Your average economics textbook presents the neat image of a discipline with many useful conceptual paradigms for viewing the world. But it almost never gives any sense of how these ideas developed.

And as it turns out, the actual history of economics, like that of every science, is much messier.

That was Bruce Caldwell’s message in his recent address to the Southern Economics Association in November. (Click below to download a PDF of the speech as prepared for address). Read more

As the year comes to a close, the Financial Times released its annual list of the Best Books of the year. And right at the top was INET co-founder William H. Janeway's new book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, which the FT named one of the the best economics books of 2012.  Read more

“You can’t understand finance if you don’t put law front and center.”

So says Katharina Pistor in her innovative keynote address at INET's False Dichotomies conference, which was co-hosted with the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, Canada on November 16-17th, 2012. Read more

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