Conferences

INET in Berlin
Paradigm Lost: Rethinking Economics and Politics

April 12-15, 2012: INET hosts its third annual plenary conference in Berlin, the eye of the economic hurricane. The challenges posed by inequality, unemployment, climate change, and global financial disarray call for new economic thinking that is open, credible, and relevant in the current world; that offers vision amid uncertainty, and that fosters cooperation where there is fragmentation. More...

YSI Launch Conference
Bridging Silos, Breaking Silences: New Responses to Instability and Inequality

November 4-6, 2011: At Desmond Tutu Center in New York, the inaugural conference of INET's Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) brought together a mix of students, young scholars, and senior researchers. The idea was to use exposure to disciplinary breadth to help broaden thinking with academic economics. More...

Bretton Woods Conference
Crisis and Renewal: International Political Economy at the Crossroads

April 8-11, 2011: Over 250 experts gathered in the historic Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods -- the site of the 1944 conference that launched the World Bank and established a new post-war global economic architecture -- to discuss global reconstruction in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis. More...

Conference in Budapest
Toward an Alternative Macroeconomic Theory

September 6-8, 2010: INET sponsored its second conference that drove to the heart of one of the most important questions facing economics today: How can we create a new macroeconomic theory that takes into account the relationship between finance and the real economy and can more accurately anticipate crises? More...

Inaugural Conference @ King's
The Economic Crisis and the Crisis in Economics

April 8-11, 2010: The first annual plenary conference brought together a cross-section of thinkers to discuss the fundamental roots of the recent global economic crisis and the role that the economics discipline played. Over 200 experts discussed failures of old theory and past policies, and explored avenues into a new paradigm of economic thinking for the 21st century. More...

Campus Outreach Program

INET Executive Director Rob Johnson visits universities all over the country to meet with students to help foster new economic thinking. More...