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4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic

Article By William Lazonick, Matt Hopkins, Ken Jacobson, Lenore Palladino, Mustafa Erdem Sakinç, and Öner Tulum

It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future

What the Government Needs to Do Next

Article By James K. Galbraith

Tax rebates, tax cuts and business bailouts will not solve this crisis. Here’s what’s needed.

Coronavirus Means Zero Hour for the European Union

Article By Thomas Ferguson and Edward J. Kane

If the European Central Bank does not jump to the aid of peripheral countries weakened by the pandemic, the Eurozone could collapse.

MIT Economist on Coronavirus: Young People “Going to Get Squashed”

Article By Lynn Parramore

The younger generation, already saddled with student debt and uncertain jobs, will pay a high price as the crisis unfolds.

Who's Responsible Here?

Article By Tanya Goldman and David Weil

Establishing legal responsibility in the fissured workplace

Let’s Get Real. Economists Have a Sex Problem

Article By Lynn Parramore

Economist and feminist Victoria Bateman reveals some naked truths about the failings of economics.

INET Plenary Rescheduled

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In light of the growing concerns over the coronavirus, we have decided to postpone the INET Plenary to October 13-15, 2020 (originally slated for April 13-15, 2020)

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Learn Economics at Home

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Stuck at home and already bored of Netflix? Then check out our #LearnEconAtHome series of video explainers you can watch from anywhere.

Why Data Is Like Fire

Video Featuring Chen Long

Dr. Chen Long, Director of the Luohan Academy, explains why the digital revolution is so different from the industrial revolution

An 1869 Medical Study Is Still Misdiagnosing Black People

Video Featuring Trevon Logan

Trevon Logan discusses the impact of structural racism in health and economics

Polanyi on Polanyi

Video Featuring Kari Polanyi Levitt

In this series Polanyi reflects on an extraordinary life, and the extraordinary legacy of her family.

Saving Retirement

Video Featuring Teresa Ghilarducci

Is America facing a retirement crisis?

Inequality 101

Video Featuring Branko Milanovic and Arjun Jayadev

Inequality, in many ways, may be the biggest question of our times. And yet it is a topic that is still underexplored in conventional economics curricula.

How The Troika Runs Europe

Video Featuring Nina Eichacker

The European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF are the continent’s austerity police

What Happens When Economics Doesn’t Reflect the Real World?

Video Featuring Anwar Shaikh

Anwar Shaikh talks about the shortcomings of neoclassical economics and alternative frameworks

Economics for People

Video Featuring Ha-Joon Chang

Economics has long been the domain of the ivory tower, where specialized language and opaque theorems make it inaccessible to most people. That’s a problem.

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Working Paper Series

Who’s Responsible Here? Establishing Legal Responsibility in the Fissured Workplace

Paper By Tanya Goldman and David Weil

This article proposes a new “Concentric Circle framework” which would improve workers’ access to civil, labor, and employment rights.

Taxpayer Investment Leads New Drug Discoveries

Paper By Ekaterina Cleary, Matthew Jackson, Andrew Acevedo, and Fred Ledley

New research points to critical role of public funding in drug discoveries and development for the last decade

Modeling Myths: On the Need for Dynamic Realism in DICE and other Equilibrium Models of Global Climate Mitigation

Paper By Michael Grubb and Claudia Wieners

We conclude that representing dynamic realism in such models is as important as – and far more empirically tractable than – continued debate about the monetization of climate damages and ‘social cost of carbon’.

Payment vs. Funding: The Law of Reflux for Today

Paper By Perry G. Mehrling

The central bank today is not just the government’s bank, but also a bankers’ bank, a truly hybrid institution

Is the Most Unproductive Firm the Foundation of the Most Efficient Economy? Penrosian Learning Confronts the Neoclassical Fallacy

Paper By William Lazonick

To get beyond the neoclassical fallacy, economists have to stop relying on constrained-optimization methodology

The Secular Stagnation of Productivity Growth

Paper By Servaas Storm

This paper argues that it is a mistake to dismiss secular demand stagnation as main cause of declining potential growth in the OECD.

Inclusive American Economic History: Containing Slaves, Freedmen, Jim Crow Laws, and the Great Migration

Paper By Trevon Logan and Peter Temin

This paper records the path by which African Americans were transformed from enslaved persons in the American economy to partial participants in the progress of the economy.

The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty

Paper By Tarek Alexander Hassan, Laurence van Lent, Stephan Hollander, and Ahmed Tahoun

Using tools from computational linguistics, we construct new measures of the impact of Brexit on listed firms in the United States and around the world

The Decline of the U.S. Labor Share Across Sectors

Paper By Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz, Codrina Rada, and Rudi von Arnim

This paper provides novel insights on the changing functional distribution of income in the post–war US economy.

The Political Economy of Europe Since 1945: A Kaleckian Perspective

Paper By Joseph Halevi

This paper analyzes the early stages of the formation of the Common Market.

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