

Krugman began by giving a nod to young economists and then pointed to a focus on empirics and humility when it comes to believing your own models. Read more

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